Broken Vows and Buried Twins novel Chapter 44

Julian froze, his lips parting, but he couldn't find the words.

"I've made myself perfectly clear. Please do the smart thing and sign the papers. Dragging this out isn't your style, Mr. Weston. It just makes you look incredibly cheap!"

"You—" Julian's face instantly darkened. The word 'cheap' completely infuriated him.

"Don't think I can't live without you," he said coldly. "I signed the divorce papers ages ago, but they're with the corporate lawyers..."

Before he could finish, Hester yanked open her desk drawer. She pulled out two fresh copies of the agreement and threw them directly onto the desk in front of him.

Julian stared blankly at the documents.

"Identical agreements, in duplicate. I don't mind if you sign them right here, right now."

Julian's hands curled into tight fists at his sides. After a few seconds of heavy silence, he looked up at her, his brow deeply furrowed, his eyes stormy.

Hester didn't back down an inch. "Sign it, Julian. Don't make me look down on you even more."

Julian's lips pressed together fiercely, his jaw tight, fury rolling in the depths of his eyes.

Hester was stubborn, but so was Julian. They had been married for five years; they knew each other's temperaments perfectly. Now that things had escalated to this point, neither was willing to bow their head.

But when Hester actually watched him sign his name on the divorce papers just to protect Melody, her heart still gave an involuntary, painful twist. A ten-year crush that culminated in marriage, the agonizing loss of her children, and this was what it all amounted to.

The price of loving the wrong man was truly devastating!

Hester took a deep breath, fighting down the burn of tears threatening to spill from her eyes.

The second Julian put the pen down, Hester snatched the papers away.

"Just in case you conveniently forget, Mr. Weston, I'll be keeping both original copies. I'll have Evelyn make a photocopy for you to take with you."

Julian stared at her, a chaotic storm of emotions swirling in his eyes.

Hester placed the agreements back in her drawer and looked up at him, her gaze completely void of emotion. "I've accepted the shares and the signed papers. Julian, from this moment on, we are entirely done."

Julian's deep eyes reflected her face. She was so calm. It was as if she wasn't negotiating a divorce, but a perfectly mundane business transaction.

His Adam's apple bobbed. A heavy, suffocating weight settled in his chest, a foreign sensation that only made him more intensely irritated.

Hester put her phone down, rubbing her temples as she let out an exhausted sigh. She didn't want to go back to that house, but she knew her mother's relentless nature. If she didn't show up, Miranda would come storming into her office by the afternoon.

Not wanting to deal with her mother making a scene at work, Hester reluctantly decided to make the trip.

...

Half an hour later, the white Panamera pulled into a private estate nestled halfway up a mountain.

Hester parked, cut the engine, and stepped out, her eyes landing on the black Phantom parked nearby.

There was only one Phantom with that specific vanity plate in all of Northwood City.

Hester's brow furrowed.

"Miss Hester is back!" The maid rushed out of the house, raising her voice the second she saw her. "Come on in, Miss! Madam and Mr. Weston are waiting for you!"

Hearing that, Hester's lips pressed into a tight line.