บททั้งหมดของ When Our Daughter Died, My Husband Cheated: บทที่ 71 - บทที่ 80

Melissa’s POVI’m starting to regret agreeing to Grandpa’s terms.I can’t sleep last night. I keep thinking about the blind date and how it would go. Not because I’m excited, but because I’m nervous. It only occurred to me when I got home that I would spend the night having dinner with someone I don’t know at all.How long has it been since I’ve gone on a date? I don’t even remember. I didn’t date around when I was younger, and I’m pretty sure that Andrew never took me out on one. I’m a complete novice. An average girl from high school has a lot more experience than me.But I can’t back out now. And I definitely can’t rest now, because I’m entering the office and I’m vaguely registering that everyone at the lobby is abuzz.“He’s here?” some of the employees keep repeating at each other like seagulls. “He’s really here?”Ignoring them, I run towards the elevator that just started to close its doors. A hand shoots up from inside to stop it from closing completely, and I rush inside, wip

Melissa’s POVI never thought I would enjoy conversation with a stranger, but here we are. I’m feeling relaxed. I don’t know if it’s the alcohol or not, but it would be good to have a nice time.“How did you meet Grandpa?” I ask.“Oh.” Ross seems genuinely taken aback by the question. “Um… well, we met when I was starting my own company, you know. It’s a tech start-up. I was trying to get some investments going. He happened to be present. That was six months ago.”“Oh, I thought he was in the Netherlands,” I say, frowning.His cheeks go red. “I don’t know. I honestly don’t remember. It’s honestly pretty long ago. It was also a mess. I don’t think we were that close.”All the joy that I seemed to have fades right then and there. I thought this was someone who’s close to Grandpa? Why would he speak about Grandpa so casually?“Did you two not have a good connection?” I try to press. Maybe there were some bad feelings in there. “Grandpa does get weird sometimes when his mind is all over t

Melissa’s POV“You blame me?” I manage to sputter as I stare at Andrew. I don’t know if it’s my anger coming back or the drugs finally wearing off, but things are starting to look as clear as day. “You accuse me of stepping out of our marriage?”“Oh, I’m not accusing you—I’m just observing.” Andrew’s words are full of vitriol. “You agreed to Grandpa’s stupid request and you didn’t even think twice. It’s almost like you wanted to do this for a long time, and you just want none of the blame so you keep putting divorce back on the table!”I can’t believe what I’m hearing. I lean against the lamppost to steady myself. My vision is still spinning and I feel like I’m going to throw up, but I would be damned if I don’t defend myself from him.“I want to divorce you, and I’ve been trying to do that for months,” I say. “You’re the one who refuses to let any of this shit go. Most importantly, you’re the one who stepped out first.”I try to turn around and leave him to chew on that, but as soon

Melissa’s POVWhat I witnessed from the surveillance video is something that I never want to see or hear again. I hate every single second of it.Ross… taking advantage of Ivy.In front of Eleanor.The first thing that popped into my head is why. Why did Eleanor do that to Ivy? Why would she sell her own friend to a man that she barely even knows? A man that I’m pretty sure she just hired? Is it out of spite? Is she really that crazy with hate?I head to work with low spirits, and it’s not just because I was drugged last night either. It’s everything. The date and the footage and what any of it means.Ivy has always been bad to me. Not just mean. She’s been straight up ruthless. It’s no secret that she hates my guts, and if the situations were reversed, she wouldn’t care about me. In fact, she probably was in on the whole thing and I was probably the target victim of Ross. She most likely planned that to be the outcome, for me to be the one in her shoes.But even though I like to thin

Third Person POVAndrew is torn. He can almost tangibly feel two sides pulling at him right now, clawing at him and taking chunks off his heart until it’s no longer beating. He looks at Melissa and it seems that she can’t care less anymore. And he’s right. Melissa has been grieving this for so long, crying about it at night and questioning herself over and over again because of this.“Why do you seem physically unable to believe me?” Melissa would always ask whenever they argued and Andrew would bring this up. “I would never do that to you. Why can’t you see that I didn’t have any motivation to do that?”“No motivation? Let’s see.” Andrew always got sarcastic in the end. “You saw that Eleanor and I are getting closer, and you decided it’s not okay with you. So you drugged me, had me fuck you, so you can have my baby and you can break the only good relationship I have with the woman I really love.”Melissa would always stop whenever he rubbed that in. She cost him the relationship wit