Chanel dramatically pulled a chair in front of Annabelle and sat facing her.

"I do not have the time for drama and hysterics, but I must confess that I had dreamt of this day and it's finally here. I told you, that in any fight, I always win at the end. And I never let anyone take what's mine. You should have remained in that slum with your bastards..."

Annabelle's eyes flashed in anger at the mention of her kids. "Don't you dare..."

But was silenced with a hard slap from Chanel.

"You do not speak to me in that manner bitch." She snapped. "You left for over five years after you cheated on my man..."

"I was set up and you know it." Annabelle said, glaring at Dominic who shamefully looked away.

"Whatever," Chanel continued. "I love him. I was there for him all those years even though I knew he was secretly searching for your ass." She eyed Annabelle in hatred. "What he sees in you is what I cannot understand. But you will disappear again. And this time," she brought her face closer. "It'll be for good."

Annabelle gasped inwardly as she wondered what they were going to do to her but she refused to show fear.

Chanel smirked evilly and got up to pour herself a drink from the bottle she had came in with. "I'm going to enjoy watching this."

"What are you going to do to me?"

Annabelle asked.

"We're giving you two options." Dominic stepped in. "Come with me as I leave this country for a faraway one. You have to leave Maxwell and your children behind and come start a new life elsewhere with me or..." he shrugged letting her imagine what the second option would be.

"Are you crazy?" She asked in shock.

"For you Anna, I can be." He said softly. "I love you. Always have. But every single time, you choose Maxwell over me. What does he have that I don't? I have always been there for you even when he pushed you away!"

"While you were sleeping with my supposed younger sister and scheming with her and her mother?"

Annabelle raged.

"Oh come on I had always known she wasn't your biological sister." He said without remorse.

"And that should be an excuse to someone you claim you love? You knew they weren't my real family and you never mentioned it to me! You were sleeping with her and plotting evil against me yet you claim to love me? You are a sick bastard." She spat.

"Annabelle..."

"I'm not surprised that these women would do this to me," she continued. "But if I was told that you would be part of this, I would never have believed in a million years. To think that I even let you near my children!" She took a deep breath. "Dominic as I told you the other night, you can never be half the man that David is and I would be a fool to ever love or marry someone like you!"

"Annabelle!" He lifted his hand and slapped her hard sending her to fall sideways with the chair to the ground. She was tied up so she wasn't able to shield the fall.

His eyes widened. "Oh lord, I didn't mean to, Annabelle, I'm so sorry. You bring out the worst in me!"

Chanel rolled her eyes. "What an idiot."

"I regret the day I met you Dominic." Annabelle said as he helped her back up. "I regret ever sharing any form of intimacy with you as a girlfriend."

"I am doing all these because I love you Anna." He wailed.

"No you're doing all these because you're obsessed with me and that turned you to a psycho." She said gently. "You need to stop this, Dominic. We can never be together. I do not love you."

He was quiet for a moment.

"The lull before the storm." Chanel muttered with a smirk.

"No!" Dominic snapped.

"Called it." Chanel grinned.

"I refuse to accept it," Dominic crazed on. "If I can't have you, nobody will! I'll kill you then I'll kill that bastard Maxwell!"

"Nope," Chanel cut in. "You can kill her but you're not touching a single hair on my man's head."

"It doesn't have to end this way Dominic." Annabelle said gently. "You will meet another woman who would love and cherish you more than I ever can."

"I do not desire any other woman but you." He said stubbornly.

"But that didn't stop you from sleeping with Lydia." She pointed out. "You two would even make a good couple."

Chanel laughed and Lydia's face became red with anger.

"Damn you Annabelle." She gritted. "I for one, would like to see you cut off from life itself."

"I'm sure you would." Annabelle replied with a small smile. "But just know that I never did anything to you and your mother to deserve these from you. I had always done my best to be a good sister and daughter to you both but it was never enough. I can't understand why you two hate me so much. It wasn't my fault that dad chose me to marry David. Y'all even had to watch me suffer in the early weeks of my marriage and after the divorce. None of you here knew what I went through, what I had to endure as a lonely pregnant woman and how I raised my children to the stage that they are today. I suffered, I have literally gone through a lot of suffering all my life and the one time I'm experiencing happiness, you all want to take it away from me? You are the real evil! And even if you kill me, you will never get away with it."

Everyone was quiet for a while then Monalisa started clapping.

"Nice speech. But it won't make us change our minds. I will enjoy killing you the way I killed your foster father." She said menacingly and everyone's eyes turned to her in shock.

"Y-you killed dad?" Annabelle whispered.

"Yes I sent the assassins." She said drily. "The target was never Mr Maxwell. I only instructed them to make it seem so."

"You killed dad? But why?" Lydia asked with wide eyes.

"I had thought his boss, Maxwell was attracted to me at that time with the way he sometimes looked at me, so I felt he would never make a move on me so long as his employee was on his way. I wanted to make it easier for him to come to me." She said.

"You've been having an affair with David's dad?" Lydia asked.

"I wish," she said in disappointment. "The hard head was never attracted to me. I only read meaning into what wasn't there. I had even tried to seduce him once but failed totally."

"Wow." Lydia said simply.

"What a woman." Chanel shook her head.

Dominic was quiet and just gaped at her.

"Monalisa, you are evil and I hope you rot in hell because that's where you belong." Annabelle said in pain and anger.

"Oh you'd be going there before me sweetheart." She smirked. "Dominic, do what you like with her before we decide on how we're going to get rid of her. I know you've been dying to feel her once more." She winked at him and he smirked. "We'll be in the other other room."

The three women left and Dominic faced her.

"What are you going to do to me?"

He licked his lips. "What I've been dying to do for a very long time."

He started to untie only her legs.

"Get away from me you sick dirty bastard." She tried to kick him but he kept dodging and punched her hard to keep her still and she saw stars. ✨

Then he tore at her her shirt and pants, exposing some parts of her underwear and more skin. His eyes darkened with desire as he took her in. He forced his lips on hers as she weakly tried to fight him with only her legs as her hands were still bound and his fists rendering her weak.

Then he forced her legs open and placed himself between her as he fumbled with the zip of his pants while she let out a scream and kept struggling.

She would never feel clean if she let him have his way. But he was stronger and her hands were bound. She didn't have any other option as she subconsciously surrendered.

She wished David would just appear from nowhere, lift the damned man off her and throw him on the floor, then punch his face severally.

She wished. But if only wishes were horses. She closed her eyes.

"Mr Maxwell that's enough, you're going to kill him."

"Bloody bastard!"

She heard his voice and she forced her eyes open to see him throwing hard punches on Dominic's face while a police officer tried to stop him.

She blinked to be sure that she wasn't seeing things. Was David really here?

"Oh my poor baby." Ingrid rushed to her end embraced her hard with tears on her face, while another police man started to untied her.

"Mum?"

"Yes my love, I'm here now." She cried, holding her cheeks tenderly. "I'm so sorry my darling." She embraced her again.

"What's going on here?"

Ingrid stilled when she heard the voice then she turned to look at the source and scowled deeply at Monalisa.

Monalisa took a step back. "I-Ingrid."

She slowly let go of her daughter and walked over to Monalisa.

"You bitch!"

Before anyone could say 'Jack Robinson', she punched her hard with all of her strength and Monalisa was sent flying to the floor while the other police officer held onto her as he had succeeded in taking David away from Dominic.

"That's for my daughter and Matthew, you wicked witch!"

David rushed to Annabelle and took her in his arms, pressing a kiss on her forehead as her pain got to him.

She looked up at him with teary eyes. "David..."

"Yes baby, I'm here for you now." He said in hurt. "I'm so sorry, so sorry I couldn't find you earlier. I shouldn't have let this happen to you..."

He kept on rocking her in his arms and consoling her while her mother insulted the life out of Monalisa who was already been cuffed and was been led away with the other three.

"David David please you can't let take me! I love you!" Chanel screamed as they led her out of the room with the others but he paid them no need and just focused on the woman in his arms.

"We need to get you to the hospital." He said and lifted her in his arms while Ingrid followed them out in tears and the worst names for Monalisa and her crew.