Kayla's POV
"Sign these papers!" Eric, my husband yelled, throwing a stack of papers in my face. Instantly, I bent down a bit and picked them, curious about what they were.
My eyes widened in surprise as I realized what the papers were all about.
"Are these truly documents for divorce?" I asked in a composed tone, trying my best to conceal the pain I was feeling.
"She's not just a leech and a poor miserable orphan but also a very daft ugly-looking overweight woman who finds it very hard to comprehend things!" Agatha, my mother-in-law mocked, causing his son to burst into laughter.
My eyes grew misty and before I knew it, I had already started shedding tears.
"Your crocodile tears will not save you, Kayla. Sign these papers and leave our lives," he barked.
"Why?"
"Why do you want to divorce me? Why do you want to end our three years of marriage just like that? Where did I go wrong?" I managed to ask amidst tears.
"You had just one job to do, Kayla. Just one job but you blew it. Take the blame for Jason's crime but you declined with the excuse of your license being at stake. We all know that you're not going to be in jail for more than three years but you refused regardless. Even with your overweight and ugly self, My mother and I have done nothing but love you. We accepted you the way you're knowing fully well that it wasn't this way from the onset but what did you do? You paid us back with evil. Kayla, you are such an ingrate and I hate you for this. Just sign the papers and go away!" He sneered.
Cleaning my tears with my pinky finger, I knelt before my husband and mother-in-law. "Please, don't send me away, I have nowhere else to go. I can do any other thing apart from going to jail in place of your brother," I implored
"If you can't do that for us then you are of no use to us! Just sign the goddamn papers, you ugly fat fck!" Mrs. Agatha yelled.
I got up from the floor, settling on the sofa. With my fingers trembling, I reached out for the pen on the table before me, turning the pages of the papers and trying to read through them.
"You're wasting time, Kayla," Eric warned, pacing around the room.
"Eric, please don't have me do this. I love you with everything I have," I pleaded.
My mother-in-law burst into laughter, throwing her legs up in the air. "You amaze me, silly woman,"
Ignoring her, I dumped the papers and pen and rose from the sofa, enclosing the distance between Eric and me.