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Divorced My CEO Husband, Married to His Enemy Chapter 1
ClaireMy hands ran cold as I stepped into the party. It was my first time out in society in three years.My husband, Gerald, and I had a wedding because I was carrying his baby. But my car skidded off the road in Atlanta, where I had been headed for a skiing trip. It had crashed.When I awoke a week later, a nurse had given me the unfortunate news. I had lost our baby. The child had been a baby girl. The hospital’s fluorescent lights had only further sharpened my pain. We had held a small funeral service and on the way back, Gerald had held my hand in between my sobs. “I'll arrange for you to see a therapist,” he told me one day, “if you need one.”We lived in a mansion in Massachusetts so I had had ample space in my retreat. Gerald owned a business empire in tech and recently, his team had developed Treble, a social media app that allowed people to share their thoughts and feelings musically.I constantly felt as though I was alone even though we were living in the same house. When
Divorced My CEO Husband, Married to His Enemy Chapter 2
ClaireThis wasn’t the first time that I had considered divorcing him either. Between the long periods of neglect and inattentiveness that Gerald had put me through, there had been his mother. Agatha had never approved of our marriage.Gerald was an old-money businessman with an empire that spanned across the Americas, Vietnam, and Cambodia. I was the daughter of an electrical engineer who had majored in Marketing as a scholarship student. Gerald had been my classmate in college and we had gotten married because I was pregnant. I had thought that, after tonight, everything would change and I would publicly spend the rest of my life being celebrated as his wife.But I had learned the bitter truth: that he had never publicized our marriage because he was dating another woman.I came home, crumpled and teary-eyed. The lobby lights were switched on and the staff was nowhere to be seen. And then Agatha stepped out of the drawing room.“Finally home, are we?” she murmured in a murderously
Divorced My CEO Husband, Married to His Enemy Chapter 3
ClaireAll he did was shake his head and then doze off to sleep. I stood there in the dim light from the lamps outside the window. The gentle hum of the air conditioning was the only noise here apart from his snoring.I stared at him for a minute. How could he be so ruthlessly indifferent to the pain that he had caused me? In the early days after our wedding, I had tried to show him that I loved him. But he had tip-toed around our marriage as though he were ashamed of it. I had never expected much from my marriage, having seen that love was something not everyone got to have. My parents had always bickered with each other. They had never gotten along. So, I had made my peace with the idea that regardless of how absent Gerald was from my life, at least we weren’t always hurling insults at one another. But this? Bringing a curvy actress into the picture to show me what I was missing? That was a blow below the belt. I woke up in the morning to make my way to the bathroom and realized
Divorced My CEO Husband, Married to His Enemy Chapter 4
ClaireThe security guards took hold of me by either arm as Gerald stood in front of me. “Let go of me!” I exclaimed, trying to shake them off, “I can walk by myself!”They barely loosened their grip.“Make sure you escort her to the exit of the building,” Gerald said. He had already dialed an ambulance and I had heard them take Christina away. I had been standing there, shaking and crying, begging for Gerald to listen to me.The only emotion on his face was that of pure, unadulterated loathing.The journey from the top floor to the ground floor exit was one of the longest in my entire life.I wiped the tears off my face before stepping down from the first flight of stairs.It seemed that every single employee in Gerald’s company had abandoned work to come examine me. I was overwhelmed by the dense din of murmuring as people stared shiftily at me everywhere.Their faces bore twisted expressions -- a mixture of curiosity, disgust, and surprise.And not one person knew who I was. They w
Divorced My CEO Husband, Married to His Enemy Chapter 5
GeraldI was beside myself with panic and worry when I arrived at the hospital fifteen minutes ago. Shaking and sweating, I darted off to the reception. They told me that Christina had been taken into the emergency room.I sat down in the waiting room outside. I had my head clutched in both of my arms and was doing all I could to stop myself from breaking down in despair. Beyond the white doors in front of me, the doctors were resuscitating the woman I loved.I could not believe that this was happening. How could Claire have done such a thing?I could not imagine the pain that Christina was going through right now. My heart ached for her delicate body which had so viciously been thrust down such a steep flight of stairs.Who could treat someone this way? How could Claire have stooped so low? I had never known much about Claire despite the fact that we had been married for years.Three years ago, Christina had left for Paris to pursue her passion for ballet. When she told me, I felt my
Divorced My CEO Husband, Married to His Enemy Chapter 6
ClaireI’m pregnant? It could not be. I had not been well when I lost the first baby. It had taken a lot to pull myself back together. And the loss had left a dark pit in my heart.I had tried to fill the void by having another child. Gerald had been away for weeks and I had spent the entire time fantasizing. The images in my mind had revived my spirit.Then, Gerald had returned and I had told him what I thought.“Let’s make a baby,” I had murmured, stroking his chest. “Claire,” he had stared blankly at me, “I don’t think that’s a good idea.”We had barely touched each other since, let alone be intimate with each other. But – I gasped as I remembered – something had happened a few weeks ago!That day, I had been combing my hair when Gerald had walked in through the door. He had been carrying a gift bag that he shifted to his other hand – where I could not see – as soon as he crossed the threshold. I turned back towards the dresser with a sly smile.It was our third wedding anniversar
Divorced My CEO Husband, Married to His Enemy Chapter 7
ClaireJennifer had already left for work when I woke up the next morning. The sun shone bright through the large glass windows into the luxurious guest bedroom that Jennifer had set up for me.I got up, took a shower, and brushed my teeth. Wrapping a bath robe around myself, I stepped into the bedroom. Someone knocked on the door.“Come in,” I said, a little apprehensive. I breathed when the maid entered the room. She was carrying a basket full of freshly laundered, ironed clothes.“Miss Morrison said to give you these,” she said. I thanked her and the maid left. I pulled out a T-shirt and a pair of jeans. The basket also contained fresh underwear. I was grateful. After getting dressed, I put on a pair of bedroom slippers and prepared to head downstairs for breakfast.Jennifer had given me a laptop last night. I took it downstairs with me and edited my resume as I ate my breakfast.Just then, my phone chimed. It was Harry.“Claire, I need $50,000 fast,” read the text.Harry was my yo
Divorced My CEO Husband, Married to His Enemy Chapter 8
ClaireI had to strain myself to prevent my jaw from dropping. This was the same man who saved me the other day!He had been the one who picked me up and took me to the hospital when I had fainted.And now he was interviewing me. I was amazed at the striking coincidence. Or, maybe it was just a really small world.I blushed a little at the embarrassing memory of me fainting in his arm but then smiled. “Thank you so much, sir,” I said to him.“You’re welcome,” he replied warmly and then turned towards the screen on his laptop computer. Then, they began to ask the questions.“Have you gained any new qualifications recently, Miss Claire?” an interviewer on the left side asked me. He was older than my rescuer and had a grey beard. He was looking at me intently.“No, but I did well at college,” I replied.“I can see that,” he replied, glancing down at my resume, “But you graduated three years ago and haven’t been working since. If you didn’t get any qualifications, what did you do to impro
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