Chapter 10
“Rita, is it true what they’re saying online?”
“You divorced me just to be with that pretty boy, didn’t you?”
I took a few steps back, distancing myself from him.
“What nonsense are you talking about?”
“Don’t you really know why we got divorced?”
But he didn’t seem to hear me. He fell into a kind of paranoia and approached me again.
“No, no, it’s not true! You loved me so much. You couldn’t have just turned your back on me over something so small!”
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“You must have already fallen for someone else! That’s why you could leave me so easily, isn’t it?!”
Ethan’s voice was frantic, almost hysterical.
I didn’t want to argue with him any longer.
“We’re already divorced. Arguing over this is pointless.”
I pushed him toward the door.
But as I was closing it, he slammed his hand against it, blocking it.
He winced in pain, veins bulging from his hand, but his gaze never left me.
“Rita, can we start over?”
“Selima’s words aren’t true. I didn’t ask her
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to do that with the cat treats. She was just trying to drive a wedge between us!”
“I know you’ve been hurt over the years. I promise, I’ll never see Selima again. I just want you back. Can we try again?”
“Please…”
I’d never seen him so desperate, so humbled.
But the wounds in my heart were ones he could never heal.
I took a deep breath.
And I tore open the wounds in my heart that had finally started to heal.
“Ethan, do you know how I’ve been living these past year and a half?”
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“I threw myself into my work, day and night, not just because I’m hardworking, but because only this way could I keep myself so busy that I didn’t have time to think about what happened before.”
“And when you talk about ‘something so small; are you referring to the child you kill? Or the nights you spent with other women behind my back?”
“Ethan, you always like to shift the blame onto others, but in reality, you’re the most unforgivable person of all!”
The more I spoke, the angrier I became.
I couldn’t hold back anymore and slapped him hard across the face.
Ethan stood frozen, repeating over and over, “It’s not like that…”
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“Ethan, it’s over between us.“”
“Leave now, or I’ll call the police.”
A flicker of panic crossed his eyes..
He grabbed my arm, his drunken frenzy taking over, “No, you love me! Say you love me!”
“Let go…”
Before I could finish, he was suddenly
yanked backward with great force, stumbling; a few steps and almost falling down the stairs.
“She told you to let go! Didn’t you hear that?”
Lucas’s voice was sharp, filled with anger
He clenched his fist and moved to shield me with his body, eyes seething with fury.
Ethan tried to charge at us, but the security guards, two large men, quickly restrained him.
“Mr. Williams, Miss Rita, sorry we’re late.”
Ethan struggled with all his might, but the guards easily overpowered him due to their size difference.
I steadied myself and told the guards with as much composure as I could muster.
“Don’t let him into the complex again.”
The guards nodded repeatedly and dragged him away.
