Chapter 48: Divorce HimSofia's POVI can't bear his treatment of me. We never talked, and I was like a dog who kept on following him to the office, and sometimes he did not give me work to do. I am being pathetic in front of him. If he's going home, I need to take a taxi since I don't want to ask him to bring me with him.I want to stop this nonsense. No one knows how much I wanted to talk to him just to make me free. I am useless to him; he can act like I am not here or anywhere. Why doesn't he just kick me out of this house? Why doesn't he just kick me out of his life so we're done, and I will be done with being stupid? I hate this life! I kicked that trash bin on the other side when my phone rang—Maria’s calling. I quickly answered it.“Hi, it's been a week. How have you been?” At this moment, hearing her voice made me feel a little bit okay. “I'm great, how about you? I never heard the news about you since the day we both separated at the bar,” I asked her. But I know she got
Chapter 49: I Love Him Sofia’s POVAfter what happened earlier, I went to Maria’s house.“What happened?” That’s the first question she asked me when I arrived at her house. She’s not expecting me to be here at this moment.“I lied,” I tried to hold back my tears, but when she hugged me, I couldn’t stop but to cry on her shoulder.“Sofia, just cry everything out.” We both sat on her couch while she hugged me and fixed my hair.After many minutes of crying, I gathered my strength to tell her the truth.“Maria,” I held her hand while she waited for my words.“What is it? Is there something wrong?” She asked me, and I slowly nodded.“I can’t help it anymore. I think I love Marcus now,” I said. She looked at me intently.“I thought you were just lying before about your fake marriage. From the first time you told me he’s your husband, I know you love him,” she told me. I love him. I was silent at what she said. “What do you mean?” She took a deep breath and approached me. She pulled me c
Chapter 50: Free MeSofia’s POVI was speechless because of what he said.I looked into his eyes. I hate seeing him like this, but I can’t believe him.If he doesn’t want to let me go, then why does he still hurt me?What’s with his actions? What’s the meaning of his actions when he acts like I never existed?“You loved me?! Tell me! Why do you still have to show me that I’m worthless? I’m useless!” I questioned him. I feel like he’s just using the word love to make me stay. Maybe I loved playing with my feelings!Her mom was right! Someone like him would never be serious about me.“I loved you! Believe me! Please, I never meant to make you feel worthless or useless, Sofia. Trust me! I’m just… I’m just afraid that I might lose you!” He tried to touch me, but I stepped back.“I don’t believe you, Marcus. When I told you that I loved you, that I already fell for you, you just stared at me, not caring about what I said, about my feelings!” I shouted at him.“Sofia, please believe me. I b
Chapter 51: Divorce AgreementSofia's POVIt's been one year since the day I left Marcus. Since the day I left that life of mine. Everything went well; I now have a small flower shop business. And I'm happy that in one year, I healed myself, fixed my life.It took me time to heal, but then I did. I'm happy that I can see myself okay. I see my worth again; I see what I mean to this world.That one year, I didn't waste time and worked to make a small business. I worked my butt off. I never missed a chance and did everything to change my life.This flower shop business of mine symbolizes how happy I am that I can cope with all those struggles that came into my life. Every time someone is buying flowers at my shop, it makes me happy. What made me even happier was that when I saw those people who received flowers were smiling.But even though I'm content with my life now, I still have to do something important. I should have done this before, but I was too busy to do it. But now I have tim
Chapter 52: Sign ItSofia's POVThe place was still the same as before, but my table remained, along with my name.I stopped minding it and walked straight to Marcus' table.I could read his expression; he was shocked to see me here.I didn't wait for him to talk or approach me. I gave him my blank expression.I placed the divorce agreement on his table, which made him stare at me.I know he understands what that document means.“What is that?” He rested his back on his chair and crossed his arms. It irritated me because of his demeanor.“That is obviously a divorce agreement. I want you to sign it now,” he just looked at me and didn't seem to care about what I was saying.Damn it!“And why do I need to get involved with that?” His response angered me. He enjoys playing with me.“Just sign it, Marcus, so I don't have to come here to your office. Only your signature is needed for this paper, so just do it,” my voice sounded mad, but I didn't care.“I won't sign it,” he said and pushed
Chapter 53: Conditions Sofia's POV “Just sign the divorce agreement, Marcus, so I could go home.” I don't care if I sound desperate; I needed him to sign the papers. “I told you, Sofia, you're just wasting your time. I won't be signing any of those papers,” he said and sat on his chair, thinking about something. “Why?! I've made an effort to come all the way here just to get your stupid signature, and you will make things harder?!” I couldn't help but get mad. His expression suddenly changed. “Fine, I will sign those papers on one condition,” he paused for a moment. I didn't have any idea what he was thinking, but hearing him would sign those papers made me calm. “What condition?” I asked him, and he smirked and looked at me. “I want you to be my personal secretary for two weeks. Since Ryan left for his vacation, I'll
Chapter 54: Ignoring HimSofia's POVI woke up to knocking on my door. Slowly opening my eyes, I realised it was already late at night.Opening the door while still half-asleep, I was greeted by Marcus.“Sorry to disturb you from sleeping. I made dinner. Let's eat; I know you haven't eaten,” he said. I didn't answer him; instead, I was about to close the door when he stopped me.“Come on, Sofia, you have to eat. I saw you just ate noodles; that's why I cooked your favourite food,” he said, but I just rolled my eyes. However, when I smelled the fried chicken, my tummy started to rumble.Ignoring him, I walked past him. He followed me quietly. When I saw the food on the table, I suddenly felt hungry.I rushed to get a plate and put food on it, not waiting for him and just started to eat.“Careful, everything on the table is for you,” he said, but as always, I didn't answer him.Still mad at him for putting me in this situation again, instead of signing the divorce paper, I began to chok
Chapter 55: Happy Birthday Sofia's POVIt's been a week, and still, my treatment of him hasn't changed, but he didn't want to give up. I don't care; my only purpose in accepting his deal was to make him sign the divorce papers. I didn't plan to fix us or to have a good relationship with him.I'm happy that I only have to wait for another week to finish our deal so I can return to our city. Jessica kept asking me to go back because there are a lot of customers these last few days, but I told her that I can't because I'm doing something important here.I sigh. We are too busy right now because we have to finish the design for our proposal. This is very important to us, especially to Marcus.“Here, don't stress yourself,” he placed pizza on my table and drank.I looked at him, and he smiled at me.“Thank you, sir,” I uttered, which made him return to his seat while looking at me. Seeing the food tempted me to taste it.That's why I have no choice but to eat it. I saw him smile while pla