“Of course, he had to choose a place like this!” Reyona thought in anger as she got out of her car and trudged through the fake sea sand to the retro Seashore Restaurant, acclaimed for catering to only seafood and their lovers.Well, Reyona was no lover of foods that wiggled like they were going to pop out of her throat and dance the samba. She was even less of a fan of the bastard that had made her come to such a place at that time of the night.Would it have been too much to ask that the idiot let them fix their meeting for the next day, during the day, away from everything seafood? Of course not!Reyona was certain that he had deliberately done this to pay her back and maybe also to see just how well she was willing to fight for the contract."Bastard,” she muttered under her breath as more sand entered her wedges. “What am I even doing?” she thought to herself in annoyance. “It was not as if the bastard was the CEO of the company. Even if he was a major shareholder, so what?”She k

“Are you saying that you don’t believe in your company’s ability and you have to ask me for favours?” Maxwell asked partly out of curiosity.The expression in her eyes said it all before she said, with a snap in her voice, “No, I am not saying that, Mr. Rohan. I am saying that I wouldn’t appreciate being sabotaged because of whatever vendetta you have against me.”It surprised Maxwell that the fact that she thought that of him hurt a little. He was known to be a man without emotions; some of the women he had ever tangled with would even go as far as to say that he was a cold man.What did he care if a married, snippy woman thought him to be a scoundrel? The irony was that he cared. And that not only annoyed him but also made him want to put her in her place. She, who couldn’t figure out what her husband was doing under her nose for years, thought she had the right to judge him. Well, she would have to think again.“Are you saying that you believed me so despicable that I would take awa

He refused to get down.Reyona blamed herself for the umpteenth time for putting herself in this situation. If she had not been overthinking about what he could do regarding the bid, she wouldn’t have called him. Not to talk about agreeing to meet up with him.“How then would I have ended up in this situation?” she blamed herself as she drove away from the restaurant’s parking lot. She had no choice but to do that since other cars were honking at her. The dog in the truck added his enthusiastic bark when she was honked at, and that became the last straw for her.“Did he not come there with his car?” she thought fleetingly but refused to ask him as he currently had his head rested against his seat, with his eyes closed as if she were his chauffeur taking him out on a trip.Bastard! She thought he could walk to wherever he was going for all she cared, even while she wondered if he was truly crazy enough to not come with a ride of his own.She kept driving as she stubbornly refused to ask

“I never wanted to disappoint you, Grams. I never…” Reyona paused as she realised that she had unconsciously never wanted what happened to her parents to happen to her; she did not want an unhappy home or a separated one. Even as that feeling sank in, she remembered the vow she made to herself on her wedding day. “Till death do us part indeed,” she laughed bitterly as more tears squeezed out of her eyes, unaware that her vice was carrying on the night wind. “"I was such a fool. I am such a fool. I have failed, grandmother. I have a husband who would rather be with another woman than make a family with me. I have a mother-in-law who could look me straight in the eyes despite all I have done and still deceive me along with her son. I…” She was unable to continue as her breath started heaving and she was crying profusely.The floodgate had finally opened, and she had no idea how to stop it. She stopped trying, and she let it all out. Silently, she wept her soul out right in front of the

Reyona braced herself the following morning for Thomas’ confrontation. She had been unable to have much sleep the night before, partly because of his incessant knocking and more because of the turmoil in her heart.“Well, there was no going back now,” she said to herself in the mirror as she did her makeup. She woke up earlier than normal to get dressed for work. She had no intention of making any breakfast, not that either of them would be in the mood to eat anyway.She couldn’t believe that she had slapped him the night before, but somewhere beneath the shock, she felt a bit of excitement that she had done it. The bastard deserved more than that, of course, but she had made up her mind fully during her toss and turn that she would simply let go of him and take charge of her life back.She was glad that she at least had some of her money back, and the woman herself was getting what she deserved now. She knew that Thomas's anxiety recently had to do with that as well. She had determine