Chapter 3: Want to Divorce

Diana's efforts to divorce Alpha Darren failed again. Alpha Darren tore the divorce documents to pieces and took Diana home by force.

Diana was locked in her room all night until she finally escaped when Alpha Darren leaves in the morning.

But Diana doesn't just stay quiet either, she escapes again and goes to the bus stop to meet her coworkers.

Someone opened the car door for Diana. “You want us to....”

Diana interrupted, *"Let's go to the office right away.”

“All right,” Fred replied. He was a prosecutor who was very kind to Diana at work. It could be said that he was Diana's closest coworker.

All the way Diana was busy fiddling with her phone. She searched for news about the chaos at the border and found it. That's when she sighed.

“What's wrong?” asked Fred, he was worried to see Diana seemed to have a lot on her mind.

*"Nothing. Thank you for giving me a ride to work. My car is being repaired,” she said.

“Whenever you need a ride, just let me know, okay?” Fred handed Diana some water.

Diana took it and smiled slightly.

Diana thought that Alpha Darren was lying about why he was late to find her when she was kidnapped, but it turned out that Alpha Darren's reason could be proven by the news she read today.

“Your husband is too busy again to drive you or are you currently running away from him?”

Fred's question made Diana gasp in surprise. But then she nodded. *"He's busy.”

All her coworkers did know that she was married because she was wearing the wedding ring that Alpha Darren was not allowed to remove.

Suddenly Diana's phone vibrated, a call from Alpha Darren. He must have gotten the news that Diana ran away.

Diana decided to ignore the call for a few tries.

“It's from your husband, don't you want to pick up? Maybe he has something important to say,” Fred suggested.

Diana sighed and finally picked up the call from Alpha Darren because she didn't want to annoy Fred.

[Why did you run away again? Where are you now? Who's the man with you? Send me a message right now.”]

Diana immediately hung up the call and closed her phone. She didn't care if Alpha Darren was mad because she was also furious right now. Alpha Darren now even sent spies to monitor Diana's movements, which made Diana no longer free, as if she was locked up.

Diana rushed into the office as soon as she arrived and even forgot to thank Fred.

She went straight to the mediation room. The head of the department said that today's consultation is done online and Diana only needs to note down the client's concerns, without being accompanied by a lawyer.

Diana took a deep breath to calm her mind and prepared to greet her first client. But when the video call was connected, Diana froze in an instant.

Diana's body stiffened as she saw that the client she was dealing with now looked similar to the man who put a knife to her neck when she was kidnapped. Diana even broke out in a cold sweat as she held back her fear.

Her current client was also wearing a mask, making him look even more similar to the kidnapper. The client was also seen smiling with one eye squinted, as if to show Diana that he was the kidnapper from yesterday.

The fear on Diana's face made her pale for sure. Diana could only stare at the screen without being able to move her hands to initiate communication.

Diana was very traumatized by the kidnapping incident yesterday because she almost lost her life. That's what froze her in place.

The door opened, and the head of department saw Diana. “Oh my, Diana, what's wrong with you?” The head of department rushed over to Diana. She realized Diana wasn't okay. “Are you sick? Let me take you to the medical room.”

At the same time, her first client's call was cut off before they could communicate.

Diana's eyes were blank. She wondered what exactly the kidnapper wanted that he was trying to appear in front of Diana again. He even contacted Diana's office. That's so crazy!

After being left alone in the medical room, Diana held her head, trying to shake off the voices of the kidnappers who had threatened her that night. She also remembered how she was so meaningless to Alpha Darren that he wouldn't trade the worthless 10 million for Diana's life.

Diana wiped away her tears. With trembling hands she turned on her phone again to send a message to Fred to thank him.

But just as she turned on her phone, she received a notification from the online newspaper she subscribed to. It was news that Alpha Darren would be taking to the field to deal with the riots another Pack had caused at the border.

Diana sighed, decided not to send the message, and put her phone down and went to sleep.

But just as she closed her eyes, Diana's phone vibrated again. Another call from Alpha Darren. And this time Diana immediately picked up the call because she didn't want Alpha Darren to contact her mother, or else her mother would scold Diana badly.

The sound of Alpha Darren's breathing could be heard. [There is no need to send any message. I just wanted to let you know that there will be some female bodyguards who will be guarding you from now on. Don't resist or run away anymore, they will start working to get you home today.]

Diana rubbed her nose but it was heard by Alpha Darren. [Are you crying?] Then Alpha Darren sighed again. [If you obey, then we don't have to fight every day. I'm also tired of you always being like this. Even though you're not my real bride, you've been living with me for a year now. Living with someone who keeps getting mad at me is so frustrating.]

Diana squeezed her shirt. Alpha Darren always succeeded in shrinking Diana because of his harsh words.

[Rest if you're tired, maybe that's why you're so grumpy.]

Then the phone was disconnected.

Diana left the medical room in a hurry to head to the rooftop. She even ran up the stairs because she couldn't bear to scream.

So as soon as the rooftop door was open, Diana started screaming at the top of her lungs. She poured out all her heart, the frustration and anger she held towards Alpha Darren. She could only scream here because she couldn't do it in front of Alpha Darren.

“You bastard Darren! You're driving me crazy! Why won't you divorce me if you don't care about me and want me dead!” Diana's breathing went up and down after letting her heart out.

She walked towards the guardrail, looking down where there was only an office yard with hard asphalt. Diana took a deep breath and exhaled harshly. “I want to divorce! I don't love you, please don't lock me into your world.”

Finally Diana burst into tears as her chest felt tight. She beat her chest to get rid of the suffocation. “Why don't you just let me go? I'm not the bride you want and you're not the man I want either. Why stay if we hurt each other every day?” Diana's body finally slumped to the floor. She looked down at the floor soaked with her tears while clutching her phone tightly.

A call came in, this time from an unknown number. So Diana didn't pick it up but then a message came in that made Diana hurriedly pick up the call.

[It turns out that you are afraid too if I bring your brother's name. From now on if I call you, you have to pick up immediately because I'm always watching you. Do you understand?]

Diana looked around her with fear. The kidnapper even knew her brother, he must also know everything about Diana and that was very scary.

[I can see you but you can't see me. But that's not the problem. Your husband doesn't know that you can talk, right? How would he react if he knew that you were lying and he could hear your voice?]

Diana tried not to respond to the kidnapper's words because it could have been a threat to make her talk. She squeezed her phone to vent her fears.

[It wasn't just a threat. I've recorded you cursing at your husband and wanting a divorce].

A new message came in containing the video where Diana was screaming earlier.

“Who are you asshole! What do you want from me!” Finally, Diana couldn't take it anymore, and she was pressured to talk to the kidnapper.

The kidnapper laughed from the other side. [What do I want? I want 10 million dollars. Oh yeah, I also don't want you to divorce your husband or I'll send the video to him. Doesn't that mean you and your mother will be punished if you are caught lying to Alpha Darren?]

Diana bit her inner lip to keep her crying voice from being heard by the kidnapper. She wrinkled her nose to speak clearly. “Why don't you want me to divorce him? Who are you really?”

[It doesn't matter who I am. Just prepare the money in cash. I'll send the place and time you need to send it."]

After the call was disconnected, Diana immediately threw her phone. “No one wants me to be happy, they're all just enjoying seeing me suffer.”

Diana wouldn't have survived this far if it wasn't for her brother. She stayed with Alpha Darren because her mother asked her to. Diana couldn't argue because her mother was paying for her brother's medical bills. If Diana divorced, the medical bills would be cut off. That's why Diana is working, collecting money so that she can pay for her brother's treatment independently so that she can be free from both her mother and Alpha Darren.

Hence Diana was very frustrated at this time, how could she collect 10 million dollars in such a short period of time? Even the money she had collected for her brother didn't reach that amount.

“You should just kill me instead of torturing me like this.” Diana beat her chest, which felt tight again.

Her phone which had cracked its screen vibrated again, Alpha Darren was calling her again.

[Are you okay?] Alpha Darren asked as soon as Diana picked up the call, as if he knew that the kidnapper had just threatened Diana.

Diana chuckled sadly. She felt that the question was useless because since being married to Alpha Darren, Diana had never been okay.

She quickly sent a message to answer the question. That was how she communicated if she was called by Alpha Darren.

*"Why ask me how I was? I'm okay or not, you don't care anyway. You only care about your business, you're asking about my condition because you were asked by my mother since I didn't answer her call, right?]

Alpha Darren sighed. [So glad you're okay. Stay in your office, don't come out for now.]

Diana sighed in disgust. She was still typing a reply when suddenly there was a loud bang from the phone, making Diana's ears buzz painfully.

Diana was still digesting what happened when the large billboard facing her office broadcasted the hot news about the explosion at Alpha Darren's office.

Diana immediately tried to contact Alpha Darren again, but the call was not connected. “Come on, pick up my call!” Diana shouted in frustration, her tears falling again. “Tell me you're at the border, not the office.”