Chapter 0327
He didn’t randomly text me as he always did. After we made love, he didn’t stay up, hold me in his arms to chat about work or strike up any other random conversation. He’d either turn away and go to sleep and get to work.
He didn’t laugh as much as he used to anymore and whenever he did, his eyes lacked joy and his laugh was flat. I tried to do everything to get him to talk to me, anything that would stop him from slipping through my fingers but it was like he had built this impenetrable wall around. himself, locking himself away from everyone.
I tried to be understanding. “He’s just overwhelmed,” I had thought and -believed because I was too.
Marriage wasn’t a walk in the pack and things had happened quickly
between. And in between wanting to spend the rest of my life..
with the man I had crazily fallen in love with, I felt overwhelmed and scared but I believed that as long as we had each other, we would survive every storm.
But Aiden didn’t think the same, because after a while, he came up with some flimsy excuse and left the country.
At least when we were together, he was subtle in ignoring me but in another country, thousands of miles away from me, he outrightly ignored me.
If I was lucky and he picked up my call, he’d grumble an excuse and afterward end the call. “Let’s talk later, Sharon,” he’d groan like I was some burden he didn’t even want to think about.
Again, I tried to understand even though my hurt hurt everyday like a
was lodged there.
But soon, it started grating on my nerves more and more as each day
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passed. And I knew I couldn’t keep sitting back and be stupidly patient. If I did, I’d lose him, regardless of the contract. And so, I left my beloved business to someone I trusted and left my comfort zone, my home, to see a man. My man. To see what exactly was wrong. Was he that scared about the idea of marriage?
While I prepared for my trip, I hired a private investigator to keep tabs on him and his previous dealings since he returned to the country. I wasn’t happy that I had to monitor him. I hated it, it made me feel guilty and desperate but it had to be done.
It was the day I left for the country that Aiden left for Aiden that I got the very first report from the investigator. There was a lengthy write up that I skipped to the photographs that gripped my interest.
It was a picture of my man and a certain woman. She looked pretty ordinary to me and I didn’t see what was so special or gripping about
her that Aiden was drawn to.
The woman had a small smile on her face but Aiden looked at her like she was the whole world. The same look he always had on whenever we just bagged an invaluable contract. Yes, that look. Maybe an even enhanced version.
In another picture, it was the woman and a child in the picture. A cute. girl, might I say.
Later, when I read through the summary of the report, I discovered that the woman worked in his company and was his ex. Her name is
Anastasia.
“This is what it is?” I scoffed as I glared at the woman in the picture.
It didn’t matter if she had a cute girl or if she was his ex or whatever, no one, absolutely no living being, would come between Aiden and 1.
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