After Five Years Of Marriage

Chapter 3

Jessica shook her head in the bathtub, as she knew that Dylan usually made love to her in the bathroom whenever they bathed together as a couple, and now he was avoiding her.

She resumed bathing in the white bathtub with her sponge, soap, and water.

After she was through with her bath, she rinsed her body and walked out of the bathroom into the bedroom to dress up.

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Dylan had worn his white night robe and sat on the bed to sleep, as he was feeling tipsy from the alcoholic drink he had consumed at Rosie’s home.

Dylan saw Jessica step out of the bathroom, but he swiftly looked away from her and stared at the wall as he lay on the bed.

Similarly, Dylan turned his back on Jessica and faced the wall. She frowned at her husband’s behaviour and knew that he was truly avoiding her.

Jessica walked up to their wardrobe to take out a nightgown. She tried hard not to cry, as she did not want to divorce Dylan.

She knew that he had been behaving strangely lately, even before he was absent from home for two days in a row. She wondered, “Who is the new woman in his life now?”

Jessica stood searching for a nightgown for hours. Even after she had touched the white nightgown she wanted to wear, she stood beside the wardrobe, lost in thought, as hot tears streamed down her eyes.

Jessica finally snapped out of her trance, took out the white nightgown she had been holding, and wore it as she stared back at her sleeping husband on the bed.

Her eyes moved to the divorce papers on the headboard. She shook her head sadly and walked up to the bed to join her husband.

Dylan was fast asleep on the bed, but as Jessica climbed onto it, he felt her heavy weight press down on the mattress. His blue eyes opened slightly as he stared at the pretty woman’s face beside him.

Seeing that the pretty woman was his wife, whom he was about to divorce, and that she was sobbing, Dylan sat up on the bed and sleepily asked her, “What’s wrong, babe?”

Jessica sniffled and wanted to reply to her husband, but Dylan sleepily lay back on the bed and fell asleep again.

The alcohol had not worn off yet, and he was exhausted. He had spent most of the time since closing from work at 5 p.m. with Rosie in her room, and he needed to rest.

Dylan turned his back on Jessica, adjusted his pillow properly beneath his head, and rested his head on it.

He resumed sleeping while Jessica blinked away her tears. She sat on the bed and looked at her sleeping husband for a moment.

Not wanting to accept the fact that they were going to divorce the following day, Jessica decided to be the good wife she was. She wrapped her left arm around Dylan’s waist and moved closer to him on the bed as he had his back to her.

She cuddled up beside him, inhaling his manly scent as she hugged him to find warmth.

Jessica rested her head on Dylan’s left arm and caressed his face and jaw. But, Dylan inhaled Jessica’s sweet blossom scent, and his eyes opened slightly again. He sprang up from the bed, even in his drunken state, and pushed Jessica’s arm away from him.

Dylan looked at Jessica angrily and asked her, “What’s wrong with you, Jessica? Why won’t you let me sleep tonight?”

Dylan sat on the bed with Jessica and noticed that she was not wearing a bra beneath her large breasts. Her white nightgown was almost transparent and revealed her breasts.

Dylan looked away, and Jessica replied, “I want you, Dylan.”

“But I don’t want you anymore, Jessica. I want a divorce, and you should sign the divorce papers tomorrow and leave! I’m not joking about it,” Dylan said curtly. He immediately took his pillow from the bed, drunkenly stepped down, and put on his black slippers.

Dylan walked towards the door, but Jessica tried to stop him from leaving by holding onto his pillow.

Dylan snatched it away from Jessica and walked out of the room, leaving her alone in their master bedroom.

She cried out, “No, sweetheart! Wait! Where are you going?”

Jessica hurriedly stepped down from the bed and chased after Dylan as he exited the sitting room upstairs and went downstairs to sleep in the guest room.

“Dylan! Open this door!” Jessica stood in front of the guest-room door and banged on it heavily, asking Dylan to unlock it from within. He had locked the door from the inside.

Dylan ignored Jessica and went to the bed in the guest room to sleep because she wanted to seduce him in their bedroom.

“Dylan! Open this door now! It’s me, your wife!” Jessica cried out as she stood in front of the guest-room door and banged heavily on it.

She looked at the clock in the corridor and saw that it was after midnight.

Jessica shook her head and went back upstairs to their master bedroom to sleep alone, as she did not want to wake their kids. The master bedroom was the biggest room in the mansion. She walked towards the king-sized bed, which was covered with a white bedspread, and climbed onto it slowly to sleep. She lay on the bed and tried to sleep.

It was Wednesday night, and Jessica knew that her two kids would be going to school the following Thursday morning, as they attended a day school.

She knew that she had to sleep on time so that she could wake up very early the following morning and prepare her two kids for school.

But sleep was far from her eyes. She kept crying on the bed and thinking about the new woman who had come into her husband’s life to destroy her marriage and break up her previously happy home.

Jessica continued thinking about how she would lose weight to impress Dylan and become the slim woman he wanted again.

She knew that she had tried to lose weight before, but it had not been easy for her, as she loved eating a lot of food and sleeping. She was always at home and no longer went out to work.

Jessica had spoken to her best friend, Esther Friday, about her plans to lose more weight. Esther had advised her that the best way to lose weight was to go to the gym.

Yet, she had been exercising daily, but losing weight had not been easy for her.

Jessica sniffled on the bed and fell asleep. She dreamt that a beautiful, short, fair-skinned woman walked into her home with a large black travelling box filled with clothes in her hand. The short woman was not Jessica in the dream, as she was taller.

The short woman looked at Jessica irritably and ordered her to serve her meals.

Jessica saw herself serving the beautiful, slim woman in her dream as the woman sent her away from her husband’s home. She tried to plead with the woman.

“Please, you cannot send me away from my husband’s house. Leave Dylan alone so that he can look at me, his wife.”

But the woman replied, “No. I have known Dylan for longer than you have, and your time in his life is over, so go away.”

Jessica saw Dylan throw her box of clothes outside their matrimonial home. He did not even care that their kids were present. He told her, “Leave my house, Jessica. This marriage is over between us. Go away and get out of my life!”

“No, Dylan! Please… Don’t send me away. I love you. Please, Dylan…”

Jessica continued struggling on the bed in her sleep as she lay on the luxurious white bed in the master bedroom and dreamed.

She continued pleading with Dylan in her dream. “Please, Dylan, don’t send me away. Please…”

Jessica watched as Dylan rushed towards her in the dream and dragged her by her left wrist to throw her outside their mansion. She cried out to him even more.

“Please, Dylan! You cannot send me away, Dylan! Dylan! Dylan, please!”

“I’m here, Jessica! Wake up!” Dylan shook Jessica vigorously on the bed to wake her up. He sat beside her and shook her again and again to wake her from her nightmare.

Dylan had woken up in the guest room where he had slept the previous night. He had a headache and remembered that he had returned home the previous night with the divorce papers Rosie Andrew had given him to take home and give to Jessica. He had asked Jessica to sign them.