Revenge Of Her Ex-husband

Chapter One: Surprise Cassie’s Pov At Hotel le Bristol Paris, I sat in the elegant lounge sipping my red wine slowly. I was careful not to consume too much and get tipsy. Alcohol and I are like fire and ice. We don't mix. I have been waiting for my husband, Alessandro Clarks, to come meet me in the hotel since he told me to wait for him and that he has a surprise for me. It's been One hour now and I have not seen Alessandro. He has not called either. My hands and my thighs were becoming simultaneously sweaty at my mixed feelings. I could tell I was afraid but mostly curious at what surprise Alessandro had for me. I should be curious. I mean, I and Alessandro have been married by a contract for one year and since being married, this was the first time he would want to spend time with me willingly. Alessandro doesn't love me; that I know. Yet, the attitude he had been showing for some days tells me something is happening to him from the inside. Perhaps, he is slowly falling for me. I caught him peeking admiringly at me a few days back and I crashed in bafflement. Am I slowly becoming the object of his affection? A beautiful smile snickered my face. But why isn't he here yet? I sipped a little of my wine again, checking the time on my phone. It was now some nine minutes past nine O'clock and I was slowly starting to feel neglected and abandoned. Calling Alessandro seems difficult for me, too, since we were just strangers living together in one house. We have never seen each other’s nude once since being together. We go to public places together holding hands and blowing the minds of the public, painting the beautiful picture of our facade marriage In their minds. Feeling rejected, I mustered up the courage to call Alessandro, but my phone suddenly rang first and I grabbed it with my shaky hands. It was Alessandro. “ Hello,” I said, nervously. “ Come home, Cassie. We need to talk” He sternly said to me from the phone. I hesitated a while not knowing how I should respond. “ Okay, I’ll join you shortly” I managed to gather the courage to say before he hung up on me. . I felt shattered, rejected, and worthless at the same time. The fact that Alessandro sounded mean to me on the phone made my life crumble to ruin. Alessandro was sweeter and nicer to me when we spoke earlier on the phone. Why now? Not willing to waste time, I abandoned my filled glass of wine, grabbed my bag, and headed straight home. Alessandro was on his laptop as usual when I got inside the living room. He was always like that. His face was cold and eerie. I wonder what was going on in his mind. “ Good evening, Mr Andro,” I greeted Alessandro the way I used to, but I was surprised when I did not get a response from him. Although emotionally detached from each other, Alessandro and I always responded and greeted each other. And I think I deserve an apology for what he did to me but he didn't apologize or say anything related to it. “ When is this contract ending?” He asked the most shocking question, not lifting his gaze from his laptop. I swallowed hard.” Next year. Today is September 5th, marking one year of the contract already,” I explained to him, my eyes curiously stuck to his slightly buried face. He typed something on the laptop before raising his cold gaze at me. “ I want this contract terminated” Very concisely, Alessandro said those words to me with ease. My jaw jolted and something died inside of me. I glanced at him in disbelief, not knowing what to say. “ Why do you want this contract terminated, Mr Andro? Did I do something bad?” I asked him, curious to hear his response. We were just fine earlier but I can't explain what suddenly went wrong. “ I don't want this marriage again, Cassie. You disgust me. I don't want to see you anywhere around me again” Alessandro said sternly to me. My world crashed at once. Alessandro was embittered towards me and I can see it ostensibly from the way his eyes burn. “ What suddenly changed, Mr Andro? You were not like this earlier. Please, did I offend you? Is there something that you don't like about me? I can make adjustments but don't push me out of the house, please—” “ Oh just shut up and stop being loquacious, Cassie. You are boring me with your senseless questions” He yelled at me, cutting me off from speaking further. Shutting down his laptop, Alessandro furiously stood up from beside me with red-blooded eyes that could melt steel. “ Cassie, we are ending this contract marriage right now. I want you out of my house the next ten minutes” He replied angrily to me and then pointed to the flat brown envelope on the sofa. “ Those are the divorce paper papers. Sign them. I am not releasing the 100 billion dollars to you anymore. You're leaving my housing without a dime from me” His words made me freeze inside. Speechless, I clenched my cold, sweaty hands to my beautiful dress, glancing at the brown envelope on the sofa that I did not take notice of. Alessandro came near me to carry his laptop and head inside when he suddenly stopped and looked at me with the eyes of someone who got betrayed by his lover. “ Cassie, this is not the end of us. I’ll come after you and cause you pain like you did to me. I’ll make life miserable for you until you crawl on your knees to beg my forgiveness” After saying those words to me, Alessandro tried to stomp but his phone reflexively fell to the floor close to where I sat, lost and broken. When Alessandro took the phone and put it on, I saw from the screen, a nude picture of a lady and a rough young man holding themselves together on the bed. The lady looked exactly like me.