Chapter 13

Chapter 13

Three weeks later

Ian and Ashley had settled into a very easy routine. It consisted of not seeing or speaking to each other in any capacity. Ashley didn’t know what she was hoping for when she was younger but she was sure this was not the kind of marriage. In her imaginations, the first three weeks of her marriage were not spent wondering if she could break free from the shackles. Even work had lost its flair.

Even though he was a scoundrel that cheated without giving her any form of closure, Richard still had his positives. Generally at this time she would have received a nice check up text. It was already 12pm and it was so jarring for the first few days. If he wanted to hurt her, he was doing a damn good job with it. She received a call from Amelia about three days after the whole cheating debacle. The entire call was just Amelia using roundabout ways to say she had stolen yet another man from under her. Ashley nearsmashed her phone in.

Rita had been hired for a Vegas j