She Threw Him Away… Now He’s Untouchable

CHAPTER 5

“Marry you?”

Alexander repeated the words slowly, his voice dropping so low it was almost a growl. He took a step closer to Bella, towering over her, and the look in his eyes… it wasn’t love anymore. It wasn’t even affection. It was pure, unfiltered disgust.

Bella stumbled back a little, her fake smile wavering, tears still streaming down her face—tears she had practiced shedding perfectly for years. She clutched his arm tighter, trying to hold onto the man she thought she had wrapped around her finger.

“Alexander… please,” she sobbed, voice trembling, putting on her best act of hurt innocence. “You promised me! You said once the divorce was finalized, once that woman was gone, you’d make me Mrs. Knight! I’ve been by your side for three years! I loved you! I was the one who told you the truth about her—how cold she was, how she never cared, how she was just using you!”

Alexander didn’t move. He didn’t pull his arm away yet. He just stood there, staring at her, and in his head, everything started crashing down. Every single thing she had ever said to him started playing on a loop.

“Sir, she’s out late again… probably meeting someone.”

“Her family is nobody, Alexander. You’re way above her level.”

“Sign the papers fast. She’s just waiting to take everything from you.”

He had believed it all. Every single lie. Because Bella was there. Bella was sweet. Bella agreed with him. Bella made him feel smart and powerful.

But now… now he knew the truth.

He knew Evelyn wasn’t poor. She was the richest woman in the country.

He knew Evelyn wasn’t cold. She had loved him silently while he treated her like dirt.

He knew Evelyn wasn’t using him. He was the one living off her family’s money this whole time.

And suddenly, it all made sense.

“You told me…” Alexander whispered, his voice cracking with rage. He reached up and grabbed her wrist, not hard enough to hurt, but firm enough to make her let go of his suit. “You told me she was poor. You told me she had no background. You told me cutting her off wouldn’t hurt the company.”

Bella’s eyes widened. Her heart skipped a beat. For a second, the act slipped completely, and real panic flashed across her face. She tried to pull her hand back, laughing nervously.

“I… I was just saying what I thought was true! How was I supposed to know she was hiding something?! Alexander, why are you looking at me like this? I did it all for us! For our future!”

“Liar.”

The word came out sharp and cold like a knife.

Alexander stepped back, shaking his head slowly, looking at her like she was a stranger. Like she was a parasite he had just found stuck to his skin.

“You knew, Bella.” He said it clearly, loud enough for the few employees still lingering in the hallway to hear. “You knew exactly who she was. You knew the Knight Group survived only because of her family’s funding. You knew that without her, I’m nothing. And you didn’t tell me.”

He laughed then—a harsh, broken sound that made her flinch.

“Instead… you whispered lies in my ear every single day. You twisted every word she said. You pushed me to sign those papers faster. You convinced me to throw away the only thing keeping me and this whole company alive… just so you could wear a diamond ring and call yourself my wife.”

Bella’s face turned pale. All the blood drained right out of it. She looked around desperately, seeing people peeking out from offices, whispering, staring at her. She tried to reach for him again, voice turning shrill and desperate.

“That’s not true! I loved you! I did it because I love you! She didn’t deserve you! She was boring, she was cold, she didn’t give you what I gave you!”

“And you did?” Alexander snapped, his patience finally shattering completely. He raised his voice, roaring at her, letting all his anger, regret, and humiliation pour out. “You gave me lies! You gave me manipulation! You gave me the worst mistake of my life! I lost everything, Bella! I lost my wife, I lost my son—”

He stopped abruptly. He hadn’t even realized he said it out loud. My son.

His breath hitched. His mind flashed back to Evelyn holding her stomach, to the way she looked at him before she left, to her words: “You threw away the only person who carries your blood.”

He gripped his hair with both hands, feeling like he was going insane.

“She was pregnant,” he whispered, staring right through Bella. “She was pregnant with my child… and you helped me kick her out onto the street. You helped me throw my own family away.”

Bella was crying real tears now—tears of fear, tears of failure. She fell to her knees on the hard marble floor, ruining her expensive dress, looking up at him with pure terror in her eyes.

“No… Alexander… please… I didn’t know… I swear I didn’t know…”

“You knew enough to keep your mouth shut,” Alexander spat out, looking down at her with absolutely no mercy. “You knew enough to make sure I never found out who she really was. You used my arrogance, my stupidity, my blind trust… and you destroyed everything I had.”

He took a deep breath, straightened his coat, and looked at her one last time. The woman he once thought was perfect, loyal, and the only one who understood him.

She was nothing. Just a liar. Just a traitor.

“Get up.” His voice was calm now. Deadly calm. “Pack your things. Get out of this building. And get out of my life.”

Bella froze. She scrambled up from the floor, grabbing his leg, clinging to him, sobbing uncontrollably.

“No! You can’t do this! I love you! I gave you three years of my life! You owe me! Alexander, please… I’ll do anything… don’t throw me away like trash…”

Alexander looked down at her hands gripping his leg. He remembered how he used to love this. How he used to think she was so fragile and needy and perfect.

Now it just made him sick.

He kicked her hand away roughly, stepping back like she was filth.

“I owe you?” He sneered, eyes cold and hard as stone. “I owe you nothing, Bella. In fact… you owe me. You helped ruin the only good thing I ever had. You helped me lose the woman I should have spent my life worshipping.”

He turned toward the elevator, pressing the button hard, refusing to look at her crying form on the floor anymore.

“And let me tell you something… you wanted to be Mrs. Knight so bad? You wanted the money, the status, the power?”

He glanced back over his shoulder, a bitter, terrifying smile on his face.

“Take a good look around, Bella. There is nothing left. The company is dying. The money is gone. The name Knight is a joke now. You didn’t steal a throne… you just stole a pile of rubble. And you can have it. I don’t want it anymore.”

The elevator doors slid open.

“Security!” Alexander called out loud and clear. Two big guards appeared immediately from down the hall, having heard everything. “Escort Ms. Bella out. Make sure she doesn’t take anything that doesn’t belong to her. And change all the locks. She is never, ever allowed back in here again.”

“Alexander! No! Please! I’ll tell you everything! I know things! Please don’t do this!” Bella screamed, struggling as the guards grabbed her arms, dragging her toward the exit.

Alexander stepped inside the elevator. He didn’t look back. He watched her being pulled away, screaming his name, crying, begging… and he felt absolutely nothing.

Nothing but relief that the liar was finally gone.

The doors closed, cutting off her voice.

Silence.

Alexander leaned back against the elevator wall, closing his eyes, letting out a long, shaky breath. His whole body was trembling—not from fear, but from the realization of just how deep the betrayal went.

She wasn’t just a mistress. She wasn’t just a gold digger. She was the knife in his back that made sure he destroyed his own happiness.

And now she was gone.

But the damage was done.

He pulled out his phone, staring at the photo of Evelyn again. Evelyn as a queen. Evelyn free. Evelyn rich and powerful and gone.

He touched the screen gently, tracing her face with his finger.

“I got rid of her, Evelyn. I got rid of the liar. I punished her just like she deserved.”

He whispered to the empty elevator, voice thick with pain and desperate longing.

“Now… is it my turn? Is it my turn to beg? Is it my turn to pay for every mistake I made? Because I will. I’ll pay everything. I’ll give everything. Just… tell me where you are. Tell me where my son is.”

The elevator dinged, reaching the lobby.

Alexander stepped out into the rainy night again, rain hitting his face hard, washing away the last traces of the man he used to be—the arrogant, blind, stupid man who listened to lies and threw away his world.

He looked up at the dark sky, determination burning bright in his eyes now, sharper and stronger than before.

Bella was out of the picture. The lies were exposed.

Now… the real chase began.

Now… he had to face the truth.

And somewhere deep down… he knew it wasn’t going to be easy. Because he remembered the news, the photos… the two men standing next to her.

Dr. Liam Carter.

Elias Vance.

Men who weren’t liars. Men who weren’t traitors. Men who were everything he wasn’t.

He clenched his fists at his sides, jaw tight.

“You have protectors now, Evelyn? You have men who treat you like a goddess? Fine.”

He started walking out into the rain, head held high, a terrifying, obsessive resolve taking over his heart.

“Let them come. Let them try to stop me. I don’t care who stands in my way… doctors, lawyers, rivals… or my own family.”

“I’m going to get you back. And I’m going to spend the rest of my life proving to you… and to our son… that I am worth saving.”