Forgive me, dear ex-wife

CHAPTER 1 Willa’s POV “I said WE ARE DONE! Have you suddenly gone deaf?!” the mansion thundered with the rage of Damian as he glared at me with a dead expression, his eyes red and distant. I remained still, my eyes filled and puffy with tears, my vision obscured. I loved this man despite what brought us together from the start. I knew what kept us bound together. But we got married. We had Emily together. It all felt real, so why … why the change of heart all of a sudden? “But … I thought …” was all I managed to say. He rolled his eyes in contempt, a habit he exposes when he’s trying to retain his anger. This is one of the hundreds of little but noticeable things I’ve known about him. I wanted to know if all those years with him meant nothing. There was no point denying it, at this point; it would break me, but I still wanted to know. “Damian, all these years… we’ve been good…” “Yes, we have and now we are not and I want you gone!” A lot of things were running through my mind. He wanted me gone, he wanted me to leave with no explanation. “You can’t just ask me to leave… I am your f*****g wife, Damian!” Nothing was making sense anymore, hard as I tried, I felt my body tremble in pain, in anger. What has suddenly gotten into him? Damian chuckled, “I made you my wife. I made you who you are today…” he gave me a long look of disgust, “No one knew your name, hell! No one knew who the f**k you were until you got married to me.” I shook my head and swallowed forcefully pushing down the sob that threatened to burst out of my throat. “f**k you!” I whispered. It was the only thing I could come up with. The only answer I had for all of these. His eyes hardened but he didn’t say a word. I shook my head, no, he needed to give me answers. This wasn’t it. This wasn’t what I signed up for. “Why? Why do you want me to leave all of a sudden?” I questioned. He shook his head, “because this… us… it was never going to work and I was just too stupid to have thought that it would.” I opened my mouth to speak again but his voice cut me off. “I have had enough, Willa. Just get your things and leave! f*****g leave! I have no space for a gold digger.” After everything that we have been true. I knew his friends were against us being together, hell, even his family hadn’t been in support of our relationship but Damian had proven to them that we were in love, I thought he knew that I was in love with him and not his money but I guess I was just been a fool who thought that something good would ever come out from our union. “You want me to leave?” I questioned calmly, surprising even myself. He glared at me. “I didn’t stutter when I said that” I nodded. “If I leave you will never see me again Damien, you will never see me or the kids.” “Oh, I will.” He gritted out. “Because you will be leaving but without them.” My body trembled in anger. I didn’t even know if I was mad that he had walked in half drunk and demanded that I leave his house and life or if I was mad because he thought that I was going to leave my kids. “I think you must have forgotten something, Damien. Those kids are mine just as much as they are yours.” I said with intense anger that I was sure he would see it burning in my eyes but Damien laughed, he f*****g laughed. “And how do you intend to take care of them?” I swallowed. “Let’s be honest here, you’ve got nothing to your name, you are as empty as an empty vessel.” He walked up to me almost sharing the same air with me. “I will never allow my kids to live in such condition.” He straightened up, “Besides, Annabelle is back and she will take good care of them.” I stood frozen as it all began to make sense now, why he had demanded that I leave. Annabelle was Damien’s long time ex girlfriend, well so I thought until now. She had dumped him to go for a richer old money bag and I guess now she’s back. “So all this is because of her?!” I questioned. I could feel my eyes swell up again. I legit thought that she was in the past, out of our lives. I met Damien in a bar five years ago drinking himself into a stupor when I had helped him. Annabelle had just broken up with him Damien remained quiet. “f*****g answer me!” I yelled out. He nodded. “You knew I have always loved her.” That single statement broke me. It broke every resolve that I had in me. I have loved him. I have always loved him and my feelings for him have always been genuine and here I was hearing that I have never been loved those six years that we’ve been together. “Yeah,” I smiled sadly. I was just the rebound and now Annabelle is back. God this hurt a lot. I couldn’t breathe properly. My heart was hurting as if someone had plunged a hot iron into my chest, twisting and turning. I fell to the ground, my last shred of dignity leaving me. “I will leave,” I stated once again as if I hadn’t said it before but I was going to come back for my kids. He was right. I had no job, no home. I wouldn’t be able to properly feed myself alone not to talk of two little kids who were barely five and three. “Good,” Damien stated and then walked out of the living room and went upstairs while I cried out my eyes on the floor.