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The Ultimatum Delivered

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Adrian

I sat in the study long after Margaret left, turning her unexpected warning over in my mind. She had spent months undermining Evelyn, questioning her worth, and quietly encouraging me to move on.

Now, without explanation, she had looked me in the eye and told me not to divorce her under any circumstances. The sudden shift left a restlessness I could not settle. I needed the marriage ended. I needed the constant presence of Damien Cross removed from every corner of my life.

Yet my own m
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  • Rejected By My Husband, Desired By My Doctor    Original Terms

    EvelynTheo did not step inside until Damien moved aside, and gave him permission to do so, after of course, noticing the familiarity and even then he hesitated at the threshold as though he was not entirely sure whether he had the right to cross it.He looked older than the last time I had seen him, though the last time had been so many years ago that I wasn't sure I could trust my memory of him, and there was something unsettling about seeing those dark Marcello eyes in a face I had spent so long refusing to think about.Damien remained near the door, watching both of us, and I could feel the question sitting between us without either of us asking it: who exactly was this man, and why had he decided to appear now?"Theo," I said quietly.He nodded."You remember me.""Of course I remember you."I looked away, suddenly angry that my voice had betrayed even the smallest trace of emotion. I had spent years telling myself that whatever happened to my family belonged to another part of m

  • Rejected By My Husband, Desired By My Doctor    Set Up

    EvelynDamien pushed through the crowd, grabbed my arm and pulled me behind him, turning his body so that he became the barrier between me and the people reaching toward us."Back up," he snapped. "Give her room."Someone shouted that he was threatening them. Another person yelled that we had staged the entire thing.Damien swore under his breath, and when one of the men stepped forward again, he put a hand against the man's chest and pushed him back just far enough to create space."Do not touch her."That should have been the moment I felt safe.Instead, the first phone was already displaying a recording of me shouting.By the time Damien got me into the building, someone had already posted a clip online.The footage showed almost none of what had happened before I reacted. It showed me turning, shouting, pushing someone back and then Damien forcing his way into the crowd. It did not show the hand around my arm or the person who had blocked my path, and by the time we reached the el

  • Rejected By My Husband, Desired By My Doctor    Pure Madness

    EvelynIf I had a bad feeling about something, I always tried to stop it to avoid more calamities. I had learnt that the hard way, having lost six of my children even after my instincts had to me I just had to quit the treatment. Now, my guts were up again, warning me against the idea of Damien going after Margaret. For some reason again, just like with Adrian, I knew we were only making matters worse.Maybe I just needed to focus on getting the divorce done and then moving out of the house and never looking back. Maybe that was the best way – only way – out.Damien proceeded anyway and in no time, it was out in the headlines again.DAMIEN CROSS GOES AFTER THE MASTERMIND – MARGARET PARKER, IN A BID TO GRASP AT STRAWSWhat more had been expected? The media was already turning against him, and Damien was acting blindly.Soon, the day did come. I sat beside Damien in the back of the courtroom, watching Raymond speak quietly with our lawyer while papers were arranged and rearranged on the

  • Rejected By My Husband, Desired By My Doctor    The Verdict

    Evelyn“Evelyn…”Damien whispered at me.“You all are obviously overlooking every relevant point!” I continued.“Order!”Beside me, Damien went completely still. I realized it just then. I tried not to look towards Adrian, nor Doris. I simply sat back, trying to still my breathing.The judge continued speaking, but I had stopped listening to the details. I could hear only fragments: the claim was not established, the relief sought would not be granted, costs would be determined, the matter was concluded.Then the sentence came that I would remember long after I forgot everything else."The judgment of the court is therefore entered in favour of the respondent on the principal claims before it."The room seemed to go very quiet, even though I knew people were moving around us.I looked across the aisle.Adrian had lowered his gaze for a moment, and when he looked up again, I saw something change in his face. It was not the smug satisfaction I had expected. It was relief, certainly, but

  • Rejected By My Husband, Desired By My Doctor    The Final Day

    EvelynBy the time the judge entered the courtroom, I had already forgotten how many times I had checked the clock.The final hearing had taken weeks to reach, yet now that I was sitting inside that room with Damien beside me and our lawyer arranging the last of his papers, everything seemed to be moving too quickly. The courtroom was fuller than it had been during some of the earlier hearings, although no one spoke above a murmur, and the low conversations that did pass between lawyers stopped almost completely the moment the judge took his seat.I looked across the aisle and found Adrian already watching the front of the room, his expression composed, his suit perfectly arranged, one hand resting beside the stack of documents his lawyers had prepared, and for a second I wondered how a man could look so untouched by the chaos he had helped create. Then I saw the faint purple still lingering along his knuckles from the fight with Damien, and I remembered that appearances were all any

  • Rejected By My Husband, Desired By My Doctor    Losing Ground

    EvelynAs the weeks rolled by through the period of the case between Parker and Cross, we were naturally beginning to regret starting the battle in the first place.The hearings had taken on a quality that made the outcome feel predetermined before any final judgment was spoken. And though we could feel something was wrong, we could hardly do anything about it.Each session followed a similar pattern. Damien’s counsel would present material with care, all the substantial evidence they had to prove Adrian had a hand in the entire mess and all the materials to disprove things like the fake chats... Across the aisle, Adrian’s team would answer with a density of filings and a readiness that never seemed to falter. Objections landed in their favour more often than normal. Scheduling decisions that could have gone either way consistently tilted toward them. Even the smaller procedural matters carried the same imbalance.I sat through the sessions with my hands locked together in my lap and

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