2: Avoiding her

Jessica entered their bedroom, still holding the divorce papers in her hands, and saw Dylan stripping off his suit as he stood unclad in their bedroom, preparing to take his bath.

She gulped hard as her blue eyes came in contact with her husband's hard body. Although he looked as though he wasn't aging at all, he had matured and was not the same man she had initially married five years ago.

Jessica remembered how her father had rejected Dylan. Her family had a personal hatred for poor people, and she had begged her family on his behalf, even acting angry with her own parents, just so they would approve of Dylan and accept him as her husband.

She supported his business to grow, and now that he was a billionaire, blessed with two beautiful kids, Dylan was speaking to her about divorce and beginning to have a double mindset about their five years of marriage.

Jessica knew that marriage wasn't "a do or die affair." But she had tried to be the good wife she could be to Dylan by waking up very early in the morning to prepare his breakfast and help their kids get ready for school. 

She had to prepare them very early each morning to take them to school, and she would still go back to their school after closing hours to bring them home.

Jessica realized that she had paused her life to help Dylan build his own life and their family by caring for their two kids at home and becoming a full-time housewife. Now Dylan was telling her about a divorce and that their five years of marriage was over.

"Dylan," Jessica called her husband to gain his attention, and he turned around to face her, now completely undressed.

"What is it? Have you signed the divorce papers now?" Dylan asked, staring at Jessica's face coldly.

"No, Dylan. We cannot divorce. I cannot agree to divorce you, and you know that I love you very much," Jessica replied, wanting to believe that her husband had spoken to her about divorce out of his drunken state.

She walked up to him and tried to embrace him where he stood in the middle of their bedroom, reaching out to touch his hard, bronze-chiseled chest. However, Dylan quickly caught her right hand before she could feel his hardness.

He shoved her hand down beside her and told her, "You have no right to my body again, Jessica! The sooner you sign those divorce papers and leave, the better for you. Go back to your father's house and find another man who will marry you."

"Dylan!" Jessica looked puzzled and heartbroken by her husband's statement, her blue eyes immediately turning red and welling up with tears.

She questioned him, "So you're cheating on me now, Dylan? That you can confidently tell me to leave and go back to my parents' house and find another man to marry? Is that how much hatred you have for me now?"

Dylan ignored Jessica's questions as he stood there unclad, feeling her eyes all over his bare body.

Dylan immediately walked into the bathroom to bathe while Jessica stood speechless in the bedroom, still holding the divorce papers.

Jessica missed her husband and wanted him to make love to her. She hoped that when Dylan returned home, he would apologize for being away for two days, but instead, he was speaking to her about divorce and telling her that she had no access to his body again. Thereby, depriving her of her conjugal rights.

Jessica looked at the divorce papers in her hands again as the white light bulb in the bedroom illuminated the white-painted room.

She walked up to their headboard and placed the divorce papers safely there.

She stripped off her clothes and decided to join Dylan in bathing, believing that he was still joking and acting this way due to his alcohol intake.

Jessica stripped herself nàked and walked into the bathroom to join her husband, intending to give him a taste of the same level of torture he had just inflicted on her.

She was a thick, blonde woman with a pointed nose, blue mesmerising eyes, and long golden hair.

Jessica knew that she had a very nice curvy shape; even after birthing two beautiful children, she still looked cute. Many mature men still wooed her and asked her out on dates, but she was a faithful woman who loved Dylan very much and couldn't cheat on him.

Jessica had never looked down on Dylan before, not even when he was poor and managing on his own.

She loved him deeply, respected him, supported him, and made love to him however he wanted, as Dylan was a sex enthusiast. They were also blessed with two beautiful children.

Jessica remembered that she had met Dylan at a fuel station where he worked as an attendant. He had sold fuel into her car on the first day they met. She quickly walked into the bathroom to join her husband in bathing, before he finished his bath or stepped out of the bathroom.

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Dylan was standing under the shower tap, as he didn't use the white bathtub for bathing. He saw Jessica walk into the bathroom to join him, and her sèxy body made him aroused immediately.

Dylan swiftly turned away from Jessica as he hastened his bath and turned on the shower to rinse off the soap from his body, even though he had not yet finished bathing.

Dylan rushed out of the bathroom, not wanting to spend any more time there with Jessica, knowing that he would end up making love to her, which he wouldn't be able to resist either.

Jessica stood speechless in the bathroom, shaking her head in sadness as she saw Dylan run out.

She murmured, "What's wrong with him? Why is he behaving strangely like this?"

Seeing Dylan rush out, Jessica walked up to the white bathtub to bathe, as she typically used it for her baths.

She stepped into the bathtub and started scrubbing her body.

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Dylan walked into the master bedroom, knowing he wanted to divorce Jessica simply because his first love, Rosie Andrew, was back in the country.

Rosie had visited him at his company and inside his office too, where she cried to him and asked, "Why, Dylan? Why didn't you wait for me to return home before you went ahead and married another woman after ten years of knowing me and proposing to marry me first?"

Dylan knew that he had promised Rosie in the past that he would marry her when he initially deflowered her. He had been her first lover, but he wasn't the first man to deflower Jessica. However, Jessica was still a kind-hearted woman to him, and the most genuine lady he had ever met.

No matter what he had done to make Jessica annoyed or to break up with him, Jessica never got angry; she mostly overlooked everything.

Dylan had told Jessica before that she couldn't keep going to work and ignore taking care of him and their two children at home while leaving all the work to their maid. Did she want the maid to warm his bed?

Jessica happily quit her job as a banker at a big bank just to please him.

Jessica's car had broken down in the third year of their marriage, after Nina's birth. The car couldn't work properly without a qualified mechanic to repair it, however Dylan refused to repair her car or replace it with a new one, even though he was a billionaire.

Instead, he bought a new car for himself to irritate Jessica and see if she would get annoyed and leave his house by divorcing him. But Jessica ignored him and managed her old car or used public transportation instead, until she fixed her car. Since he refused to buy her a new car.

Jessica refused to leave his home; she went to repair her car herself, and he reduced the amount of money he usually gave her weekly for food to care for their home and their two kids. He reminded her, "You are too fat now, Jessica, and you should be eating only once a day so that you can lose weight. This amount will be enough for you and our two kids; manage it. Don't you watch your weight at all, Jessica? Just two kids, and you're already looking like my mother's age mate."

Jessica smiled at him and replied, "But I'm still beautiful, Dylan, and you don't expect me to remain the same 22-year-old Jessica Albert that you met and married. I am 27 years old now, and it's expected for me to have changed, as change is always constant. Even you, my husband, have changed; and you look more mature and handsome than when we got married. So you're changing too, my love."

Dylan frowned, realizing that Jessica knew how to smile through every difficult situation with him. 

She never got angry with him, nagged him or looked down on him. 

Nor did she compared him to other successful billionaires in their state. She always encouraged him never to give up in life, and he felt frustrated about how to divorce the kind-hearted woman he had married.