The Son-in-law's Revenge

Chapter Seven

With a rage incomparable to the one he had felt on the evening he had caught Bianca's cheating ass, he threw the bottle he was holding at the wall once again. He grabbed his laptop and tossed it in the same direction. He yelled at the top of his lungs and his door flew open, revealing two terrified faces, Cora and the maid who had previously come up to clean. 

He could see it in the eyes of the maid. She thought he was crazy, while the eyes of his sister held anger and irritation. Cora turned away from him to look at the mess he had created behind him. When her eyes fell on the laptop, she walked further into the room and bent down to pick up the laptop. The laptop was already broken, with the screen divided in half, the top half was working and showed the headline of what angered Elijah, while the bottom half had gone dark. 

Cora walked over to Elijah, and slowly read aloud the text that her eyes had landed on. "The beautiful heiress, Bianca Gardini, and the most sought-after billionaire Fred Harkins tie the knot." 

A sinister smile appeared on Cora's face. "Did I not tell you that these people are living their best life, and everything about you has been long forgotten?" 

Elijah's nose flared, "So you knew already?" 

"Oh no, I didn't. But it's good to know that I wasn't wrong about what I said." Cora stated as she placed the already damaged laptop on the table in front of Elijah, turning it at the perfect angle so that if Elijah moved his eyes just a little, they would immediately be on the headlines. 

"How could they do this to me, Cora?" 

"You did this to yourself. Yes, I know they started it, but it's in your hands to either finish it or start a new chapter."

Elijah rolled himself to the large mirror that was placed in one corner of his room. He could see the maid's reflection in the mirror. Elijah could see an expression of fear mixed with curiosity on the maid's face. Did she think he was going to break it too? 

He stared back at himself for a while. He examined himself, from the dark curls on his head because he had not let any barber touch him, to his hazel eyes and then his beard which was once a clean stubble. He continued to study himself, and then finally his eyes fell on his feet that were on the footrest of the wheelchair. 

Elijah took a deep breath and held it in for a while, before slowly releasing it. He lay his hands on the armrest of his wheelchair. Then slowly he pulled his legs off the footrest and placed them on the cream rug that had been used in decorating his room. With controlled movements, he gripped the armrest of the wheelchair to lift himself, but he fell back into the chair. 

At Elijah’s display, Cora and the maid moved closer, a few meters away from their original spot, but Elijah quickly raised his hands and shook his head. He tried four different times and was met with the same outcome. He opened his mouth and let out a sigh, the ligament at the side of his neck was pulsating. One more time Elijah placed his hands on the armrest. 

He searched for Cora's face in the mirror and met an expressionless face. Elijah would have loved to see something, anything on her face. Sometimes he wondered how a 20-year-old behaved so much like an 80-year-old. A look passed between brother and sister, and Cora nodded at him, giving him the motivation to try again. He could see her lips moving in the mirror, forming the words "It is time to repay the ones who hurt you."

Elijah glanced at his reflection and replayed his sister's words in his head. Then he raised his voice and declared, "I am Elijah Morris, and it's time to repay those who hurt me." He seized the armrest so firmly that for a moment he feared that a vein could pop, but that did not stop him. Elijah used his strength, will, and a renewed thirst for revenge to propel himself up. 

This time he stood just long enough to look up and smile before falling back into his chair. The smile on his face stayed even after he took out his phone from his shirt pocket and dialed a number. He held the phone to his ear and said "It's time."