From Rags to Riches: The Untold Saga of the Trillionare

Chapter 4

"Laurel?" Ethan asked in shock, the night has been one with doubtful events and he was no longer sure wether to believe or doubt what his eyes were seeing.

Ethan wasn't who Laurel and her lover was expecting to see. The air around them felt heavy with fear, their breaths uneasy filled with panic, but for some reason, they breathing normalized and clarity and calmness returned to their beings.

"What the fuck happened here?" Ethan fumed with anger. This wasn't a scene any man should see when coming back home - his girlfriend all loved up with another man on their bed.

His breathing became laboured, boiling with rage and fury. Heaven knew the thoughts that invaded his mind were not legal.

Rather than an explanation, Ethan's question was met with a condescending sneer.

"Answer me Goddammit!!" Ethan's voice went high with rage.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Laurel asked, completely ignoring Ethan's question, completely unbothered by Ethan's boiling rage. 

What was his doing there? In his own house? How could he have loved someone like this?

"I was taken captive by gangsters. They wanted a lot of money from me."

"Where did you get money to give them?" Laurel asked with a mocking tone. She knew Ethan wasn't rich, she was his girlfriend after all, she knew him better than most people.

"I didn't. They let me go when they saw I had nothing."

"Of course they did." Laurel chuckled with sarcasm. "And let me guess you need money to settle them so they don't come after you again right?" She added.

"You think I'm lying don't you?" Ethan sighed in defeat when he realized what was going on.

"Of course I know you're lying. You're just trying to leech of me, and get me to give your poor ass money". Laurel poured out with so much ridicule in her tone. That was how she saw Ethan - a parasite.

Laurel's words penetrated Ethan like bullets, piercing and causing damage to his being. As his ear drums took in the words coming out of her mouth, Ethan's face squeezed from disgust and irritation.

She was not only a cheat but also heartless.

"Do you even hear yourself right now?" Ethan began. "If luck wasn't on my side tonight, I would have died just like that where those gangsters held me captive. Yet you have the nerve to not only call me liar but also cheat with another guy in my house?!" Ethan exploded, his eyes narrowed and his voice louder than usual. His irritation and disgust for the immoral couple in front of him was through the roof.

Seeing Ethan blow up, the guy on the bed with jumped up and rushed towards Ethan.

"Watch your fucking mouth!" The guy said as he held Ethan by his shirt's collar.

He pushed him till Ethan's back was back against the wall.

"Get the hell off me you fucking bastard!" Ethan struggled to free himself from the guy's grip but was too weak to do so.

"Leave him Alex, he's not worth it." Laurel interjected as things began to get heated.

"Even the girl you love doesn't think you're worth it." Alex mocked Ethan, his grip still on his collar. "You're a joke, a sad ass loser." Alex rained insults on Ethan.

"Watch it! Or I swear to God I'll..." Ethan threatened.

"You'll what? You can do nothing. The poor are at the mercy of the wealthy. And you are at the bottom of the chain." Alex cut him off and fired him with insult. "You don't deserve someone like Laurel, it's an abomination for you to even be near her."