Lahat ng Kabanata ng So Forever Is Only Ten Years: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 8

I sat numb in the living room all night.Overnight, news that Joshua was seeing someone new dominated the entertainment headlines. The internet was flooded with stories about the two of them, from the yacht he'd bought her for a fortune to footage of him speeding across a bridge over the river with her.Even the comment sections were blowing up.[So much for love. It always ends the same way.][How many rich guys are actually faithful? Isn't it normal for them to have a few women on the side? I just never thought Joshua Ford would be one of them.][Everyone in Kingsbury knew how crazy he used to be about Elise Jensen. The fireworks on their wedding day went on forever.][Those fireworks cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for just a 15-minute show, and they kept them going for three days and three nights.]It was as if Joshua had deliberately made sure I saw every one of those stories. The countless comments made my chest tighten.Back when Ford Group relisted on the stock ma

I was supposed to be discharged the next day.Joshua called not long after he left the hospital. Any trace of gentleness from the past few days was completely absent from his voice."Tina's been suspended from university. Did you put someone up to this? She's threatening to kill herself now! If anything happens to her, Elise, don't blame me for showing no mercy."He hung up before I could say a word.News about Tina spread like wildfire. Trending posts popped up one after another.[You all keep calling her a homewrecker, but where's the proof? It looks like Joshua has wanted to divorce Elise for a long time.][A woman who isn't afraid to go after what she wants is the real heroine here. Elise is just petty—going after someone that young.][Hasn't Elise just been freeloading all this time? She stays home as a housewife. Women like that are useless.]The entire internet had turned on me.Then, Joshua, who rarely posted on social media, shared an update of his own.[My relations

I found myself thinking back to when Elise and I first got together.Once we'd finally made something of ourselves, the first thing we did was get married. We'd grown up together. Both our parents had died young, and we'd supported each other every step of the way to get to where we were. She remembered everything I liked.We had no plans to have a baby and stayed child-free for the first few years of our marriage. However, when I was around 28, I suddenly found myself wanting a kid."When we're old, Ford Group will need an heir. Otherwise, what have we been working this hard for? There'd be no one to inherit this fortune."That was how I'd put it to her at the time. Neither of us was against having children, so we decided to let it happen naturally.Yet neither of us expected anything to go wrong.Elise got seriously ill and had half her stomach removed. It was the result of damage from all the drinking she'd done in those early years, and if the damaged part hadn't been taken o

Elise's POVIt was a month before I saw Joshua again.I'd heard about what happened with Tina. Apparently, Joshua had flown into a rage over it and made sure she was put away on more serious charges.None of it had anything to do with me anymore.At the beginning of the month-long cooling-off period, I had a hard time moving on.The doctors had told me not to drink, but I went looking for the bottom of a bottle anyway. I vomited blood more than once, ended up in the ER more than once, and came close to dying on the operating table.However, once it sank in that I was still alive, I finally let go of everything I'd been holding onto.20 years. Joshua had taken a third of my life.For whatever time I had left, I could finally live for myself.When I arrived at the courthouse, Joshua was already waiting outside."Let's go finalize the divorce," I said flatly.It had only been a month, but I found I had nothing left to say to him.At first, I hated and resented him.Why had he