CEO Proposed to His Ex-wife 99 Times novel Chapter 329

While it was true that the paparazzi had been able to get photos of Marshall and Clara several times, there wasn’t actually anything seedy going on. Their get-togethers had been strictly work-related, and they had been flanked by their assistants all those times.

Marshall raised his eyebrows. “I’d hate to worry you with my news, you know.”

Katherine kept her gaze squarely on the road ahead. “Not worried. You are simply an inescapable figure in the gossip section of any news site.”

Marshall made a clear sneering sound.

After that, Katherine got quiet. She didn’t want to talk because they could never actually peacefully talk now. Marshall always sounded mean-spirited when he talked to her, and even Katherine herself couldn’t help her insinuating tendencies when speaking to him.

The rest of the car ride was spent in silence. As they approached Katherine’s place, Marshall stopped the car and grabbed tightly on the steering wheel. Keeping his eyes away from Katherine, Marshall stared intently at the empty space before him.

As Katherine opened the door, she decided to say her thank-you to Marshall before she exited the car and walked towards the front gate.

Marshall rolled down the window. “Katherine.”

Katherine stopped and turned around. “What else do you want?”

Marshall turned his gaze slowly towards her. “I’ve been trying to comprehend it for the past few days but I haven’t been able to figure it out. What’s so good about Hector?”

Katherine frowned. Why did they have to talk about Hector, again?

Marshall looked genuinely curious. “What do you like about him? Is it his good looks? Or it is because you like to hear him sing?”

Because these superficial features wouldn’t really be able to capture a woman’s heart, would they? And Katherine didn’t seem like the kind of shallow women to him.

Katherine stood right in front of Marshall as she watched him closely. She decided she would take the question as a representation of his genuine confusion.

Katherine looked dead serious. “Hector may not be perfect, but he treats me so much better than you do, Marshall.”

As she recalled her old life, she couldn’t help but smile bitterly. “I don’t have to tell you how miserable I was when I lived with your family since you know all about it. After the divorce, I actually tried very hard to work on our relationship, and because nobody knew about the divorce yet, I thought that if you wanted to give us a chance, I’d be all for it, too. But you never tried to truly understand me. You never seemed to realize that my patience and my affection could one day wear thin. I won’t wait around for you forever. I can get tired. Hector treats me very well – especially when compared to you. It was only after I met him when I realized that I deserved to be cared for and treated nicely too.”

Shrugging, Katherine exhaled, as if sighing. “Therefore, I’m asking that we part ways here.”

For a long time, Marshall kept his eyes on her and didn’t look away for a second. “Did I, did I really treat you so horribly?”

To say that Marshall was a completely bad husband to her would be a lie. Even when he failed everything else, Marshall had been consistently willing to shower her with money.

But such was human nature to be greedy. When she was poor, she had thought that money was all she needed. But after she was able to get financial support from someone, she expected from him love. And when she failed to get love, she would panic, worry, and toss and turn. She would be sad.

Katherine broke into a faint smile. “Not really. I guess it’s just that compared to the times you’ve been nice to me, you’ve been mean a lot more. Consequently, I’m still not happy overall.”

Marshall exhaled. He had been meaning to ask her about some more things, but looking at the woman before him, he decided to bite down those questions, because he would only be asking to be hurt.

Marshall nodded before saying, “I hope that Hector…”

He meant to say “I hope that Hector treats you well,” but that would be an even harder thing to vocalize.

Marshall pursed his lips for quite some time, but he didn’t do anything other than rolling up the window, turning the steering wheel, and hit the accelerator to drive away.

Katherine stood where she was as she watched Marshall’s car disappear. Clutching at her chest, the blunt pain came back to her.

When Katherine got home, she lay down on the yoga mat to meditate.

There were a lot to meditate about, but as she lay on her back, the only thing on her mind was the image of Marshall sitting in his car.

Katherine covered her face with a hand. It was said that love killed, but she wasn’t she whom love was supposed to kill.

The talent show that Rosalie Haverford invested in got off the ground very quickly.

Hector went to meet with her a couple more times before the agreement was made. Hector wouldn’t be one of those competitors that would appear in the first rounds of audition; he would only show up after the first rounds of competition were done.