Chapter 165: Chapter 165
Mrs Richmond was seething. She was angry that her husband had brought this type of negative exposure to the family.
She was going to deal with him. She only hoped that they would win the case. The way their attorney was going about it gave her confidence but she had also heard that Mr. Hoberman was very good and at the last minute when everyone had given up hope, he turned the tables in favour of his clients but she was going to keep her fingers crossed but afterwards, Rodney would be told who was boss.
Imagine him going after a girl he had discarded to keep the news away from her, only to go after her later because she had confessed to him that she had known all the while of his affairs and of Nancy's pregnancy.
As they drove home, she kept speaking and expressing her displeasure at his recent behaviour.
Her father and brothers had deemed it beneath their status to be present at such a proceeding.
'Can you tell me the reason you went back to that ant of a girl?' she asked for the nth time.
Rodney did not bother answering his wife because he had cooked up a reason to please her and had said it for the zillionth time but she had continued asking and he was just not in the mood for her tantrums.
If she had not tried to prove to him that she was the man while he was the woman, he would not have got himself into this shit in the first place and she was still blaming him for his actions.
If she wanted to go raving and ranting, then that was her business and not his.
She ranted so much and for so long that he got fed up listening to her because he was already down with a headache. All the acting in the court had been too stressful.
He was not happy with the way things had turned out. There had been no time he had wanted to harm Nancy physically but Maze had felt he owed it to him to avenge what he felt was a slight to his master and he could not fault him his loyalty. Such people were rare to come by.
He hoped that his lawyer could come up with a convincing explanation for the attempt at the hospital.
That had had his approval because he had tried to avoid this law case but it had backfired.
He opened his eyes. He had shut it for long because of the pain he was feeling in them.
The headache seemed to be affecting his sight.
He had escaped into his thoughts but thinking in itself was causing the headache to increase and he decided to stop for the moment for his sanity and health, only to realise that his wife was still ranting. He could take it no more. He had been patient enough with this woman. It had to stop now, her influence on him.
'Oh shut up! Don't you get tired of talking?' he shouted, staring at her with so much venom and hatred that she flinched and had she been standing, she would have taken a step back in fright.
When had he got the guts to speak to her this way?
'You have been repeating the same thing for days on end and I have tried to sooth you but you do not value that. You are just too proud of your family connections. Your father and brothers are no saints themselves, you know. Just because their voices are yet to come out into the open does not make them better than I am but you will not crucify them but you are ready for the worst to happen to me and I, the father of your children and that is if that is not just my imagination seeing what you have shown me of your activities lately.
Those children may just be someone else's. What if your activities come to light? How much better or worse would you be from me? So please keep those filthy lips of yours shut and let me have some peace!'
Matilda Richmond could not have believed that Rodney could say all these to her. The scared cat of yesterday was b now very bold and brave.
'Was I the one who asked you to spoil the tranquility of our marriage with your uncontrollable desires?
You thought me to do to you all that you had been doing to me. I thought that no one could be luckier than I until I found out about your debauchery.
I nearly died but I realised that no one was worth dying for, definitely not you whom I gave everything and you decided to pay me back evil for good. Infidelity for all my loyalty to you.
It took me time but I felt that what was good for the goose was good for the gander and that was what had kept my sanity.
I also made it my mission to know about all your affairs and I could have gone on pretending but I decided it was time you knew that your activities were not as hidden as you might think', she said triumphantly.
'You did well and you insulted me in the process asking me what I could do and I decided to show you what I was capable of. Campbell's involvement with Nancy did not cause me to go after her like I told you previously. I went for her to spite you because I hate you. Did you hear that? I loath you! Get that into your thick skull', Rodney said with such vehemence that Matilda was not in doubt of the sincerity behind those words.
'It is good that you have brought your feelings to light. You just watch what I do next. That you even doubted the paternity of my children is enough scorn from you to lead me into dealing with you. You put the family name to shambles, creating a scandal. We still did not abandon you but ate doing all we can to salvage the situation and get you home free instead of allowing to roast for the crimes you have committed and the way to show your appreciation is to express your hatred for me and my family and doubt the paternity of your children but you are ready to claim an illegitimate child of yours from a whore? This is wonderful, just wonderful!' she said and looked straight ahead as the car drove on. They did not say any other thing to each other till they got home. Matilda already regretted her outburst. She was grateful though that it was just the chauffeur that was with them in the car and that they had not washed their dirty linen before other people. She believed that she could trust the drivers loyalty and discretion to keep whatever he heard to himself. He knew on what side his bread was buttered afterall.