Semua Bab Discarding my Loveless Marriage : Bab 11 - Bab 20

The high school reunion was a triennal event, happening once every three years. Ronica had only attended one to flaunt her then new husband James. She never attended any of the last two because James complained that it was a waste of his time while he went about frolicking with other women. The reunion was a matter of egoistic superiority. A battle on who had the best husbands or wives, or the best careers, cars, children, houses and many more. Ronica supposed that Mona assumed she was doing her a favour by sending her into a coma. After all, what would she want to do with our highschool crowd when she had a fleeting husband, no money, and no career? She would only be inviting mockery to myself, especially since she used to drag the top position with Mona. But she was way past caring about her ego. She had every intention to attend the reunion with her head held high. "Madam Simmons, please reconsider. You only just woke up from a serious medical condition," the head medical personne

With masterful and villainous pretence, Mona had succeeded in turning the tides. She had made Ronica what she painted Ronica out to be. A rude spoilt jealous housewife. "We all know Mona is just a secretary but she wasn't as privileged as us so you need to stop making her feel bad about it," Denise, who was the mistress of looking down on less fortunate people, chastised. "Did you do all these because you were jealous Mona is such a good friend to James? James is already your husband, what else do you want?" "Buying fake Sapphires just to embarrass James. If you wanted them so bad, all you had to do was ask. Ugh." "If you are capable of doing this that means it's true then that you are stopping James from inheriting the family business from his father." "That means it's also true that you never wanted to come to the reunion. You only came because James asked Mona after you turned him down." The wrongful slander overwhelmed Ronica so much that she felt the back of her eyes burn wi

"A hundred and one million? Is he for real?" The hall bustled with hushed voices for a moment. The plot was undoubtedly getting thicker as everyone seemed to be waiting with bated breaths for James' reply. James remained uncharacteristically silent while Eric smirked. "To summarize, a hundred million dollars is what the Ocean sapphires are currently valued at. For the inconvenience of having to take them from whom I have gifted them to in order to sell it to you so you can gift them to your secretary, I am charging a personal profit of one million. A paltry sum. This way, your secretary may be a hundred million worth but Ronny will always be a million dollars worthier." "What are you rambling on about?" Mona shouted. "At the end of the day, they're just stones. No sane man would spend that much money on the Ocean sapphires, talk less of fake ones." "Stay out of this," Eric snapped at Mona, his voice carrying a severe undertone of threat. She'd better listen to him. After all, her c

It was reaching a week since James Simmons lost his wife. Again. She was supposed to be in a coma so he had let his guard down. But that was Ronica for you. Attacking from behind like a simple coward. And somehow, she knew Eric Strauss. How? James could think of only one reason and it terrified him. He still remembered the last call he made with Ronica. She had switched phones with a random nurse and James had not expected to be sidetracked that way. But he had maintained his composure as she rattled on the line about forwarding another number. He couldn't help but laugh even as the laughter made him bitter. "Well played Ronica." "I learned from the best, James." James could feel his face going purple and all he really wanted to do was hurl his phone against the wall. Instead, he ran shaky fingers through his hair. "How can you run off like that when you're going to have our baby?" "Stop it with your clown games with me. Go play them with Mona." "I got you back once. Do you real

Mona was about to go crazy while hiding in the bathroom, away from James. She could not believe all the stuff he had just told her, the confessions. She felt like she had walked right into a TV drama. She could not believe that once upon a time, she imagined that it would be simple claiming James and all that he promised while leaving Ronica hanging dry. But James had an appalling dark past; a past darker than even he was ready to admit. Here was the story. Patrick's wife, Clarice Simmons was having infertility problems. In her late forties, she and Patrick finally gave up on their efforts to conceive and chose instead to adopt a child. They adopted a seven year old boy named Eric. Patrick and Clarice genuinely loved the boy especially as he turned out to be a genius. They truly were the premium family. But a year later, tragedy struck. Not with the Simmons' family, but somewhere far away. On the other side of the country when a woman's life was about to be taken by cancer, she dumpe