Chapter 3
857 Words
◇Kate◇
How long had he been standing there? Had he heard her? Whatever! She didn’t care anymore. “Don’t you know how to knock?” she asked sarcastically.
“Do I need permission to enter my wife’s room?” he replied.
“Ex-wife, soon. Next time, please knock and respect my privacy, just as I respect yours,” she shot back.
“Privacy, huh?” He took slow steps toward her. “For what? To maintain your decency? Just minutes ago, you were begging me to sleep with you.”
He was mocking her feelings and using them against her. Tears welled up in her eyes, but she refused to give him the satisfaction of seeing her break down in front of him. “What do you want, Mr. Williams?!.”
“I’m taking the kids to my mother; she asked for them. I’m having dinner with my family,” he stated.
His family didn’t like her; they never missed an opportunity to insult her. The only exception was his younger sister, Ashley, with whom she had developed friendships over the past three years.
“Okay, I will prepare them,” she said.
He nodded and left.
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“I asked for a divorce”
“ Wow, that's great. You're getting rid of that asshole husband of yours. Did he agree with that? “ My best friend, Stella, asked.
“ Yes, but I'm staying with the kids as their nanny.”
“ Look, Katherine, I know you love those children, but you need to think about yourself, you can't live as a nun for the rest of your life raising the children while that bastard is having the best of his life with other women; you need to meet a decent man, get married to him, and build a family with him.”
“ No, I can't leave my children; they need me!”
“ Oh, Kate, you're a hopeless case; at least find a boyfriend; who knows, maybe you will change your mind one day.”
“ I will think about that.”
She felt someone was poking her shoulders repeatedly.
“What the… oh my God, Danny. “ She threw herself at him and hugged tightly.
“ When did you come back from Italy?” she asked, surprised.
“ Yesterday”
She turned to her best friend.
“ Did you know he'd be coming? “ She gave her a suspicious look.
“ Yes, he wanted to surprise you. “
“ b***h,“ she mouthed.
Danny was her best friend from high school. When he graduated from college, he went to Italy to handle his family business there.
“ Are you moving back permanently or are you just visiting?”
“No, I'm here for good.”
“ Wow, that's great news.”
Her phone rings, interrupting their conversation.
She looks up and it's her husband calling.
She picked
“ Where are you!?" I just came home, and you are not there. Where did you go? Clara is crying, asking for you. “
“ I'm coming right now.” She hangs up the phone.
“ I'm sorry, I need to go home,“ she said to her friends.
She grabbed her bag ready to go.
“ I will give you a ride,“ Danny offered.
“ No, no need, I will take a cab. I don't want to bother you. ”
“ I insist,“ he said.
“ Okay, thank you.”
◇Dean◇
He took the kids to his parents' home, and his mother asked his children to have dinner with them. She asked him not to bring kate with me. His family didn't like his second wife because she came from a poor family and had no class. They never hid their hatred for her, they never missed a chance to humiliate her, but she stood to herself, taking their insults silently to think of it. He never defended it or took her side. Only his sister, Ashley, cared for her and was always against me and my family. Against him and his family.
His train of thought was interrupted by the sound of a car engine.
He looked from his office window, and there his wife hopped out of a man's car. She was smiling at him, she was wearing a crop top and high-waisted jeans, they exchanged phone numbers, then she hugged him goodbye, his hands were on her beautifully tuned bare waist, they pulled out of each other embrace, then he kissed her cheek, and it took all of him not to go there and confront her about the guy's identity.
She waved at him and went into the mansion.
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Later at night, he couldn't sleep; he couldn't lie. That guy kinda irritated him; they looked so close, and she was glowing with him.
He wanted to know who he was and how long they had been together; one second, she confessed her love for him, and the other, she was in the arms of another man.
He threw the bed cover over himself and left the bed; in an instant, he stood before her bedroom door.
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