All Chapters of The Toxic Marriage : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Things weren’t the same after that day.  Ryker who had been super nice to her after the birth of their son had changed completely. He wouldn’t speak to her or care for her, his focus was back on the brand and shows.“Can we talk?” Kathleen had gathered enough strength to speak to him after three days of ignoring the subject. She stood in the doorway of his room, her dull eyes watching him work on the laptop.“I don’t have a free time to waste on a useless conversation with you. I’ve some important things to deal with.” Ryker didn’t even raise his face to look at her. His ignorance after raising her hopes so high was something too painful to deal with."Ryker, I just want a few minutes of your life." Kathleen felt humiliated to be begging for a few minutes of someone's life with who she had a baby."So that you can ruin the entirety of my life?" He slammed the laptop's head shut and glared at her w

Ryker had left the apartment after he had poured his heart out to her.Kathleen had been crying ever since that happened. She felt responsible for all that had happened to their relationship. She blamed their inability to communicate and thought that them always keeping secrets from each other was the major cause of their relationship’s failure."I was the reason behind the destruction of our relationship," She cried, sitting on the floor with Juan's crib.

After a few hours of lying down in the bed after being rejected by Ryker, Kathleen couldn’t fall asleep. She gave up on the idea of trying of going to bed when Juan woke up and started crying. At least she had someone with her, someone who she could call hers. “Oh, hey!” she reached him and picked him up in her arms very gently, “Are you deciding to pull an all-nighter?” Kathleen smiled very weakly at her baby while rocking him up. The baby was probably bored in the room, Kathleen took Juan and his teddy to the living room and settled on the couch. She had been busy watching Juan play when Ryker came out of his room, wearing a tux and looking all fresh. She quickly understood he was headed out to celebrate his birthday but didn’t know where he was going. Kathleen saw Ryker getting ready for his birthday, wearing his best suit and doing his perfect hair. He looked charming like always, she watched him perfecting his looks before he stepped closer to the couch

She fell asleep eventually after two days of restlessness. When she woke up, she realized something was different.“Umm?” she itched her scalp, that’s when she noticed that the noise that woke her up was her son.“Juan!” she forced her eyes wide open and rushed towards the crib, “Oh my son!” she hugged him but instantly put him down, “I don’t want to scare you, so I won’t hug you until you are comfortable.” She had tears streaming down her eyes while she watched her son with nothing but love in her eyes. One could see the fear she was dealing with, the fear of her son being taken away from her.She was surprised that Ryker had left him in her room because the last time when he spoke to her, he didn’t feel her pain. She spent the next few hours with Juan, focusing on her son and waiting for Ryker’s arrival back home so that she could tell him about taking care of Juan so that she could

Kathleen had been focusing on her phone when a car came speeding from behind and stopped right in front of her. She panicked and took a few steps back.The guy driving the Bugatti Divo was none other than Alec Hyes. Kathleen was not only surprised with how rich he was but the fact that he so aggressively pulled up to her."What is this nonsense?" Kathleen didn't hold back asking him very angrily. She had enough of these hot men doing whatever they wanted to do in her life.