“You have cheated me, Robert” Angelina screamed at Robert.
“Don’t yell at me. This is what you have now and you will have to stay here,” Robert replied coldly.
“Why did you bring me here? You promised me a life of luxury,” Angelina asked, her voice shaking.
“Luxury? Ha! You were blinded by your ambition. You thought you deserved it all, You, yourself, trapped you in this.” Robert sneered.
“Now stop this drama and sit here otherwise I will have to use some force to silence you,” Robert threatened.
Angelina was silenced on hearing this because she knew it didn’t take much time for him to be converted into a feral animal. As she has suffered his animality many times in the last 30 days.
Robert left the house closing the door from outside. Angelina was sitting in distress. She was sobbing in a degenerated slumy house all alone. Looking into the house was sobering her further. This was not what she dreamt.
“This is all your fault, Angelina. Your greed has brought you here,” she muttered to herself.
She remembered how much her sister had restrained her but she didn’t pay heed to their pieces of advice.
“I told you so,” her sister’s words echoed in her mind.
Her life shifted 180 degrees in a month. She was a jolly and jocular girl belonging to a middle class. She was an ambitious girl who wanted to enjoy the princess-like life of that time. It was her over-ambitious nature that made her fall prey to a predator like Robert. She was shown some green gardens by Robert in which she was to be treated like a princess. This was not the only but anyone could be bamboozled by the way Robert made her feel special.
Robert used to come dressed in a beautiful suit. He used to take her to food stalls and buy her expensive dresses.
“Welcome to your new home,” Robert had said, his eyes gleaming with deceit.
In those deceiving imaginations, all the wealth, pomp, and affection of Robert belonged to her only.
“You deserve it all, my love,” he would say, his voice dripping with false affection.
He was giving her a princess treatment and what else did she want more?
It was she who asked him to take her to his paradise and didn’t care about any of her family members.
Her sister was an intelligent girl who forbade her many times from Robert but she started thinking that her sister envied her.
“I was so blind,” Angelina cried out in despair.
She wasn’t able to forget that day when Robert opened his reality to her.
He was a poor boy and all this dilemma he created was to attract Angelina to him. He used to borrow money and dress to enthrall Angelina as it was his passion to attract beauty.
Angelina was shocked at the unconsciousness when she saw those slums for the first time.
“Why have we come here?” Angelina asked, her voice trembling.
“This is where I live and this is where you would live as well,” Robert replied, his eyes cold.
She wanted to run but she couldn’t as she was far away from her country. And now all this was her fate. She perceived Robert wrong as he was not what he was ostensibly showing and now all she had was repentenance.
This is my writing for #inkwell #fictionalwriring prompt