Love Hate Relationship by Goodness Shadrach (good books to read for 12 year olds TXT) 📖

"Mom ..."

"No" Vanessa interrupted with a smile "he is my son and I love him but I won't use because he is my son and put you in pain, you deserve better Sasha, you are a nice girl and I know my son. I have never seen him with a girl before and once I heard a rumor that he is gay" she chuckled "of course I didn't believe that but if there is one thing I know is that there is someone in his heart. Although he has never admit that to me but I have always known."

Sasha was shocked at her revelation, so her speculation is true, he loves someone and she must be the owner of the dresses at home, her heart ached at the news but all she could do was smile.

"But what I don't seem to understand is, why can't he go to her? I'm not sure the girl in question even know he loves her, she might be married for all I know" Vanessa continued "but Michael seems to want to live with the love alone or maybe he has told the girl and it was not reciprocated, I can't tell" she looked at Sasha and smiled "that's that, if he doesn't let go of an old love to cherish you, I will even help you and ask for a divorce, he has no right to treat you whatever way he is treating you. How dare he travel without telling you?" She frowned.

That was practically the first time Sasha was seeing her frown but she couldn't worry about that yet, her mind was still thinking on the piece of news Vanessa told her, so Michael has a girl he love, maybe that's why he finds it hard to even acknowledge her, but can she bear to divorce him? She don't know and again, what about the contract, will he still give it to her if she divorce him? Well not just only about the contract, she just can't divorce him, she has waited for a long time to be by his side and she is not giving it up now, she is going to try her best to make her marriage work.

She looked at Vanessa who was watching her settle her thoughts "I think I can still hold on for now, I will wait to know if he can change for me."

Vanessa smiled "what ever you want or decide, just know that you will have me backing you up."

Sasha smiled at that and a warmth feeling flowed in her body, she really love this mother in law of hers "thank you" she bit her lower lip before looking at her again "do you know where he traveled to?"

"When I called him yesterday, he said he was going on a business trip to Amsterdam and will be back in a few days."

"Oh" was the sound Sasha made, Vanessa squeezed her hand and smiled.

Their food arrived then and after eating, Vanessa took her shopping just like she promised.

Three days later, Sasha came back from work only to be frozen at the door when she saw the man lying casually on the couch while flipping through the pages of a magazine "you are back!" She breathed but he didn't even look at her, his hand leisurely flipped the pages as he continued reading. Sasha sighed as she watched him, at least now she knows while he behaves like he do, he has been rejected by his love one, she actually found herself feeling bad for him and also wishing for him to give her a chance to love him, but will he do that? She can't even tell.

She ascended the stairs to their room where she had a quick shower before leaving for the kitchen to make dinner which she ended up eating alone because the man in the house treated her like air.

Sasha couldn't sleep well in the night, she woke up in the midnight and couldn't sleep again, her mind kept wandering wide and she kept tossing and turning on the bed. The man beside her suddenly groaned and got up from the bed, he looked at her with fierce eyes and she shivered, he got out of bed and walked to her side, he grabbed her by the wrist and pulled her out of the bed "what are you doing Michael" she asked shocked as he dragged her.

Michael opened the door and pushed her out before shutting the door on her face, he bolted it and walked back to the bed, he fell on it and rubbed his temple. He was already finding it difficult to sleep with her by his side as his mind kept playing the memory of the night they were together and she was not helping the matter with her tossing and turning, her restlessness was just arousing him the more.

He sighed, at least now, she was no longer a meter away from him, he can easily stop thinking about that night and have a good night sleep, he thought. Sasha stood outside the closed door and sighed, she had actually been thinking of having her own room, she walked into the guest room and fell on the bed. It's a good thing the house keepers always come twice in a week to clean the house, if not the room would have been too dusty for her to settle in, after thinking for a while, she finally drifted back to sleep.

The next day, after Michael left for work, she went into the room and packed all her clothes before moving into the guest room. Michael came home that day and when he didn't see a single thing on her dressing table, he instinctively opened her wardrobe and just as he expected, it was empty, she had moved out of his room, without notice, he became angry and sad, angry because she had moved out of the room, they are husband and wife, why should she move out of his room? Sad because, he knew he was the reason, if he hadn't pushed her out of the room last night, perhaps she wouldn't have moved out and without warning, the room became empty and lonely for him.

Six months later, Sasha was in the office when her phone rang, she looked at the screen and discovered it was her mother in law that was calling, she picked it up "hi mom."