At exactly 9am the next day, Tobias was standing in front of the civil court, ready and willing to sign those divorce papers.The divorce was set to take place at the same courtroom he and Amara had their wedding in. It was ironic how things ended up this way.As he stood in front of the large doors that led into the courtroom, Tobias had no expression on his face. He had made sure to put on his cold and emotionless mask before heading out and now, he wasn't going to remove it unless he was absolutely alone.Without hesitating, he opened the door and walked in, not surprised at the sight that greeted him.Sitting at the center of the court room, looking prim and proper, was his wife, or rather soon to be ex-wife, Amara. And beside her was the one person he had developed a hatred for overnight. Lorenzo.Lorenzo was dressed in a suit and looked every bit a gentleman that he claimed to be, with a charming smile and a hand on top of Amara's as if he was trying to comfort her.The sight alo
Life without Tobias was almost unimaginable to Amara. In the past, when Giselle threatened to make Tobias divorce her, she would always cower because of the threat, one time even going as far as wiping Giselle’s foot and begging her, all because she fear a life without Tobias. But now that she and Tobias were no longer husband and wife, now that their marriage was truly and legally terminated, she realized that life without Tobias was in fact not that bad.Instead, it was great, better than she had expected. There was no one to degrade or disgrace her and she didn’t need to work all day, dolling herself up to look pretty in hopes of grabbing the attention of a husband who would barely even look her way when he returned home.Although, Life without Tobias was strange at first, but a month into said life, she got used to it. She became accustomed to living without him, without anyone there to bother her or criticize her or control her. She had her own free will and could finally take the
Tobias had just concluded greeting a client of his when the sound of commotion coming from somewhere caught his attention.The first thing he did was trying and find Celestine who was no longer by his side. For a few seconds, his eyes swept through the crowd, trying to locate her, but only seconds later, his eyes stopped their search, not because they had found who he was looking for, but because his brain had registered the sight of his ex wife, Amara.And she looked unbelievable in the dress she had adorned.“Amara…” The name left his lips in a whisper and before he could stop himself, he had started to move towards her, but his movements were abruptly stopped when the figure of a tall man came into view and effortlessly wrapped his hand around Amara’s waist.“Is there an issue here?” Lorenzo asked, glancing between Celestine and Fiona with a menacing glare that made the latter shiver.“Not at all.” Amara beat them both to the punch before they could speak. “I was simply educating th
After what Amara dimmed as her grand show, she turned on her heels, gave Tobias one last nasty look and walked away, feeling more satisfied than ever.As she left, Fiona managed to pull herself out of the pool. Then she leant a helping hand to Celestine who was not pleased by the way the entire situation had turned out.When she fell into the pool, what she had in mind was for Tobias to scold Amara, detest her even more. At first, it seemed like that was working, but then Amara being, well Amara, went ahead and busted her bubble.Celestine couldn’t have felt more angry when she saw the smile on Amara’s face as she tossed the money at them.Who the hell did she seriously think she was? The daughter of a billionaire?!How dare she throw money earned from selling her filthy body at them and call the dresses they had customized to perfect, trash bag?!The more Celestine thought about it, the more angry she got. She wouldn’t have noticed how her finger nails were drawing blood from the skin
While Amara peaceful snoozed in the comfort of her mattress, Tobias sat in the dim atmosphere of his office, reading through the same article she had read and re-watching the video attached.The first two times he watched the video, he had refused to believe that it was just as the article had said, that Celestine purposefully pushed herself into the pool to gain sympathy and attention. But the more he watched the video, the more he saw that Celestine had indeed fallen into the pool herself.She hadn’t been pushed.‘But if that’s true,’ He thought. ‘Then, why would she go out of her way to make it seem as if Amara pushed her?’He knew Celestine wasn’t the type of person who would do such a thing. At least, he thought she wasn’t. But now, after seeing those pictures and this video, he was left with an uncertain feeling that wasn’t settling all too well with him.What feeling this was, Tobias wasn’t given enough time to figure it out as the sound of someone knocking on his office door sn
Although Amara hadn’t given them the grace nor opportunity to say another word after she declared the meeting dismissed, she could see from the looks on their faces that some of the executives despised what she had just said and potentially, their hatred for her just might have grown.Other, very few of them, looked impressed by her bold approach. They either made this known by the curt nod passed her way as she exited the office, looks of admiration on their faces or the handshakes some of them extended to her.But as much as it seemed like all of that matter to Amara, it actually didn’t, for what mattered to her was finding a way to back her big tall back in the meeting, after all, big talk without results would only solidify those hating executives assumptions.Arriving at her new and rather fancy looking office, Amara took less than a minute to admire the interior, brown office table, a glass cabinet filled with books, a huge flat screen tv mounted to the wall and a brown leather c
For the first few seconds, the air around that area of the club seemed to freeze.Amara couldn’t move nor say a word, all she could do was stare at the group before her, more specifically, the man who had once held her heart and soul in his hand.But as frozen as the atmosphere was, it quickly thawed and was replaced with something cold, bitter and hateful.The very same hatred that had grown between the two, Amara’s own being newer and hotter.For a second, the tension nearly became unbearable as neither of them wanted to look away, refusing to end the silent war of glares going on.“I think it’s best if we just find another spot.” Melanie said at last, trying her best to defuse the tension that had settled around them.Her words were what snapped Amara out of her trance. She looked away from Tobias, a deep frown on her face, and followed after her best friend when Melanie tugged her in the direction of a new table.As she moved, she could feel Tobias’s eyes following her, staring at
"That was amazing!" Melanie praised as soon as Amara began making her way off the stage, doing everything in her power to ignore the way Tobias's eyes followed her every movement."It was nice," Amara said and released a strained chuckle, thought it came out sounding more relaxed than she could expected. "I should do this more often.""Damn right you should." Melanie agreed as they walked up to the bar, ready to place new drink orders.As they waited for the bartender to arrive, someone once again took the seat beside Amara.She rolled her eyes, just about done with men for the night. But before she could part her lips to speak, the stranger had beat her to it."I'll pay for your drinks." She turned to him and arched a brow. "It's the least I can do after you entertained us all."And true to his words, the stranger paid for their drinks and left instantly, leaving Melanie and Amara to share a look of amusement."I see you have some admirers." Melanie chuckled as she watched the strang