_______________________...I opened the front door as slowly as I could. The apartment was in complete darkness.Well, it was past nine and Rory liked to hole up in the bedroom with her Chinese or Korean drama by this time.I sighed. It had come to look like I had snatched the master bedroom from her and left her at the guest bedroom.Things were almost perfect this morning. It had looked like it would end up good too. That I would be able to salvage something of the fucked up situation that I had put us four in.Four. We were going from two to four in a couple of months. We already had.But Ophelia had to come in at the end moment and ruin everything.She was blackmailing. Blackmailing with every affair I had since my marriage. At this point, it shouldn't matter to me. It was not like Rory did not know what I had done. And I did not give two shits about what anyone else thought of me. So I shouldn't be playing into her games.But I was scared. If everything went public, it could m
____________________...I kept jabbing on the doorbell of the Lewis Mansion. "Rowan, what are you doing here?" Came my mother-in-law, Katherine Lewis' voice from the security system before a buzz was heard and the front door flung open. The Lewis' butler, George, stood there with his scrutinizing gaze. He did not seem happy to see me.But the person who seemed to be in a much worse mood was my mother-in-law. And that surprised me because Katherine was always happy to see me. "Eric told me Pump- Rory must be here." I rushed out. "She left home without telling me." "You mean to say, she left you." Katherne corrected and it was a jab right to my heart. "Kathy, I-" She held up a hand, signaling me to shut the fuck up. "My daughter wants nothing to do with you, Rowan. And in that case, I don't want anything to do with you too." I was shocked by her change in behavior. I remembered that just yesterday, she was mad at Rory for talking about divorce when our babies were on their way
___________________..."You did this?" Gabriella stood there with her phone facing towards me, her expression that of utter disbelief. "Is it that hard to believe?" I let out a small humorless laugh. I had aways been such an idiot when it came to Rowan that people were treating me like a clown. People say there are a lot of side effects to being pregnant. I think one of mine is that I have grown a spine. "You outed every single affair Rowan had throughout this marriage to the fucking media?" She was still in shock. "It was the only way I could think of that would have the contract out of my skin." I shrugged nonchalantly as I continued to feast on the cookies and cream ice cream. My pregnancy cravings were mostly sweets and most ice cream among that. "Who are you and what have you done to my sister?" She let out a laugh of exhilaration as she dropped her phone on the bed and walked over to give me a hug. "You know, I should be offended that you are so surprised by me doing s
_______________________..."Come on baby, don't play oblivious now. You and I both know you set me up two years ago."The biggest truth of my life is that I have never loved and hated someone with the same intensity as I have done with Rowan. What bullshit was he coming up with now and everything else was closing up on him? "I set you up?" I asked him, feeling lightheaded from all the blood rushing to my head. The vase sitting to my right seemed really expensive to be broken over someone's head, so I refrained myself from doing just that. "I am sorry I am bringing it up now but I am tired of being the bad guy here. I love you, honey, but you need to come clean too." He grabbed me by my shoulders. I looked up at him, not blinking. I did not hear anything after he said those words. He threw it out so casually. The three words that had dictated my life and my feelings towards Rowan so powerfully in the last decade were nothing but that, just three words to him. "Say something."
_________________..."I didn't do it!" Ophelia yelled. "For the umpteenth time, I am telling you, Rowan, that I didn't do it!" Ophelia was repeating the same words like a parrot. Any more, and I would actually believe her. But I knew better than that. "You tell me I was getting everything I wanted while blackmailing you. Why would I throw my trump card away?" "Because what you actually wanted was me. And for that, Rory and I needed to get divorced." I told her, and she was silent. She knew it was true. "Now you have gained that. Rory gave me a divorce, so don't tell me what to believe and what not to." There was no use. The truth coming out was the problem, not who leaked it. There was nothing to gain by bringing to Rory, whoever revealed everything to the media. The damage was done. The divorce was done. There was no going back on that. Now, I needed to focus on getting my wife back. She may not be my wife on paper, but she would always be my wife to me. "Rowan, she is not w
_________________...I completely ignored my ex-husband as I marched over to my two male friends. "I thought we made it clear that it was a girls' trip. Why are you two gatecrashing it?"Kevin winced in Rowan's direction and that only made me scowl at him some more. "Answer her." Zoe was ignoring her man like she ignored her mother's endless calls and text messages. "We wanted to gatecrash!" Kevin threw his arms around his girl and pulled her to him. "I felt bad for fighting.""That's new." Zoe shrugged his hands off of her. "You, for one, never feels bad about fighting. In fact, half the fights between us are because you like to fight for no reason!" Her voice raised and broke at the same time when she said it. It was obvious that she was getting tired of the constant breaks and patch ups. The old me would have asked her to stay since she loved him so much but the new me had half a mind to tell her to just ditch him and get a more peaceful relationship. I was a bad friend to K
_________________..."What?" Zoe was standing on the bed. It was late at night and instead of our previous plan to dine out and sleep in, all the girls were in my bedroom, eating pizza and talking shit. "No way in hell did he have the audacity to say that!" She screeched. "But he did." I pointed out. I said, taking a bite of the breadstick that came with the pizza. It was the most delicious thing I have ever tried and I strongly believed my pregnancy had something to do with me liking it so much because I have had this breadstick from this joint plenty of times before. Just never was I pregnant when I tried it before. "Okay okay so let me get this straight!" Bianca joined Zoe as she stood up on the bed too. "So according to Rowan, you set him up. You are the one who leaked to the press those pictures which inevitably had you guys bound in that shipwreck of marriage. You." "Exactly." I nodded. "Who does he think he is? David Beckham? Tom Cruise?" Zoe was raging. "Let's not brin
__________________...~~ROWAN KELLER~~"You!" I looked over at Rory and then at the bitch who had decided to come to make things worse. "Ophelia, what are you doing here?" I asked her, crossing my arms over my chest. "Sweetheart, it's not like I am interested in seeing her." She nodded towards Rory and then gave Zoe a distasteful look. "Or her." She walked over to me and took my hands. "I am here to see you, stupid." I shrugged off her hands immediately and took a step away from her and towards Rory, who was looking straight ahead and not sparing me even a glance. "And what exactly do you want from me?" I asked. "Well, I want you." Zoe scoffed. Ophelia turned to give her a glare before turning back to me and continuing. "I want you but that's besides the point right now. I am here for something else." "And what exactly is that?" I asked her. "Whatever it is, can you both get out of my house?" Rory spoke up. Ophelia raised a brow at her. "Don't you think you should be her