006: She blocked me?

The only person that could end the marriage between Autumn Dawson and Ivan Ashton was, Maverick Ashton, Ivan's biological father. The only reason he ordained their marriage was because of a scandal years back, the media had caught the two in bed and to save face, Maverick forced the two into a marriage of convenience.

Maverick sat down in his seat as he watched his son over his desk. He had a cup of coffee in his grasps he eyes Ivan who had ignored eye contact during the entire meeting. His wife sat next to him visibly shaking. The cup parted away from his lips and in a swift motion he collided the cup against Ivan's head. Miriam, Ivan's mother sobbed as she watch her son sit in place. Blood seep slowly from Ivan's forehead but that was the least of what Maverick wanted to inflict on Ivan.

"So how the fuck are you going to fix this huh? You damn bastard." Maverick hissed raising his voice. Ivan's silence pissed him even more. The least he could do was have balls and talk back after all the scandals he's gotten himself into. Maverick paid deaf ears to every single one of them until investors started pulling out after hearing the news of his daughter in-law requesting for a divorce. For some stupid reason if Ivan could publicly cheat on his wife and get away with it, he could stab investors in back and betray them. Rumors were already going around that he was using the company's investments to spend lavishly on his mistress.

"Tell me you bastard. Are you the only one that's married? Are you the only one having an affair? Look at your brothers. They don't run D.O.N corps but you my first born child, and my heir is acting like a fucking incel." Maverick hissed. He picked up his butter knife and tries to lunge at Ivan but Miriam held him back and pleaded on her son's behalf.

"My grace, please forgive Ivan. Please he will fix his mistakes." Miriam pleaded holding back her hot tears. Ivan felt annoyed to see his mother this way but he was even more pissed this had to be the doing of Autumn.

It's been nine years and she silently endured everything he's done to her. She never once talked back to him like she did two days ago and that stuck with him. Autumn was different and he could feel it but he couldn't understand what triggered it finally.

Was it because he has hard launched Iris as his mistress openly?

"Fix this, apologize to Autumn and change her mind about the divorce, the only reason I'll let you both divorce is if I die." Maverick says as he finally leaves the restaurant with Miriam.

Ivan reaches for his forehead, feeling a sting from the cut his father had inflicted. He groaned internally until his phone rings, it was Iris.

He ignores the call, he goes through his contacts to look for Autumn's number. He finally realized he never really had it.

He scrolls to click on his secretary, he dials her number until she finally picks up.

"Mr Ivan." She greeted. "The date set up for you and Iris is almost scheduled you don't have to worry." Ivan's eyes grew tired, he didn't really remember he had scheduled that.

"Cancel it." Ivan tells her as his secretary went silent.

"S-Sir are you sure? You've been planning on it with Miss Iris for months, she's even been calling me to remind me as well..."

"Cancel it, don't make me repeat myself Sarah." Ivan warns her. Sarah immediately reassures him, cancelling the appointment and waiting for Ivan to end the call.

"Send me Autumn's number immediately." He says instantly ending the call. He receives a message indicating Autumn's number.

Ivan dials it in annoyance and waits for her to pick her calls, she's always called him in the past and he always remembers always feigning not knowing her.

"Hello." She finally answers his calls.

"You think you've won the batt..." Before he could finish his venomous threat she hangs up the call.

Ivan felt annoyed, even furious, she has never once hanged up on him. He thought she would even forgive him since he put effort into calling her even.

He calls her again.

"What?" Autumn asked in annoyance. That was odd. Her voice was mostly sheepish and shaky when ever she was on the phone. Who is this demon that has possessed his wife?

"How dare you hang up..." Again she hanged up on him the second time.

Ivan Ashton sat down in silence and once again he tried to call her but her phone kept forwarding his calls until he realized. "She blocked me?"