Sadistic Obsession

Today was our second wedding anniversary. My husband, Kade Storm, will surely be home earlier than usual like the last time we celebrated our anniversary. Hence, I started cooking early, too. However, while in the middle of putting frosting on the cake, a booming voice laced with rage rattled me. "Reyna!" I couldn't be wrong. That was my husband. He also never once called me by my name ever since we started dating up until now. I could not help but wonder what changed today. I set aside the cake and rushed to the living room, where I found him clearly mad. “Hun, what’s wrong?” I asked, taken aback when he stared at me with an icy glare. “You f*****g traitor,” he responded with a clenched jaw. From that alone, I could tell he was holding back. Kade strode close and suddenly gripped my arm so tight I cannot help but wince in pain. “W-What do you mean? What happened?” Despite the fear in me, I tried my hardest to stay calm. What I also did not expect was him pushing me away causing me to fall on the ground as if I disgusted him. He then threw several papers right on my face before letting out a curse under his breath. “One question, one answer. Are those your signatures?” he asked, tone clipped and firm. I did not answer immediately. My chest tightened as I picked up each document from the floor as his sharp glare was still on me. My eyes scanned what the documents were about and on several pages, my signature was fixed. For some reason, the hair behind my back stood at their ends as it felt like a bucket of cold water poured all over me. It was an agreement ending the contract between Levanti Motors and Helixon Systems, a machinery and equipment provider company, that had produced quality equipment for the manufacturing of the new car designs of Levanti, the very company that my husband managed which he and his family owned. I double checked... triple checked even just to make sure if these were my signatures, but... They were. How was this even possible? “Yes… This is my signature, but I never once signed these d-documents,” I muttered, my voice breaking upon seeing the amount released by Levanti Motors—a billion dollars. That amount was surely something I could never hold even if I was married to one of the top wealthiest businessman in the world. As I tried to process what I just read, Kade gripped my jaw and forced me to look him straight in the eyes. “Helixon never received the amount so it is good news that the contract has been void. However, that one billion dollars is missing. Where is it?” Tears blurred my vision. His tone, his gaze, and his words told me that he was not giving me even a tiny bit of benefit of the doubt. He was so fixed that I stole from him. Still… I shook my head. “I do not have it, Hun. I have no idea where it is…” A sob left my lips. “P-Please… Believe m-me…” He let go of me and ran his hands over his face. A smirk tugged at his lips before a chuckle left his mouth. “Reyna… You know you can ask me for any amount of money, right?” His expression gree darker. I could only reply with a small nod. “Then, why the f**k did you steal from the company?” he shouted, his voice filling every corner of the house. I flinched. A flicker of worry crossed his eyes, but it immediately vanished that it made me doubt myself if it was even real... Or it might just be me assuming things. But I prayed it was real because then... It meant Kade still cared about me. “No… H-Hun…” I pleaded after composing mysslf. “I… I did not steal a-anything.” “Then, explain the f*****g signatures!” “I did not sign them.” I forced myself to stand and approached him. I held his hands, but he immediately swatted my hands away and took several steps back. “I swear, Hun… I would never steal from you,” I said after wiping away the tears that managed to escape. “You know me… For the past few years, I never stole a single penny. I never thought or even considered doing it.” “Your fingerprint is all over the documents before they reached me. Do you know that? I would have believed you if those fingerprints weren’t there, but… f**k!” I wanted to speak. I wanted to insist that I never betrayed him, but it felt like the more I say it, the more unconvincing I sound. Kade turned to me. The warmth in his eyes was long gone. Hatred burned in them for something I never even did. “Leave.” My eyes widened. My body stilled at that one word. “W-What?” “I want you to leave the f*****g house before I get back home tonight.” He took long strides to tower over me before gripping my jaw once more with just one hand. “If I find you still in this house, you will pay me double the amount you stole or f*****g rot in jail.” His words felt like a decree. Final and irrevocable. This time, my body trembled at the ultimatum he gave me. “You can keep the money and shove it into your mouth to your heart’s content, but expect no alimony on our divorce. Do you understand that, gold digger?” "D-Divorce?" He chuckled. It was not out of amusement, but rather... It sounded dark and mocking. "Why? Do you think I will forgive you because of love?" He took a step closer. "Of course not because you only proved how unworthy you are of it." My body ran cold as his words cut through me like a thousand knives over and over again. Never in my life did I ever expect him to say such things. This accusation, his anger, his piercing words. “Hun… Please, I have no idea how my fingerprints and signature were on those documents, but please believe me… I never signed anything. I would never steal from you. I would never betray your trust and love because I…” My voice broke… “Because I love you. Please…” “Don't test my patience, Reyna. I want you to disappear from this house today,” he reiterated.