Chapter 2 - A Demon And Monster

• The hostile and scolding male voice came from an average height young man whose age should be between the range of eighteen to twenty-one years. He was very chubby, ruthless, and domineering. His name is Bennett Orlan, and a younger brother-in-law to Paul Chile.
• “Are you not supposed to be dead by now?”
• “Dead?!” Paul was shocked and pained by Bennett’s utterances. “What do you mean, Bennett? What are you saying? Why are you wishing me death?”
• “Oh, are you pained by my gospel?! Are the dead not far better than you in a million fold?!” Bennett continued to lash out on Paul without considering whether he was hurting him or not. Infact, he wanted Paul to get hurt so that he would run away from their family house and never return again.
• “What happened, brother Bennett? Why are you being so rude?” Paul swallowed his pains, miseries and rejections, asking Bennett why he was lashing out on him.
• Paul pretended as if he was not pained by Bennett's outrageous outburst on him and continued to speak, “Bennett, do you know that we haven't seen each other for three years now? Are you not supposed to at least welcome me back home after three years of suffering miserably in jail because of your own sister? Why are you giving me this cold attitude of yours?”
• Although Paul knew that Bennett never liked him, he thought that his ugly experience had changed him for good. Little did he know that Bennett’s cold attitude towards him had only grown to its prime spreading its tentacles like wildfire over those years of his nightmares in the prison dungeon.
• “Hey You! Will you shut up your foolish stinking mouth now and stop vomiting that nonsense you're saying?! Who's your brother?!” Bennett was utterly boiling.
• Paul's presence was very irritating to him. “For your information, my sister isn't in your class and I can't have you call me your brother again. If you try this nonsense again, I will make sure that you don't leave this place alive. So, be warned!”
• “Bennett, what's going on there? Who are you exchanging words with?” Another voice came from the penthouse and shortly after, a woman sprinted out from the staircase and approached the duo who were at the compound exchanging words with each other.
• The woman has some facial resemblance with Bennett but was by far older than him. Judging her age from the look of her face, one would suggest that she should be around 65 - 70 years.
• Despite the amount of heavy cosmetics which she painted herself with, there were still numerous wrinkle spots holding her face hostage.
• “Mother!” Paul greeted the old woman after she got very close to them.
• The lady was none other than Bennett’s mother. Her name is Elizabeth Orlan. She was also Paul's mother-in-law.
• However, the moment Elizabeth noticed Paul's presence, her wrinkled face contorted in dark frown and she glowered angrily at Paul, saying, “Hold it there! And who is your mother? Haven't I warned you severally that my daughter can't marry a foolish and useless bastard like you? Since you're back from the prison, kindly wait for Ella to return so that she will serve you the divorce documents to sign. And let me warn you, you must accept to sign the divorce terms and conditions very quickly so that my daughter's forthcoming wedding ceremony will go smoothly in two weeks time as planned.”
• Paul's face turned gloomy in a dark frown and his strength left him. He remained rooted in a spot and silently contemplated what his in-laws were saying.
• Are they pranking him or could they be telling the truth?
• It is a known fact that his in laws never liked him for once. He had for long being faced with rejections, humiliation, mockery and even got reduced to a mere go-in-between for the members of their household, ever since he got married to their daughter and lived with them in their family.
• However, his beautiful wife, Miss Ella Orlan loved and admired him just like he does to her.
• ‘Could it possibly be that Ella had betrayed our love and plans to remarry another person as stated by her parents? Who could that be? Can Ella do such a thing to me even when I shouldered to suffer miserably in the prison dungeon in a bid to protect her from external attacks?’ Paul was lost in a school of thought with sheer reeking pains that kept his mind hostage.
• After some minutes, he opened his mouth and said, “Mother, you shouldn't be the person deciding for both Ella and myself. Ella and I have no plans of divorcing each other yet.”
• Peeew! Peeew!
• While Paul was speaking, a black sedan blared its horn and drove into the compound. Then a tall, curvaceous, slender, beautiful lady, who was dressed in glamorous clothes alighted from the backseat of the car alongside an average height and chubby young man. They were holding each other in a very intimate manner while laughing happily as if they were a couple.
• Paul's heart drenched in pain and confusion. He was immediately left heartbroken.
• The sight of how intimate the couple were, stung worse than a slap on Paul's broken heart.
• These two people were none other than Miss Ella Orlan and Mr Bryan Knot.
• While Miss Ella Orlan is Paul's beloved wife, Mr Bryan Knot was the same guy who had illegally locked him up to rot in the underground prison dungeon simply because he earlier confronted him for sexually harassing his wife in the public.
• Holding his anger and displeasure, Paul approached Ella and said, “Welcome back home, darling.”
• Meanwhile, Ella was surprised and at the same time displeased to see Paul. Instead of responding to Paul's blissful and warm welcome, she asked with a tinge of disdain in her voice, “Paul, when did you come back and why didn't you inform me that you were coming today before returning?”
• “Darling, is that a problem? I didn't inform you of my freedom from the prison and returned because I wanted to surprise you with them,” replied Paul.
• Pointing his middle finger at Bryan, Paul continued, “By the way, why are you with this demon and monster?”
• Slap! Slap!
• Before Paul could even complete his statement, some painful, dirty and thunderous slaps landed on his both cheeks like thunderstorms.
• The slaps were from Elizabeth Orlan. Elizabeth opened her palm very wide and landed some hot slaps on Paul after he pointed his middle finger at Bryan Knot whilst calling him a demon and monster. She then glowered angrily at him, saying, “And who are you referring to as demon and monster? How dare you address my soon to be capable son-in-law as a demon and monster?! Fool, I can see that you're tired of living. Aren't you?!”