Humiliated

Martina pov

I can't go and see my mother in my condition. She needs me to be fit and motivated more than I'm depressed. There is only one thing to do right now. It's true that I had promised myself that I wouldn't suffer such humiliation again, but I'm ready for anything to save my mother. After much effort to contain myself, I went to see my mother and told her that I was going to the pharmacy and that it was going to take a long time before I come back. That's how I went to the agency to take the bus to Edéa. Arrived at the agency, I take the taxi which leaves me in front of my father's dealership. I go in and I see the crowd at the house. Looks like there's a party because the moms and other women were cooking in the yard.

"What are you looking for, you filthy bitch?" Said Paula's mother, my father's second wife, as she walked towards me while I was still at the entrance to our concession.

"I... Is daddy there?" I stammered.

"What do you want with him? It seems to me that he ordered you never to set foot here again!?" She tells me in an aggressive tone.

"Please mum, it's urgent! I need to talk to him." I responded by pleading.

"No! You're not going to see it!" She thundered without taking pity at my pleas. I realize she won't want to let me in. I sprint towards my father's quarters.

"Come back here, silly girl!" She screams behind me, but that doesn't slow me down.

The women who were there watched the show curiously, but I didn't care. I arrive at the door of my father's apartment and I knock. I hear him asking me to come in. I find him chatting with his little brother who lives in Kribi. I imagine that if he is here, it means that there is an important event taking place, but that does not interest me. I didn't come here for this, I have a more pressing matter to deal with. As soon as Dad sees me, his cheerfulness disappears and his face fills with fury.

"What are you doing here prostitute?" His insult breaks my heart, but I remain calm.

"Dad, I need your help please. Mum is hospitalized in Douala and we need to operate on her urgently. We don't have the means for that. operation money in an emergency, she will die." I beg him in tears.

"Your brothel money can't help you? Get out of my house!" He thunders at me with a contemptuous look.

"Charles, wait it's still your family despite everything. If it's about health, you have to act even if they did what to you." My uncle intervenes.

It was my uncle who seemed more supportive and was trying to talk to my dad in order to bring him to his senses."

"You did say it's my family, so I'm going to handle it my way. I'd appreciate it if you didn't interfere." Answers my father to his brother who is immediately silent.

"Dad, I'm begging you! I'll do whatever you want but help us." I kneel in front of my father and stop his foot crying. I almost scream begging him.

"Don't make me bully you you bitch!"

I can't handle what he says and I cling to his foot. He gets up and kicks me with his foot, knocking me down a good distance.

"Charles!" Said my uncle coming towards my direction.

"Stay out of it Luc!" Order my father who comes towards me and drags me from his living room out of the gate under the amazed and curious gaze of those who were there in the yard. He throws me out of the gate and I feel my foot aching. I come back in tears to beg him, but he closes the door in my face. I'm in so much pain! I get up staggering, then I take the way back. I don't know what to do right now. What if Steve was the only choice I could turn to? I know it's sado-masochism to turn to him, but I have to save Mom, even if it means my own life. Do I even have a life first? It's been taken from me for a year and a half now. I will go to my executioner if he can help me, because I have no other way out. So I resolve to hail a taxi to go to Steve's. As soon as I arrive at the crossroads, I see a car coming to park and I recognize Steve's car. I approach happy because he made my job easier. But as soon as I get to the level of the car, I see him kissing a woman. Looking closer, the woman is none other than Paula.

"Steve, Paula?!!" I exclaimed flabbergasted by this scene worthy of a Judas film.

"Ah... Martina! Did you come to our wedding? I forgot to send you the invitations, but it's good as you're here." Said my sister quite naturally, taunting me. I look at Steve who seems embarrassed.

"Steve, I would like to talk to you." I tell him, staring him straight in the eyes as he flees mine. I didn't even try to play Paula's game of provocation.

"We are listening to you." Answers Paula who seems determined not to leave us alone.

Paula

Martina thinks she's wise, but I'll never leave her alone with my Steve.

"I would like us to speak alone please Paula." She asks me, giving me a pleading look.

"Sorry dear little sister, but in two days we will be married at the town hall. So Steve it's me, you can talk to him in my presence." I respond emphatically. Martina is shocked, but plays it strong and quickly pulls herself together.

"Very good! Mom is in the hospital and we need to operate on her urgently. We are asking for 400 thousand at least but I don't have that amount. I went to see dad and he kicked me out. I don't I have no other way out. You are my only recourse right now. Dad kicked me out of the house and won't help me. Will you lend me this amount? I promise to pay you back every last bit of money. penny." She trying not to cry.

I'm not at all surprised by my father's reaction. What Martina doesn't know is that my mother worked mystically on him. We had tried to do this before, but it didn't work. The marabout had said that my father has too strong a spirit. But since he saw Martina being raped thanks to my plan and anger took hold of him, a door opened and we took advantage of it. Now my father gives in to our wishes and it is thanks to the work of the marabout that he did not oppose my marriage to N'sang's son.

"Very well, wait for me, I'll go to the bank to withdraw this sum immediately." Said Steve to Martina whose face lit up when she heard that.

"Sorry?" I retorted.

"I said that..."

"I heard you, sir! Who do you want to help them as? What tie binds you to her?" I retort ruthlessly.

"But she's your sister!" Answers Steve's idiot.

"I forbid you to do anything for her! And then, from today, consider another person, not my sister!" I ordered Steve and turned to Martina.

"And you, it's the last time you trouble my husband with your miseries! Your mother has only to die, I don't give a shit! Afterwards, you could well die of grief, that's fine with me. "Would be fine. But let me never see your face in my life!"

Martina turns her eyes flooded with tears and leaves. She just has to die, I don't give a fuck.