Chapter 15: Impotent
Rodrigo headed to the hospital. He needed to see his personal doctor. He wants to know if anything was wrong with him. Camilla isn’t pregnant, why?
Joel has closed for the day, his chauffeur and himself alone was in the car, he felt weak, at the words of his mother. He was going ahead with Camilla and there’s nothing anyone could do about it.
His doctor was more than happy to see him. He was glad Rodrigo stopped by. He had been the major sponsor for his hospital and through his help, the hospital was rated the best health centre in the country.
Dr Walter brought him to his office. As soon as they sat, Rodrigo said he was to be examined. Dr Walter asked him what he was suffering from or why he wanted to be examined.
Rodrigo said he wants to know why he couldn’t get his girlfriend pregnant. He is sure nothing was wrong with Camilla and she doesn’t use contraceptives.
When Walter heard, he smiled. He told Rodrigo that nothing was wrong with him. Such a healthy looking man couldn’t be sterile or impotent.
He asked him a few questions and Rodrigo answered. Walter said if his answers were accurate that he gave, then he is free. He was not having issues or challenges. But Rodrigo insisted, he wants to be examined.
Walter said ok and sent him to the laboratory department. Soon Rodrigo returned and the doctor received the report on his system. He went through it and chuckled.
“I have already told President Campbell that you are perfectly fine. There’s nothing wrong with you at all. The report showed that you are perfectly fine” Walter said.
Rodrigo said ok. He hoped he would be right. As he walked out of the hospital into his car, he was concluding that the only reason then is because he wasn’t working hard enough.
He would work harder next time. As his chauffeur drove him home, his phone started ringing. He looked and saw it was Camilla, he smiled and then answered his phone:
Eduardo Anderson arrived home that evening, he was impressed with the surveillance recording he received from his bodyguard.
Jenny was dressed already in her nightwear when Eduardo returned. She came downstairs to welcome, and asked to push his wheelchair to his room.
But he refused. He saw her white milky skin. The transparent curves beneath and the open cleavage at the upper side of her chest. And he looked away, he felt her attractive.
“Wear a more recent dress and Mee me for dinner,” Eduardo instructed, he beckoned to his assistant to wheel him to his room.
Jenny looked embarrassed. She wasn’t deliberate with her dressing. She only wore what she needed to wear at the time. After getting married and she got into the house, she discovered that the wardrobe was stuck with different designer clothes. Latest and expensive clothes and jewelleries, shoes to match.
But she’s not used to such an expensive lifestyle, at least since the calamity that befell her parents. Her father died, her mother in a coma for years. All their properties and Riche’s have been spent on sustaining her mother’s life, that is what her uncle and his wife told her anyways.
She wasn’t interested in wearing the clothes and still put on her usual dress that morning. This night wear was the one she bought that evening when she was returning home.
If she returned to her former home to dress, her aunt and her daughter Betty would mock her and ridicule her husband more. That was why she decided to buy this one. It was cheap but she liked it.
She went to her room and changed into jeans and a long turtle neck blouse. She seemed to be deliberate. It was a little oversized but still, she wore it like that. Eduardo wants her to be decent, she was dressed decent Indeed.
She came downstairs and waited for him. Eduardo Anderson on the other hand, shut the door after his assistant left and stood up from the wheelchair.
He stretched his legs and arms freely. This disguise was working for him. He was indeed involved in an accident but he was never injured internally to cause a spinal cord injury.
He takes it. He was being followed, someone was after his life and the best way to go about and make the fellow see him as impotent was faking his impotency.
First, his sister was taken away from his mother when she was born. Now he was being targeted and would have finished him off, hadn’t he been pretending to be cripple.
His brother was chased, to be followed and he pretended to be his brother, save him and nearly got killed, if that lady,… what’s her name again… saved him.
They already know he was cripple. So seeing him walking, they readily took him to be his brother and wanted to destroy him. He would remain like this until he unveiled who the perpetrators were.
He strode into the bathroom and had a quick shower. His wife was waiting downstairs. His wife only in name but not Indeed. He doesn’t love anyone. He doesn’t have that thing for girls.
He suddenly became temperamental, a condition he takes as well. It is only normal that someone who has his legs perfectly in time past, now uses a wheelchair, totally depending on others for his movement. He would become temperamental, to avoid people feeling pity for him.
He was hostile to people around him and became picky. He was doing all these to make people stay away from him. The more people stay away from him, the easier it is for him to keep his secrets.
He married for formalities and to make his unknown enemy see him as being useless if they never saw her pregnant. That is his target. When he was done, he would divorce her straight ahead.
After taking his shower, he sat on his wheelchair and wheeled it himself to the door. He opened it and was pushing himself towards the stairs when Jenny saw him.
Without waiting to be called, she walked up to him and helped him. Eduardo Anderson didn’t even say thank you nor appreciate her. He frowned and remained expressionless.
She helped him to the dinning and the cook came to serve their dinner. When she was done, she excused the couple, leaving them both alone.
Eduardo Anderson raised his head and saw that Jenny was quietly having her dinner. She seemed not to notice his reluctance.
“Where were you today?” Eduardo asked, placing his hands below his chin. Staring Jenny, with expressionless face.
Jenny was taking a glass of juice to her mouth when she paused, she looked surprised. She thought he wouldn’t know she went out. She must be stupid to think he would not ask the servants to monitor her movement.
“I went out” she replied and drank from the juice. She was going to place it down when Eduardo said ” of course I know you went out. Where were you?” He asked again.
Jenny looked up at him and saw him staring at her expressionlessly. Should she tell him that her mother was sick and in a coma for two years? No, that information is not necessary. She would simply say she went to the hospital.
“I went to the hospital” she answered simply when he asked again “to do what?”. Jenny sighed. Eduardo was being difficult. Had she started expressing his true character now.
“I went to see my… ehhh.. I went to see someone” Jenny answered, feeling choked up with his inquisitiveness. He wants to know everything she does.This belongs to NôvelDrama.Org: ©.
“That someone you went to see has no name or gender?” Eduardo insisted, this time his voice was raised slightly more than usual.
“I don’t want you to know who I went to see. Since I don’t want to tell you, let it be” Jenny was blunt. She doesn’t feel like eating anymore.
“You are my wife and I deserve to know everything about you. You answer my questions and don’t ever talk back to me again” he thundered.
This is not him. He is not fond of being a bully. But he wants her to dislike him so, it doesn’t get difficult for her when he opted for divorce. He knew he had never been in love and might never fall for her.
“You are my husband doesn’t mean you should mistake me for a servant. The relationship I have with you is man and wife, not master and servant!” Jenny declared.
She stood up and was going teqve when Eduardo asked ” Where do you think you are going?” He demanded. He glared at her with hostility.
“You are choking me with your unfriendliness. I will just live if you try to say something annoying again” Jenny declared but returned to sit down.
Eduardo did say anything for a while until he said “this cloth you wear is shabby. Why wear this to sit before me?”
Jenny hissed between gritted teeth. ” Didn’t you say I should dress decently?” She asked him. She was going to teach him how to treat a woman.
” So, is this a decent dressing that you know?” He asked. What is wrong with this wife of his? She talks back at him and actually plays rude to him.
” Yes. This is decent dressing” Jenny retorted back at him. There was a long time of silence. No one talked to the other.
No wonder she was insulted because of her shabby clothes. He had stuck her wardrobe with good, expensive and latest clothes, why would she still be putting on something so shabby, not dignifying her as Young eldest madam of the Anderson family.
It will bounce back at him. He May not love her nor care about her appearance, but because she is now carrying the title of Eduardo’s Wife, he should show a little concern so he wouldn’t lose face before friends and family.
He was watching her from his split vision, he was wondering if she was the same woman who almost strangles another woman because she said he was cripple and impotent. She made it sound as if he had slept with her.
He must find out who that fellow was that she went to see in the hospital. Why doesn’t she want to tell him about the fellow. He would know, whether she tells him or not.
When the meal ended, Eduardo said “I want you to understand something, this marriage is existing for one singular purpose: “to accompany me to the dining table” he declared flippantly as if that’s the best she can be useful for.
“I deserve more regards than being a companion to the dinning”Jenny snapped at him. Is that the sole purpose of bringing her into his home? Has she been brought so low to that? Her mother’s health condition had plunged her into such a detestable life.
“That is my reason for marriage. And if you don’t agree with that, let me know so I can sign the divorce papers” Eduardo threatened.
Jenny flawed up. He can’t threaten her like that. She glared at him and yelled ” you think I am happy to be stuck here? That I love being married to you?
You are exactly what I heard. You are mean and have no regards for others. You are physically challenged doesn’t make you disrespect others. I wasn’t the one engaged to you, and you know that.
If I had an option to save my mother, I wouldn’t have been here! If my father hadn’t died, I would not be living here like someone who has no option but being forced into a marriage. I want to leave you as soon as I can, ok?” She stood up, sobbing and walked away.
Eduardo caressed his slightly grown beard. Now he got it. She was forced into the marriage probably by her family members. That was because her mother was in a certain condition and maybe this marriage was the only option left. Her father was dead also.
He looked behind and saw that she had gone out of sight and shut the door, he called his assistant to investigate certain things.
“I am sorry wifey” he murmured under his breath. She should be in the same age bracket with her sister. He is not usually like that, this is not his personality but a fake one.
He wishes she would understand someday. He didn’t mean to treat her so unkindly. But there is nothing he can do about it now. He looked at the direction she went and felt remorseful.