Chapter 6

Maximus POV

She looks so different. She wasn't the woman who I was married to years ago.

Selena was timid and shy. She rarely spoke out and when she did, it was always in a low tone. But the woman who was standing before me, checking up on my mother was sophisticated, confident, and had a very strong aura surrounding her.

I felt as if I was looking at a complete stranger. If I wasn't awake, I would think that I was dreaming and I was in another dimension. A world where Selena was different.

She didn't even pay any attention to me. She rarely glanced in my direction.

I saw the look of hate in her eyes when she glanced at my mother. She spoke to her so emotionlessly. She couldn't fool me. There was no way Dr. Andrea was not Selena.

I have missed her all these years. I made a terrible mistake. I was blinded by anger and jealousy. I pushed away the best thing that had ever happened to me in my life.

Every day I woke up, it was a constant reminder that Selena was no longer with me. I no longer woke up beside her.

I missed her smile, the way she would cook food for me, singing humming a tone under her breath. The way that she would do some of the house chores, despite the fact that she was married to a billionaire.

I took her for granted. I used her. I always blamed her for not giving me a child. I loved her step-sister more than her.

I should have made my marriage work with Selena but instead, I was so hung up on Jess and now, she was so near to me but still far away. She no longer had that look of love in her eyes.

Her eyes were empty, void of any emotion. I completely broke Selena Norman. I took away her happiness but I was going to make her talk to me.

I don't care if she insisted that she was not Selena. I know my wife when I see her and no one can tell me otherwise.

"We have nothing to talk about Mr. Hemsworth. I have already taken care of your mother. She will be discharged very soon and you can take her home."

"Heed my advice and never returned to my hospital. Other than that, I don't think there is anything left for us to discuss."

She yanked her hands out from my grip, turning to face me.

"Selena. I know that you are angry with me but please give me a chance to explain. I have been looking for you everywhere. You just disappeared from the surface of the earth."

"I never knew that I would see you again. I know that you are angry with me but please Selena, just..."

"How many times do I have to tell you that my name is Andrea? I don't know who your Selena is and I don't care. If she left you, then it is for the better. I don't think someone would want to stay with a guy like you."

"You are wasting my time Mr. Hemsworth. Your mother isn't the only patient I have. I don't even know why you decided to come to this hospital. With all the money that you people have, you could have flown her out of the country, that is what you all are good at, right?"

"Flashing your money as if you are the most important people on the planet. I never want to see you again. I don't want to breathe the same air that you do. I don't even want you looking in my direction."

"You don't know me and you have never met me in your life. I never want to see you again Mr. Maximus Hemsworth. Leave my hospital once your mother is discharged."

"I don't care if you are the billionaire, I don't care if you can buy half the city. As long as you are in my building, you will do as I say. And what I want is for you to be gone, far away from me."

With every word that she said, I could feel the hate dripping from it.

There was no way she wasn't Selena. I just never thought that she would hate me this way.

I was already feeling defeated. She wasn't giving me a listening ear. Now I knew exactly how she felt years ago when she kept on calling my name and I did nothing but turn my back on her, walking into the house with Jess.

"I don't want to hear you saying that you are Andrea. You know that is a lie you are Selena, the woman that I was once married to and I know that nothing I say will make you change how you feel about me. I did a very terrible thing. I divorced you on the day of our anniversary and left you with nothing but please, I have changed. That is all in the past. There is nothing more that I want than you, Selena."

I tried to hold her hand again but she shoved me back roughly, her eyes hot with anger. If looks could kill, then I would be dead on the spot.

"Don't you ever lay your filthy hands on me? I don't want you and I would never want you. Not now, not ever. You are nothing to me, Mr. Maximus Hemsworth, so don't you ever come into my life, or I would go straight to the press and tell them of how a high-profile billionaire like you is trying to cheat on your wife with me."

"How do you like that for a scandal? The media would have a field day. Never show your face to me again or I will make sure you regret it," she hissed under her breath.

Giving me a very bone-chilling glare, she left in a hurry, her fist clenched by her side.

She was trying so hard to keep her anger in.

I stared at her retreating figure before making my way back into the room where my mother was admitted.

"It's her, isn't it? That Doctor is Selena, right? Your ex-wife. She looks so different, Maximus. An apology is not going to fix everything that we have put her through," my mom said looking disturbed.

For the first time in my life, I was lost for words.

I had no idea what to do and I had no idea how to get Selena back into my life. She was so determined not to have anything to do with me but I knew that was not going to stop me.

I was Maximus Hemsworth and I never back down that easily and this time, I wanted Selena more than anything else.