Runaway Groom's Regrets: Begging My Ex-Bride For Second Chance

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While on the road, Daphne couldn’t help but think about what Nathan had said to her minutes before when they were having dinner. She didn’t like the way he responded to her like she was a nosy bitch who meddled in other people’s life.

She knew she wasn’t that kind of person, as she was just concerned as a teacher toward Chuck’s reprehensible attitude. The kid was too much and way out of himself that he was downright rude to everybody, even to his elders. For Daphne, Chuck was just so disrespectful to them that she couldn’t let it go, even if this was the first time meeting and interacting with him.

For this reason, she broke the silence between them as she clutched her purse tightly. “I know this might be way too overboard as Chuck’s tutor, and I mean no disrespect for your parenting skills with him, but I think you shouldn’t tolerate his tantrums.”

Yeah, Daphne was stubborn, and even if Nathan Kelly would get mad with her, she didn’t care, and to the hell with it.

Nathan pulled the clutch, shifting his gears. Despite not looking at her, the anger on his face swelled up that it was evident to be noticed by Daphne.

“As I’ve said before, Daphne, I know what I am doing with my nephew. If you can’t comprehend that, please just keep the advice to yourself.” Then, after a couple of seconds, as his arms were on the steering wheel, he continued, “Don’t go beyond the boundary of being his tutor and my employee. You know nothing about him and you also don’t have the right to talk about him that way. I don’t want this to become personal to you and would never desire to affect this … to your work, but please do me a favor and respect the distance between being his teacher and tutor. Am I making myself clearer to you this time, Daphne?”

Daphne became tongue-tied after that. Even though she understood his point, she still couldn’t accept his explanation. She knew her limit as Chuck’s teacher, but she also knew her responsibility along with that role. Deep in her heart, she believed that as a teacher she shouldn’t only teach the kid with basics, but also inculcate a positive and well-mannered attitude toward the kid.

Being a teacher didn’t end in the four corners of the room. To be a teacher was also to be a second parent to the child.

And because of this, Daphne was absolutely annoyed with him. “Well, I wouldn’t tell that to you if you know how to treat your nephew, Nathan,” she muttered, to which Nathan heard considerably.

“If this is how you do your work professionally, Miss Collins, then I suggest this deal between us would never last long. Pay me the fine you’ve caused for the inconvenience and the ruckus you'd made.”

Daphne gritted her teeth. “Oh, don’t you worry, mister, because I’m not like others who run away from their debts!”

“Good to know! Because if you continue being an insufferable swot, then I don’t have a choice but to fire you, Miss Collins!” he shouted, stopping the car to a screeching halt when the red light blinked at a traffic light.

Daphne scoffed. “You don’t have to worry about that, Mister Kelly, because before you can even fire me, I already quit!”

“Huh, so this is how you want to do this?!” Nathan spat back.

“Yeah, because apparently, I’m a fucking insufferable bitch!” She snapped at him and hastily walked out of the car before Nathan could reply to her.

All alone by himself in the traffic, he thumped his hands on the steering wheel, looking pissed off and irritated. “I said swot, not bitch!”

As soon as Daphne Collins dashed out of the car, Nathan was left alone with a bothering thought about her. He couldn’t explain it, but somehow, he rather felt like a jackass to Daphne for the insensitive remark that he had made.

And not because he cared about her or took notice of her, but because, at the bottom of his heart, he knew that what she had said was right. He didn’t know what and how parenting was when Chuck was given to him. Nathan was just also a young adult back then with a child-like maturity to even handle that kind of tremendous responsibility.

So, without thinking about it thoroughly, he swerved the car to turn around in the nearest corner and shifted to the right, to where Daphne exited the vehicle. Parking the car by the sidewalk, he walked on the street, trying to find a woman with dark blonde hair, who was wearing semi-formal clothes.

A few minutes had passed, and to no avail, he couldn’t find Daphne. Frustrated by it, he raked his hands through his hair and ran back and forth to the same street, scrutinizing every corner of the avenue.

Meanwhile, Daphne, who was still pissed off, was walking to the empty alley, all alone with the smoke from the car’s exhaust pipe and the flickering lights on every store sign she approached. Covered by a dark, grim night, the back street of the pathway was shrouded with an odd, deafening silence. Daphne’s back shivered in anxiousness as she felt the stiff brush of the breezy wind swirling around her as though it were whispering an omen to her.

She wrapped her arms, skidding away quickly to the eerie path so that she could get away from there as fast as possible. Turning to the left side of the alley’s corner, she collided with three buff men.

“Hey, peach! Want to come with us?” The short man whistled, wiggling her eyebrows back and forth.

Daphne just hunched her head down, ignoring the three hooligans. However, a tall man blocked her way when he cut to her front.

“Ain’t that booty banging, woohoo!” he hooted out, smirking deviously.

“You dressed up nicely, sweetheart. But it would be even better if I take those off on you!” The last man, who was quite large, scoffed.

This time, Daphne couldn’t keep quiet, and with that, she lifted her head to them with audacity and spat back, “Leave me alone! Assholes!”

The short man laughed, slapping his tall friend on his back. “Fuck dude, this one is feisty!”

“You like it dirty. Don’t you, bitch?” The bulky man among the three sneered, flashing his black smeared teeth.

Daphne cringed inwardly when her gaze promptly met his randy leer. “Get out of my way!” She warned the colossal man in front of her and pushed him away.

“Ah, this bitch likes to play!” The short man snatched her arms instantly, pulling Daphne to her. His friend, the lanky tall man, block the other side so she couldn’t have a chance to get away from them.

“Don’t ya worry, sweet cheeks, we’ll make sure you’ll have some fun!” the tall man on Daphne’s left side whispered in her ears.

Taunting shivers in her nerves ignited as his uncouth voice reverberated her thoughts, filling her mind and body with oscillating fear. She gulped deliberately when her fingers automatically curled into her sweaty palms.

“I said let me go!” Daphne miffed back.

Finally, the bulky, large man came forward. Licking his lips, he said to his two guys, “Get our lady inside, and make sure she’s all tied up.”

The two nodded at him. On Daphne’s right side, the short man uttered with excitement, “We’ll bound you so tight, honey, so you would keep on coming back.”

As soon as Daphne heard him, she tried to squirm out of his friend’s grasp. She wriggled her wrists that were tied to the two men’s hands and weighed drag her weight down so that they would struggle to lift and slog her to their place.

“No! Get away from me! You assholes!” Daphne screamed in protest.

“Ah dude, this bitch is a screamer!” The tall man commented to his friend as he slammed Daphne with a dirty rag from his jeans pocket.

As he excavated throughout the entire avenue, Nathan heard an alarming scream coming from the other side of the alley. He tracked the shrilling high-pitched voice along the corners of the sidewalks and sprinted across the block to where the sound originated.

“Daphne is that you?!” He shouted, running to the dark alley of the street, and by the time he got there, he was astounded to see Daphne with three men hauling her like a piece of sack.

“Mmph!” Daphne cried to him when she saw Nathan while a cloth was blocking her mouth as she was being dragged by the group.

He fumed with anger as he witnessed what they were about to do with her. Running toward them, he “You fucking muggers, let the lady go!”

“Aw, looks like your boyfriend is here to help you, baby!” The short man teased.

The tall man snide, “Too bad, he’ll see you fucking us three with all of your holes!”

In front of Daphne, the bulky man added, “Shut it, Whicker! You’re wasting the time. Just drag the bitch to the corner!”

Both of his friends obliged their leader and pushed her to the corner of the block. Daphne writhed her body, trying to unlash from them.

Whilst, the large man waited for Nathan to come closer to them as he matched the glowering stare of the young man.

Unaware of what Daphne was about to do, the tall man felt the blow of the lady’s heel on his shin, resulting in his excruciating whine. Consequently, the short man abruptly loosened his grip on Daphne when she kicked him in his balls.

As a result, her back was smashed into the cold, arid concrete ground when the two men dropped her. She threw the rag from her mouth, spit the awful and disgusting taste from it, and skewed her back, wincing from the massive blow of the cemented surface.

Nathan was about to help Daphne when he paused to realize that the woman didn't need his help. While watching her tearing the two hooligans apart, he found himself chuckling in wonder how a small, petite woman like her could handle those guys.

“Daphne!” Nathan shouted again to Daphne, reminding her.

Along with her shallow breaths, she didn’t think twice about getting up and running away from them when all of the sudden, the hefty man hastily pulled the tail of her hair with intense force, making her scream with agonizing pain.

“Oh no, woman, you won’t get away with us just like that!” The large man warned her as he thrust her back to his chest. “I’ll make sure you’ll obey as I fuck you so hard!”

“Let me go, you bastard!” Daphne didn’t let her fear cower her. She stomped her heels to his feet to try to dash away from him.

However, the man dodged her stomp quickly. “Honey, you’ll have to do more than that.” He called again to his two men who struggled to get up and ordered, “You wimps, get your ass up!”

Nathan noticed it right away. The situation between them took a dark turn when the two men came to help their friend again and grabbed Daphne to her feet, carrying her inside the reclusive corner of the alley.

Because of that, Nathan rushed to get to them before they could do something to Daphne. Without hesitation, he punched the stout man in the face and hit him on the side of his limbs. His opponent was able to recover from his punch. Cracking his neck, the bulky man hit his face in return.

Nathan felt the massive blow of his punch, making his vision hazy and dizzy. He then shook his head sideways, waking himself to jab the man against his cheeks. To his dismay, the large man dodged it rapidly, turning his shoulders away from Nathan.

“Ya think you can kill me with a puny cock of yours, shithead?” The man jeered at him with his arrogant gait.

However, Nathan didn’t let his insults flinch his confidence down. The man was larger than him and taller. He knew he couldn’t beat the shit out of them if he attacked the front. Bearing that in mind, he probed into the opening sides of the man, looking for his blindside.

Nathan then moved to the left side of the open street as he waited for the right time for the man to bout him. And as what he had just surmised, his opponent rushed to him, raising his arm to punch him on right.

On impulse, he sloped his shoulders back, yanked his forearm, and snapped it with a twist on his back. When he got him in his grasp, he kicked the back of his knees, making him kneel in the progression.

With a hunger to knock him down, he banged his head on the nearest light post and threw him into the street. The tall man wasn’t about to attack him back as he plummeted on the asphalt cement and blacked out into oblivion. The two men recognized what had Nathan done, which made them react quickly to help their friend.

“Mother fucking, son of a bitch!” The tall man hissed.

Requiting for their friend, the tall man tried to blow him on his jaw, but he failed to do so when Nathan, in reflex, counter-attacked him with an uppercut.

“Ah no, you shit! Don’t you mess with my brother?!” The short man then ran to smack his back with a piece of wood lying around the street’s alley. Nathan promptly noticed the wood; however, instead of dodging it, he caught its bark, gripping it tight to halt the man from hitting him.

“I wouldn’t do that if I were you,” he cautioned the man.

Nevertheless, the short man didn’t recoil from his warning and extricated away the wood from him. He then proceeded to hit him on his ribs, which Nathan didn’t calculate right away.

“Fuck you phony superman!” The short man laughed.