The billionaire's runaway wife

             " Athena, are you sure you want to do this?". Grace Dean eyes her best friend carefully        " You know if you return to Australia to file this divorce, he will surely come after you?".        " Grace it's time I move on. I can't start dating someone when I am still married to someone else. Kelvin is a very nice and cool guy and I want badly to give him a chance but I can't do that when am still married to someone else". Athena said to her friend lifting up her shoulder slightly in a shrug.        " And besides Liam didn't want me 3 years ago and am sure he still wouldn't have interest in me now. He has already made his choice".       Liam Robert is a well known ruthless and heartless billionaire, and the CEO of the Emperor's, a company founded by this great-grandmother and now one of the well known entertainment company in the world.        Liam had selected a young and beautiful girl to make a star through their platform barely 2 years into his marriage a year before Athena had left him.         Rose never left his side, which was the most reason Athena had gotten tired of the marriage.       As days and months passed by, Athena had no reason to believe that her husband, Liam and Rose was seeing each other behind her back. But not just her imagination, Rose also told her to her face that they were.       When she asks Liam he would say it was just her overreacting self that was add odd words to Rose's words. Over the few years of thier marriage that she had lived with him, she had noticed that he is the kind of a man that loves controlling. He loves things to be done his way and this was really not her problem because she had thought that she was only living to pleas him.      And he definitely won't let her go even if he was sleeping around he wound still want her to keep quiet and remain his wife.     Her self-esteem and self-respect had all crashed to pieces and she was left in humiliation after the news and social medias had spread the photos of Liam and Rose dancing provocatively at a night club. She had confronted him say he should choose between her and other women. He had laughed at her and then seduced her telling her even if he slept with Rose every day she would still let him in her bed everyday.      She would weak up at midnight to find the other side of the bed empty. He had returned to the club with Rose. She returned to their bedroom, smashed thier wedding photo on the wall, left her wedding ring on the bed. She picked up the few things she had before getting married to her and walked out of the house in the middle of the night.       She had called her grandparents to inform them that she was leaving just not to make them worried but she also told them that she wouldn't tell them we're she was going to because she knew that Liam would somehow convince them and the will lead him to her and then he would convince her to stay in the marriage, which she didn't want to.       She had expected her grandfather who was a very strong Christan to make matters a little bit hard for her but to her surprise he grandfather had agreed that truly Liam didn't deserve to have her as his wife. And he had told her that he supports her decision and he now regretted giving that sweet talking man his blessings in the marriage to his granddaughter. He had also seen the news and he knows how his only grandchild was being treated badly.          " I think he would want you back considering the fact that he had been stalking your grandparents for the past three years to the point when you can not even tell them which part of the world you are in". Grace stretched her hand across the kitchen table to hold her .       " Is there no way for you to do this without going to meet him?".        " No, I have to sign the divorce papers in front of the clerk". She rolled her eyes.       " My grandfather said he will accompany me. I have already contacted a lawyer and they assured me discretion until it's filled". Saying that the horn of a tax stopped their discussion.       " Okay, am off to the airport. I will call you immediately I get there.Wish me luck ".       " Good luck dear, I just pray that Liam doesn't find you". Grace said.       " No, what I need is to hear that Liam had fallen under the holy Spirit and had given his life to Christ and is now a kind man. So that he will be considerate and Grant me my wish in peace". She stood up and hugged grace squeezing her so tightly she worried her ribs wound crack soon        " Don't miss me too much".         " I promise I won't". Grace grinned .        " I will be too busy working double shifts for the next week, make sure you buy me something hot while coming back".        " I sure will". She gave a wave as she reluctantly walked away. She climbed into the taxi and gave the driver the instruction to take her to the airport.        " Going on a trip?".the cab driver was trying to be friendly but Athena was really in taking mood right now.         " Yes".          " Anywhere fun". He has kept the conversation going with some questions that Athena found unnecessary .         Athena had kept quiet and reasoned for a while before answering and she had come to the conclusion that she would give him something that he would talk about for the whole of today.      " You know I am actually heading to you village to see if you father is still available to take me as his tenth wife". Her rude comment had Immediately silenced the man, she watched him wickedly through the mirror as his face turned sour.       When she was satisficad with the outcome of her words, she settled back in her seat and tried to calm her nervous stomach as she thought about returning to Australia.        It had been long since she had left there. As she seat at the back she let her mind wander to the past and the ugliness of how she had gotten out of track.       Her mum had met her dad when he was a college student on holiday in Australia. She had fallen head over heels with him and had followed him back to his city after the holiday. The had little money, while her dad struggled to finish school and found out that her mother was pregnant with her, her father had asked her mom to stay out home and stop working. Although her parents had slowly began to make a life for them, travelling to Australia still was not something that they could do frequently.       Her parents had been killed in a car accident when she was six and her only living relatives had been her grandparents. Had grandparents had taken care of her since then.       She struggled to cope with the lose of her parents. The two people she had adored and loved all her life. For months she would go to school by the day and cry be night, missing her parents horribly.       Because she had only had the meet with her grandparents a few times, growing up with them was a little bit hard and lonely for her. The language had been a barrier for sometime but as time passes she was able to blend in.       Slowly her grades improved, and she began to make new friends even with all this she still misses her parents. She began to do well in the City. She enrolled in a college program for business management and in her first year as a naive nineteen years old girl the job she was able to get was as a clerk in the accounting offices of the Emperors.       She will spend her entire summer working her ass off, learning everything she needed to know about accounting for big companies and she had earned the approval of her supervisors with her hard work.       At the end of summer, with only two weeks left before she was supposed to stop working and return to her classes she would work late and since she also supposed to meet up with her friends to have a few drinks, she was in a hurry as she crossed through the packing lot she had walked right into Liam's sport car.         He had almost rum her over and with anger her stepped out of his car. He forcefully draged her up the ground with letting her steady he shook her violently causing her in language she wasn't familiar with terrifying her.she managed to yank her arm away and slapped him hard on the face. He was completely shocked by her action and she had used the opportunity to run away.        She has never run so fast in her life. She was terrified by the unmannered dude who won't stop yelling at her , she had hid for sometime inside a public restroom of a local restaurant worried he would follow her and scared he would retaliate for slapping him.        When she finally met up with her friends for drinks, she had constantly checked over her shoulder as if the crazy man in the sport car was going to pop up and kill her.        The next morning it had been a hundred times worse as when she had gone to work all she could think of was the crazy man in the sport car was waiting for her in the parking lot to tell and shake her some more. She crossed the lot faster than she had ever done before and finally when she made it to her desk without unharmed, she let out her held breath. Only after she had worked for some hours dis she finally start to relax and almost forget about the entire thing. It was lunch time and she was leaving the office with a couple of co-workers to get lunch, she came face to face with the crazy man who had nearly moved her down as she spoke to the head of department where she was working.        Instantly he had demanded an introduction and when she realized that it was the almighty Liam Robert, she was sorry for her self for making such a foolish mistake. Not only had she stepped into his car but she had also slapped him. She had slapped the handsome face of the CEO.         Remorse was not a strong enough word of how she felt for her actions. She stood silently, waiting for him to fire her on the spot. But she was shocked when he suddenly apologized for almost running her over the other day and accepted that he wasn't paying enough attention to his surrounds as he had assumed that he was the only one in the office at that time.       She accepted his apology with a quiet whisper, the hotness of his eyes on her was making her want to take a very cold drink or even a shower. For the first time in her young adult life, she had felt the tug of lust pulling at her from the inside. He had more male magnetism than anyone she had ever melt before and even the boys she had dated before had not even come close to eliciting the response her body had to his nearness.         Scared that she would wake even a bigger fool out of herself than she had the night before she tried to walked away quickly, explaining that she was holding her friends up for lunch. But instead of letting her go her waved her friends to go on without her and told her he was taking her to lunch as a act of apology for his behavior the night before. Her girlfriends had made big eyes behind his back, and she couldn't say no to his offer as he took her hand and tucked it through his elbow.         She had spent her entire 20 minutes of lunch on staring at her water glass, wishing the ground could just up and sallow her. As he spoke into his cell phone she had used the opportunity to take a good look at his face. Few minutes later the had excused herself from him with her food untouched and left him alone there.         After waiting for 15 minutes and she still wasn't back Liam was angry and had thought that it was rude of her to have just left him here when they came together. He stood up and left in anger and almost immediately Athena had worked in and was really pissed that he left her alone.         She slammed her purse down on the table and when her co-workers arrived just moment after her and asked her how lunch was she had fumed the man was nothing but a big jerk who had a rotten manner.        Ten minutes later he stormed into the office setting, divided into several smaller cubicles. Immediately seeking for her tiny portion. He began to give her a whole Simon for walking out on him in the restaurant. Her blood boiled over and she completely lost her cool and told him off, forgetting that just yesternight she was completely terrified. She had tap him continuously as she spoke. She called him an inconsiderate jerk and told him that even the homeless people on the street had more manners than him.       When she had turned and caught the look of horror on the face of her supervisor, she simply picked her bag riased her chin and told her she knew she was fired and walked out.         Liam had followed her out of the building and shoved her to the strong walls and had Immediately kissed her until she couldn't think straight anymore. Two months later they had gotten married in a quiet ceremony not even the hardest working journalist in the country had found out about it. She could still feel the tenderness in their first kiss as if it was still happening now.       Athena sighed as she broke from her daydream to find out that they were pulling into the airport. She took a long deep breath as she realized that in taking this trip she was embarking for an entire new chapter of her life. It was time for her to officially begin her life as a single woman, without the threat of Liam retuning and usurping her peaceful existence. It started with this flight, and it will end when she finally receives her divorce papers in her hand. Then she wound be able to start dating again and eventually someday she would marry again and she would have a happy family