The City Held Its Silence by Irel Knx 23

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This way Diana couldn’t torture me and lie about me using any of these things if I didn’t use them in the first place. I’m sure even if I’d found a way to prove my innocence and the evidence struck Keith in the face he’d still stand by Diana. 1 

I had to accept that Keith was always going to be biased towards Diana. She knew how to manipulate him well. I was also over the entire Diana, Keith situation. I had completely exhausted myself in my past life I didn’t want to deal with them again. By the time I died, they were still together and going strong. Better to just let them be. 

“What are you saying?” Keith asked me once more in disbelief. 

What Tony needed was stability right now. I had to figure out how to achieve my goals of being there for Tony, whilst also making sure he was left with something by the time I died. And I could only do that without any unnecessary stress and distractions. I couldn’t waste my time going back and forth with Diana and Keith as I had in my past life. The divorce and the endless legal battles that lasted for years, till I got sick. 

“I’m saying I don’t want your money and I don’t need the servants anymore,” I repeated. 

“Are you joking? You can’t be serious,” Keith said to me. 

“I am serious,” I answered confidently. 

“Do 

you realise what you’re saying? You expect me to believe you’re going to be cooking and cleaning for yourself?” He asked me in disbelief. 

“I don’t care what you believe,” I bluntly told him. I was already doing all that you idiot. 

Obviously, he couldn’t believe that a woman who had been raised the way I had could manage doing all that. In my past life, I wouldn’t have been able to at this stage but I already had years of practice unbeknownst to him. 

“Jasmine, I don’t know what’s going on with you but th-” he started. 

“-Try me, Keith,” I interrupted him agitatedly, as I glared at him, clearly displaying my anger to him. 

Keith’s eyes widened in surprise at my outburst. It was then that I realised that I had never spoken to Keith like this. In my past life when I spoke to Keith I was respectful and mild–mannered. It’s how I had been trained to speak to my husband growing up. If this were my past life at this point I would also still be speaking to him kindly. I would 

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have been begging/pleading with him to believe I was innocent and being by Diana of the things I’d done to her. 

Unfortunately, for Keith, the Jasmine he was speaking to now had suffered greatly at his hands. The divorce and the legal battle for him to make Anthony his heir had completely drained me. I now loathed him with a passion. 

“Jasmine…” Keith started in a tone that showed he wanted to continue arguing. 

“What’s it to you anyway? Why am I in trouble? It’s not affecting you is it?” I started frustrated by how he wouldn’t let it go. “You said you want me to stop trying to meet with you every day and I haven’t come to your office or house in the last two weeks. I also intend to keep it that way. So nothing else should be a problem between us. No matter how odd working as a waitress is, it’s my choice isn’t it? The money I spent was my money wasn’t it? I’m not bothering anyone so what’s the problem?” I argued. Even though it wasn’t true I played into the finishing my allowance thing to make my point. 

Keith bit his lip in frustration as he searched my eyes. He still couldn’t believe I was serious.“Fine suit yourself then,” he said to me at a loss. He then turned to the bodyguards in the room. “Tell the servants to leave the house immediately.” He told them. 

He then turned back to me. “And I’ll tell Diana to stop sending you your allowance.” 

He looked at me like he expected me to take back what I had said. I wasn’t taking back anything. “However, don’t say I didn’t warn you, when you come running back to me.” 

How would I run back to you when I have no way of contacting you? Your guards and workers will send me away as they always do if I try to see you. I thought to myself. 

“Great, so if you have nothing else to say I have to get started on dinner now,” I said to him now that everything was finalised. 

Keith’s eyes widened once again completely shocked by my words. 

“No,” he answered seeming speechless. “Let’s go,” he then turned to his men. 

Soon he left the living room with a dumbfounded expression. His men and servants followed after him. I let out a tired sigh as I closed the door after him. 

As I watched him leave I couldn’t help but think of how Keith actually thought he was trying to help me. He genuinely thought I was deciding to do everything for myself out of craziness. I sighed as I thought about it. Technically he was a kind a man and liked to 

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help people. He also believed in treating people fairly. The problem was that he was gullible and self–righteous. A nasty combination. 

Due to Diana’s lies, he was completely oblivious to what was actually happening to me. He kicked me out of the house for bullying Diana which, had it been true would be a fair punishment but it wasn’t since I was innocent. 

He was always like this, I noticed it during the first 7 years of our marriage. Sometimes he didn’t know the true nature of a situation and would take things at face value without properly researching and acting based on that. 

At the time I thought just thought it was just a small bad habit of his. Never had I imagined it would affect me in such a big way one day. When Diana returned, Keith took everything she told him at face value. She completely knew how to use that flaw of his to her advantage. 

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