The Wife I Never Met
Chapter 154

After clearing up table and putting everything in the kitchen, Ciara put Lina in her stroller and Decided to take her for a walk.

They walked pass their beautiful lush garden straight out to the beach front taking in all the fresh air and scenery around her communty. She felt at peace for the first time since that traumatic day, it could be because she had now taken her first step towards healing.

They sat down on the sand further from the water and watched the waves as they came and went.

She was then disturbed by her phone ringing as she was still admiring the nature around her.

” Mom?”

She answered the phone as soon as she saw who was calling her.

” Hey baby, I’m at your House now and don’t tell me that you have changed your mind because I really want to spend some time with my granddaughter.”

When she checked the time, Ciara realized that her appointment time was nearing and would certainly be late if she didn’t start moving right at that time.

” Shoot, sorry mom, I’m down by the beach. Don’t worry though, I’m coming right away.”

She then ended the call and started pushing her dirty daughter who was now full of sand from playing in the sand.

When they reached the villa they found Hillary sitting on the couch enjoying her cup of tea with biscuits and happily chatting with Ms Nicky. They had hit it off from the start and got along really well.

” Sorry to keep you waiting, I lost track of time.”

Hillary looked at her daughter who had a layer of sweat from all the rushing but still chose to reprimand her.

” How about a ‘Hello mom, how are you today?’ , Ciara that’s not how I raised you.”

Ciara looked down in shame, she was in a hurry just now that she even forgot to greet her elder.

Ignoring her Hillary walked to to the baby in the stroller and started playing with her.

She tickled Lina asking her if she’s been a good girl and behaving well, but all that Lina did was to giggle and laugh at her.

Hillary then raised her head and looked at Ciara who was still standing in the same position.

” Are you going to stand there like a rod?”

“Uhm mom, I know that you were only here for a visit but, can I ask you to babysit Lina for a hour or two hours for me, will you?”

Hillary looked at her deeply then shook her head,

” Ciara is this really what we’ve become. I’m your mother yet you still talk to me as if walking on glasses. Can’t you just say you need to go out and the place where you are going to and I’ll stay with Lina. She is my granddaughter after all.”

Ciara didn’t know what to say, it was because their relationship was strained that she wasn’t able to rely on her parents for everything, but always have to confirm with them first.

She smiled and said,

” Thank you mom, Let me give Lina a bath then.”

” No you get yourself ready, I’ll sort everything for Lina and I’m sure Nicky will help me out with what I can not replace.”

With that Ciara nodded and made her way to her bedroom where she took a shower and got herself ready for her session with the doctor.

She came out of her room looking and smelling amazing, she then went downstairs and bid farewell to the others.

By the time she got out of the house Liam was already parked outside waiting for her.

” Hey aren’t you supposed to be at work right now?”

” No, I am where I’m supposed to be. My wife can not be going through this all by herself, I’ll be taking you to your appointment now.”

He then opened the door for Ciara to get in and then helped her with her seat belt. Once they were both settled in car, Liam drove off and headed to their destination.

Upon arrival Ciara was asked to fill in a few documents and waited for the doctor to call her in, and so they sat there with her lazily laying her head on Liam’s shoulder.

” Ciara you may come in now.”

The doctor’s assistant called her in, so they stood up and headed to their appointed room, but were stopped by the same assistant before they got inside.

” I’m afraid you can not go in Sir, Doctor Lindy only allows one patient at a time. Should she see that your wife needs extra support then you will be called in.”

Since it was put in that way and Ciara had also nodded her head to show that she’d be fine, Liam had no choice but to sit back down even though he wasn’t comfortable with it.

Ciara walked in and found Doctor Lindy writing something on her notebook. Since the woman didn’t say anything and continued to write, Ciara decided to just sit down without being invited to do so and wait for her to finish.

When Lindy saw a woman sitting in front of her she stopped and looked up to Ciara and welcomed her with a smile.

” Good day, my Name is Doctor Lindy and I’ll be your therapist for the day and hopefully if you do enjoy our session today we may continue together.”

” Thank you, well I’m Ciara Jones.”

” They told me that you want us to help you deal with a trauma caused by a recent accident, is that right?”

” correct.”

Ciara then went on to relay the event of that night, the more she thought about it was the more emotional she became.

Noting that her voice was becoming raspy and her eyes starting to wet up a little, Lindy pushed a box of tissue paper and continued to listen why jotting down her thoughts on the matter.

” Ok, let’s dig in to the matter, what do you think drove her in to that? What pushed her in to wanting to kill you?”

Ciara took a deep breath and paused while staring at the ceiling above her.

” That’s ok take your time.”

She then moved her eyes from the ceiling to the woman in front of her.

” I don’t know, I guess she hates me that much and wants me dead that’s why.”

Lindy nodded her head then started writing again once was done she continued to ask her question.

” What makes you think that she hates you? Did you do something to her to evoke that hate?”.

Ciara shook her head and then said,

” I have no idea really, but she had been like that since growing up. I remember that she was never happy whenever I’d get something she viewed as better than what she had, and would often try to take my things forcefully as she felt that I didn’t deserve it.”

” I see, so tell me how did you respond to her whenever she bullied you and tried to take your things?”

” Fight her of cause, I mean my parents bought it for me for a reason so why would I let someone take it away just like that.”

” So what you are saying is that, she had never successfully taken anything from you.”

Ciara was about to respond with a firm yes, but then remembered that Boity had once dated Dexter behind her back, which caused Dexter to breakup with her at some point.

” Not really, she had once dated my fiance at that time.”

” And how did you respond to that when you found out about them.”

She thought for some time, trying hard to look back to the event that took place years ago.

” well nothing really, by the time I found about the reason Dexter dumped me, I was already married and had made peace with the fact that he didn’t want to be with me. I did however complain to my husband and friends about it, nothing too major.”

The woman went silent and this time she spent a whole five minutes writing down and this felt like a life time to Ciara who didn’t know what Lindy felt about her response. She wasn’t sure whether Lindy was judging her or if she had sympathy for her and because of that she started getting fidgety and played with her fingers just to distract herself while Lindy is doing her thing.

” May I ask, what are you writing?”

Lindy looked at her with a smile and closed her notebook, placing a pen inside to mark the page she was in.

” Nothing to worry about, It’s just a few notes of our session.”

” Do you think that I should’ve reacted in a certain way other than how I did?”

” Well I think that you bottled in a lot of emotions, but this isn’t about me and what I think. You need to asked yourself if you’ve dealt with all your past traumas, because these things turn to build up and when It’s for it to come out, it will surely explode and sometimes you may not be able to cope.

Yes, this time it was caused by Boity, but how many other traumatic situations have you been through that you didn’t do anything about?”.