Why? 3 || Shackled to the Heart 56

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Imade storms in ready for a fight, but instead finds that Micheal has built a hospital in their late son’s name. Watching a child’s heart being saved pulls open every buried wound, every regret, every truth she’s tried to outrun and in that fragile moment, she crosses a line that threatens to shatter the life she’s fought so hard to build.

CHAPTER 56

Burn yourself

INT. PURE HOSPITAL- EVENING

Micheal zips his trouser and then adjust his belt properly with a bright smile on his face as he turns to Imade who has her face on her two hands

MICHEAL

(His smile fades) Not this again, Imade

She raises her tears stained face up

IMADE

Why do I keep doing this, Micheal? Why? Why am I doing this to myself when I have so much to lose?

MICHEAL

Because you love me

He moves closer to her and kneels before her

MICHEAL

Because you are in love with me, Imade

IMADE

I can’t lose my family, Micheal, I can’t

MICHEAL

And you won’t

IMADE

Not if this keeps happening

MICHEAL

You won’t lose your girls, I promise you

He picks up his phone and dials a number

MICHEAL

(Speaks into the phone) I change my mind, tell Ms. Ejiofor that I want the full money

Then he cuts the call

MICHEAL

You won’t lose your girls, I promise you

She stands up suddenly and adjust her clothes

IMADE

This can’t happen again, Micheal, don’t call me anymore and enough with your tricks

MICHEAL

You love me, Imade

IMADE

I am not disputing that fact but I don’t want to see you anymore

MICHEAL

How are you going to cope without seeing me?

IMADE

I have been doing just that for the past ten years, I think I can keep enduring

MICHEAL

Enduring, is that how you want to live the rest of your life? Enduring a loveless marriage

IMADE

I know what you are trying to do but it does not matter. My feelings don’t matter because my children are the most important people to me and I have to protect them. I have to do right by them and doing right by them means staying married to their father. They are my priority

MICHEAL

They can be my priority too, I can protect them. Don’t you get it, those girls could have been my blood if I didn’t broke up with you back then

IMADE

But you did broke up with me and those girls are not your blood, they are Wemimo’s, they are his to protect

MICHEAL

I am going to put everything back in its place, I promise you, Imade

IMADE

Everything is exactly where it is suppose to be, Micheal. If I can find a way to love my life as Imade King, so can you

MICHEAL

If it is about your life as Imade King, you are not going to lose it, I will employ the best lawyers in world to handle your divorce case. You will get to keep your children and also your company

IMADE

Imade King is not just a mother and a CEO but she is also a wife to Wemimo King and I can’t lose that position

MICHEAL

What?

IMADE

I love you, Micheal but I made Wemimo, he may not know that, the same way he made me, I made him who he is. If not for me, he will probably be serving his brothers instead of them serving him today. I sacrificed too much into making him who he is today and hell will freeze over before I let another woman take my place beside him

MICHEAL

Then I guess I just have to take him out

IMADE

(Scoffs) Micheal, whatever you are planning you need to stop, you will get hurt

MICHEAL

Is that concern I detect, I thought you love your life as Imade King more

IMADE

I am in love with you, of course I am concerned. You are not the first person to come for him and you won’t be the last. It does not always fare well for his enemies

MICHEAL

Not this time, I have an airtight case. It is going to be any day, you should savor the little time you will have as Imade King

IMADE

There is a little hiccup in your plan

MICHEAL

Which is?

IMADE

I am going to tell him

MICHEAL

Where will you say you got the information from?

IMADE

What?