Chapter 2

Lucas carefully steadied Kimberly before explaining to me, "Kimmy is now my assistant, so it only makes sense for me to give her our door passcode. It's all to make her job easier and more convenient. Are you seriously getting upset over such a small thing? Selina Quinton, your jealousy is truly suffocating!"

He shot me a look filled with sheer disdain as he spoke.

I stood rooted to the spot in shock at his words, feeling like I had been struck by lightning.

He was actually saying that he felt suffocated because of me? Then, what did he call his tacit approval and indulgence over the past two years as Kimberly interfered in our married life? She had infiltrated every aspect of our life and had had no boundaries at all!

It started with her coming to our house to deliver him documents, then progressed to her brazenly having dinner with us, staying overnight, wearing my underclothes, and using my pads without my permission…

There were countless other small instances that turned our married life from a duo to a trio, and I was the third wheel.

Tilting my head up to force the tears back, I then turned to Lucas. "Since this marriage is such torture for us both, just sign the divorce agreement."

Lucas frowned and shoved the divorce agreement to the side. "That's enough. Stop throwing a tantrum and apologize to Kimmy now. Once you do, we can let this matter settle, and we'll still all be close classmates."

As he mentioned the word "classmates" again, all those horrible memories of my past swarmed me once more.

Unable to keep my emotions in check any longer, I screamed, "Even if I have to be alone for the rest of my life, I will never be friends with someone who once bullied me!"

He wanted me to apologize to Kimberly? That was never happening!

Back then, for the sake of mingling better with my peers, I purposely hid my family's true identity. Unexpectedly, this made me Kimberly's target for bullying.

On the very first day of school, my school bag and textbooks were tossed into a dirty pond at the back of the school. Besides, someone used a knife to slash a large hole in my school uniform.

Eventually, my family pressured the school into forcing Kimberly to publicly apologize to me. They also wanted to expel her, but Lucas talked me out of it by saying, "Selina, it's much easier to make enemies than friends. Since she already knows she was wrong, why don't you let her off the hook?"

At the time, due to my crush on Lucas, I swallowed my indignation and shook hands with Kimberly to make peace, even telling the school not to expel her.

Looking back on it now, I realized that his favoritism toward her had already started from then. I had simply been too blinded by my love to see it.

Kimberly's expression turned even uglier, even as she cried like there was no tomorrow.

"I was wrong and overstepped my boundaries. I shouldn't have hoped to become friends with you on account of us being classmates in the past. I forgot I'm just a lowly and insignificant employee at your company now, which is all my fault. I deserve this. I'll leave right away."

Lucas instantly became upset at her words and reached over to pull her behind him protectively. He yelled at me, "I didn't make you a wife of a CEO for you to throw your weight around and bully others!"

Then, turning to pat Kimberly's trembling shoulders, he reassured her, "Kimmy, don't put yourself down like that. I've never thought of you as just a regular employee."

His gaze was burning passionately as he looked at the frail woman before him. "You'll always be the most special person in my heart."

My legal husband was confessing his love to another woman right before my eyes, yet instead of going off the deep end like I had in the past, all I felt now was utter disgust.

Kimberly had graduated from an unknown college abroad. So, with those credentials, she was technically far from qualified to be the assistant of Gardner Corporation's CEO.

Yet, Lucas had ignored everyone's protests and stubbornly insisted on keeping her by his side. Not only was he paying her an abnormally high salary that was unparalleled in the industry, but he showed her such blatant favoritism that even I, his legal wife, could only come second.