The beginning of the end
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Ember quickly sets the plates and places all the food on the table. 'Hopefully he comes home and is in a good mood.' She thinks. Today is their 3 year anniversary and she wants everything to be perfect. She is hoping that maybe tonight will be the night that her and Edward finally make love. She moving around the room , almost floating, waiting for her husband. when she hears his Lamborghini pull up she hurriedly walks into the front room to greet him. Edward opens the door but doesn't notice his wife because he's to busy making out with another woman.
Ember is frozen in her spot watching her husband kiss another woman passionately. He's never kissed her but can easily kiss another woman?! The woman opens her eyes and winks at Ember before pulling away and acting shocked. "Ember!" She exclaims. Edward just now notice her and looks at her with total indifference. "Good. let's not drag this out." Edward takes out folded documents. Ember opens them and sees it's a divorce agreement. Shocked she looks at Edward with teary eyes. "Why?" she asks in a trembling voice. "You know I only married you to appease my grandmother. I never had feelings for you. You was just holding Heather, the only true mrs. Sullivan, spot." Ember heart shattered. 3 years meant nothing to him. That's why he never touched her, he was saving himself for her. Ember looks over his shoulder at Heather's smug smirk. "Sign it and leave." He says coldly. Ember took the pen and documents and signed her name. She refused to waste another second on the heartless man.
When she married him, she didn't care about his status or his money. She loved him. When he said he wanted to keep their marriage a secret she didn't mind. She did any and everything to make him happy and this is what she gets in return. Divorced. For a woman who left the first chance she got. Ember thrust the papers back to Edward, took her ring off and threw it into the burning fireplace, and turned to go pack her things. "You can't take a single thing I paid for!!" Edward yells after her but her steps didn't falter. She burst into the room grabbing only her documents and a phone Andrea, her best friend, gave her. As she turned to leave she came face to face with Heather. Her smug smirk still on her face as she walks toward Ember. Before Heather can say a word Ember's hand connects with her face. The slap resonates through the room. Heather grabs her face and looks at Ember, her words dying in her throat as she see the cold and murderous look in her eyes. Ember turns up her nose and leaves.
Ember Sullivan dies the second she walked out that villa. She calls her best friend and doesn't wait for her say anything. "Please let the board of directors know that Ember McGregor will be in tomorrow for a emergency meeting.
Before she got married, Ember was known as a up and coming fashion designer. Once she got married she changed her name and had her best friend run her small empire in her name is case something, like her divorce, happens. Now she's taking her spot back and will make her ex husband pay
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