Wura wanted to go after Liam badly, however, she knew that speaking with Nora was much more important at this point.
Nora just stared at Wura, her eyes full of questions, hate, anger, sadness. Wura could see all this emotions, moving through her eyes and she felt so guilty.
"Nora wait!" Wura cried as Nora turned to leave. Wura quickly rushed and reached out, she held her hand.
"Leave me alone!" Nora raised her voice, she pulled her hand out of her grip.
Wura was taken aback, she had never heard Nora raise her voice at her once. She knew that this was too be expected, she would act the same way if she was in her shoes.
"Nora." Wura called, she felt like crying right now, she had never seen Nora be so aggressive.
"What?!" Nora asked, her voice full of so much agony.
"Nora, please wait, please, do not go. I need to talk to you, please, can we talk, please. I beg you." Wura pleaded instantly, she was in no role to demand, all she could do was beg, beg that Nora would be merciful and allow her explain.
Nora looked at Wura coldly, she did not know what she expected to hear, but she remained standing there.
"Thank you Nora, thank you." Wura smiled when she noticed Nora made no attempt to leave.
"I do not have much time, some people are out there suffering and I wish to help them." Wura could hear the anger in Nora's tone and she did not blame her one bit. If anything, she understood her and hoped for the best.
"I know Nora, I know, and that is why I wish to explain everything. I want you to understand." Wura said.
"Understand what?!" Nora could not help but snap. Understand what exactly? Did Wura think so little of her? Did she think that she was an idiot that could not put two correlating events together? Well she was none of the above, she was not going to stand here and continue to allow Wura lie to her and treat her like a fool.
"Nora, please, I beg you, I never meant to hurt you." Wura pleaded, she heard Nora scoff before she turned around. She wished to leave, but she wanted to hear her at least for the sake of trying to wrap her head around this entire situation.
"Do not start with that... do not start." Nora said. "You say you never meant to hurt me, you hurt me." Nora held back her tears.
"Oh Nora, please, I never intended for this to happen." Wura began quickly, she could see Nora's patience running out. "Everything just happened so fast and it started when I was drunk and I accidentally kissed Mero thinking he was Liam and from then on I started to develop feelings for him, feelings that I knew were wrong but I still allowed them."
"I see, so you continued to feel things for him while he pursued a relationship with me knowing fully well how I felt for him?" Nora asked, her voice raised.
"No, no, no Nora, I fought them so hard, I fought them oh so hard Nora, you have to believe me. Listen that was why I urged him to continue with the relationship with you, I thought that if I saw him happy with you, my own emotions would balance themselves out." Wura said.
"I see, so everything you did, all the support you rendered to our relationship was for your own gain?" Nora asked in pain.
"No, no, no Nora, no, I genuinely wished for you to be happy, I wanted you to be happy, I still do." Wura instantly replied.
"No, no, I do not believe that, you never wanted me to be happy, you only wished for me to be under you, you treated me like a fool." Nora's said, tears dropped down her eyes.
Wura felt tears dropping down her eyes when she heard Nora's words.
"No Nora, that is not true at all, not true at all. I care about you and I love you so much. I never wished to hurt you." Wura said.
"Stop saying that! Stop saying that!" Nora shouted. "You never did, you never cared about me, you knew fully well that you were the other woman and you remained there listening, saying nothing, sitting there looking innocent while I suffered in pain knowing that the man I love, the man I thought I loved was in love with another and it was the woman I was loyal to, the woman I served heartily every single day." Nora cried.
"Nora please, please, no that is not true." Wura replied.
"You and Mero were together the entire time." Nora said.
"No, Nora, that is not true, it is not true at all, it was only a few months ago when we went to that village for some weeks, and that was when Mero told me how he felt about me and he knew that I felt the same." Wura cried.
"He always knew, he did and I never knew he felt that way, but I told him that it was wrong, that we were not supposed to be together, but I threw all caution to the wind." Wura said.
"He told me that he cared for you, but he did not love you, he told me that he would rather end your relationship and stay alone for the rest of his life if he did not have me." Wura said.
"Oh, thank you for telling me that all the memories I have with him are false." Nora cried, she felt even more pained hearing Mero's words, she knew he spoke less, however, this was how he thought and it hurt her even though she thought that she had moved on but it still hurt like the first day she found out.
"No, they were never false, never, he truly cared about you, and I advised him not to hurt you, that was why he tried his best to tell you the right way." Wura said.
"All my loyalty to you was in vain!" Nora shouted. "You lied to me, you sat there, you listened to my cries, you pretended to comfort me when you were the cause of my problems."
"Nora, I always wanted to tell you, I always wanted to, remember that day I told you that I had something very important to tell you?" Wura asked crying.
"I wanted to tell you the truth, I did not wish for you to find out in such a way." She said.
"No you did not, I asked you, I asked you if you know who the woman was, and you lied to me, you lied straight in my face." Nora cried.
"I hate you, I hate you, I hate you." Nora cried. Wura felt her heart shatter, she had never seen Nora like this before. It made her feel so hurt, she hated herself as well for causing her so much pain.
This was what she had tried to avoid yet, she had walked right into it. Seeing Nora cry made her cry, seeing Nora hurt made her hurt.
"I understand that Nora, I do, I am sorry. I just want you to know that, I am sorry. I heard you say that no matter anything, you would never be angry with me and that you had already forgiven me. I was a fool to think that negated the common respect to tell you what happened." Wura sniffed.
"I already ended things with Mero, I felt the guilt I knew I would feel." Wura said.
"Clearly not, you do not know how shattering it was to see you kiss him." Nora said through gritted teeth.
"I know you, when Darla was in love with his majesty, you hated every minute of it, had you seen her kiss him, you would have ripped all her hair out. But I could do nothing, I just stood there watching in shock, in anger, in pain." Nora shouted.
"Just know that I will never, never, ever forgive you for this. Never look for me, I do not want to see you again, never." Nora said, she shouted one last time and took her leave.
Wura sobbed, she was in too much pain to speak. She could not even rush after her, she just stood there hating herself for what she did. There was so much truth in Nora's words that she could not refute.
She hoped and prayed that Nora would calm down and find some place in her heart to forgive her someday.
Wura wiped her tears, her heart went to Liam, she could not let him leave and get himself hurt.
She composed herself and rushed out of the tent in search for Liam. If everyone was destined to hate her today, she would accept it so as long as no one else was hurt.