Break before you

Junia’s P.O.V

Tears pressed at the back of my eyelids as my bottom lips wobbled. Every part of me wanted to crumble on my knees and burst out into tears but the last thing that would ever happen was me crying before the multitude of people who were waiting for every little thing to turn against me and spread rumor around.

Plus I would never break down before Maddie.

I sniffled in my tears, turning to look at the guests and my friends with a bright smile on my face. "Don't worry about anything please and go on with your party, he is just a little drunk" I demonstrated with my hands while they stared intently at me as if they had difficulty believing my words.

One thing I knew was that they wanted something to talk about and I wasn't going to give it to them, they have always held me in high self-esteem and the last thing that would ever happen was me falling from that high place that they have placed me in.

With a bright smile spread across my face, I turned to look at the musicians who were keen on catching whatever was going to happen.

"Music please" I gestured and as soon as I said those words, a mellifluous tune filled the air.

As I turned towards Ethan's direction, the only thing I wanted was to strangle that bitch of a woman called Maddie. The fact that she had the audacity to show her face here shows that she was shameless and had no single ounce of self-worth.

But, maybe I shouldn't blame her, maybe I should blame Ethan who was bold enough to bring her home to me on my wedding anniversary.

As my gaze met hers, a lopsided smile crept through her face. It was more like a smile that depicted that she had won in the end.

Just the mere sight of her made my skin crawl, causing a deep pit of fire to surge in my stomach as anger clogged my throat. I squeezed the divorce paper in my hands because there was no way Ethan would do something like that.

He had always threatened to divorce me, yes! But with Maddie in the picture, the realization hit me that Maddie could have manipulated Ethan in his lowest moments.

Thankfully, his assistant, Aaron walked through the door and he was equally astonished to see Maddie and most especially Ethan as he rushed toward him.

"Ma'am" He lowered his head before me while I quickly mouthed. "Take him away from here, now!"

He nodded subtly in affirmation to my request and he was about to take Ethan inside when Ethan pushed him off him.

His hazel eyes blazing with a different kind of rage that I had never seen before. Ethan ran his hands through his hair frustratedly as his chest rose and fell steadily while heaving deep sighs in between.

He walked past me in anger and when I attempted to stop him, he shot me a glare that made me pause on my track. Ethan went towards the center of the hall, before I knew what was happening, Ethan did the unexpected. Something that I would never in my wildest imagination have ever imagined.

He carried the cake and hurled it to the ground. The cake that I had specifically baked for him.

Gasps erupted in the air while my palm clenched my heart.

He staggered towards the bands that were still playing and grabbed the microphone and screamed into it. "The party is over, let the whole world know that Junia and I are done with this pathetic marriage. So leave!" He snarled, almost losing balance and that was when Aaron forcefully took him to his room.

"Pathetic marriage" His heart-wrenching words resounded in my ear and at that moment, I didn't care about what the others thought because I was too carried away by why he addressed what we had shared between us as pathetic.

The marriage between me and Ethan was an arranged one that was brought up by my father and his grandfather. Before all of that, Ethan and I attended the same college and although he had always doted on Maddie from the very beginning, I couldn't deny the fact that I had a crush on him.

I envied his relationship with Maddie but one thing I never did was to cross boundaries. After college, Maddie left Ethan, and that in turn shattered him into pieces.

Because of how unstable he was, a marriage was proposed between the two families and I agreed because it was a dream come true for me. But for Ethan, that wasn't the case.

He couldn't seem to forget her neither could he get her out of his mind. He was so broken by Maddie that on our wedding day, he wandered off before he was found.

Now, seeing Maddie appear here shamelessly and Ethan still keeping in touch with her made me want to lose my mind.

Not only that, he had the temerity to treat me like trash and like I meant nothing to him before the whole world. He had never accorded me with my deserved respect but everything that he did today was something that I would never be able to erase from my mind.

"How could he?" My fist clenched as tears began welling up in my eyes again.

How could he repay me in that manner? I was the one who made him what he was! When his half-brothers wanted to deprive him of the right to his father's inheritance, I was the one who stood my ground and made sure his being stigmatized as the son of a mistress wouldn't deprive him of his rights.

When his brothers tried to ruin him by creating different kinds of scandals for him, I knew the length that I went through to make sure that the truth was out in the open.

I knew how I had to get my hands dirty just because I wanted to place him above his brothers and after everything that I did for him, this was how he paid me back.

I neglected my dream of becoming a well-renowned actress just because I wanted to build him and he dared to offer me divorce papers for all of my sacrifices.

No way would happen! Because I wouldn't allow myself to be tossed aside like a piece of trash!

I was jolted out of my thoughts when I felt a soft tapping on my shoulder and when I turned to look at who it was, it turned out to be Maddie and the annoying thing was that she beamed with a smile.

She was smiling like she didn't have something up to her sleeves.

I shot her a glare. "Remove your hands off my shoulders" My voice was cold and the fact that she chuckled at my words intensified my anger.

Maddie swiveled her gaze around the whole hall, her hands squeezed behind her back. "You have been living a luxurious life. The life that I was supposed to live.....how does it feel like to be Ethan's wife? How does it sound to you that I would be taking your place soon"

She paused, chuckling. "I mean my place, that was taken by you" The smile on her face disappeared and a frown spread across her face.

My eyes twitched, trying to wrap my head around what she had just uttered. I swear that it took a whole lot of restraint for me not to smack her face against the wall.

"Get out of here and stop being delusional!" I yelled, attempting to walk past her when I heard something that made me pause on my track.

She stepped forward with a smile creeping at the corner of her lips.

"You are the one that would get out of here because, for your information, I am carrying Ethan's child."