Divorce me I'm done serving you (Ayla) novel Chapter 583

Chapter 583 Unreturned

The more Skyla talked, the more worked up she became, and the more unwilling she felt to accept it. That feeling was not aimed only at Ayla, but also at herself. She had tried so hard and gotten nothing in return. There was no hope in sight. Even if Ayla had never existed, Skyla would still have felt the same resentment and frustration.

Ayla actually understood her quite well.

“I thought he’d always treated you well. Turns out it was like that for you too… But that really does sound like Troy. Hot and cold. Just when you think you’re a little closer to him, he turns around and hits you hard. Then he uses the cruelest attitude and the most cutting words to tell you that you’re nothing special,” Ayla said quietly.

Troy no longer stirred any emotion in Ayla. She was no longer avoiding his name and could talk about him calmly now.

Then she asked. “So what is it you want to tell me?”

Surely Skyla had not come just to vent at her.

Coming to see Ayla had been an impulsive decision. This was the only person she could talk to about this. Even if it meant embarrassing herself and slapping her own pride in the face, she could not stop herself from coming.

“I tried for so long, I was like some useless … friend. Maybe not even that. One moment he lifted me up, the next he froze me out like I didn’t exist. I never knew what he wanted. I wanted to try harder, but I didn’t even know how” Skyla said, her voice tight.

She clenched her teeth and stared at Ayla. “Ayla, you were different. You went after him, and he married you. So I lost to you.”

Ayla had not expected Skyla to come digging up old wounds, opening herself up and talking her heart out just to feel better.

Skyla was giving her too much credit. Ayla had no idea what Skyla had been through, or how hard the blow had really been.

Maybe when Troy married Ayla, Skyla had been hit hard too. After some time, she might have seen hope again, only to end up disappointed all over. That was probably when she finally broke down and came to Ayla. Even though Ayla was not exactly a good person to confide in, and even though Skyla risked being mocked, she still came.

She must have been truly crushed.

Ayla was silent for two seconds, then said, “First, there was never a competition between you and me. Second, even if I did win, it wasn’t a happy win. I didn’t get any prize. If anything, it was worse than losing.”

What her former lover had given her was emotional neglect, the loss of a child, and endless entanglement after the divorce.

When Troy later said he loved her, Ayla felt nothing. She only found it ridiculous.

Because words like “I love you” meant nothing. They sounded deep and sincere, but all she had ever endured was pain. Coming from Troy, those words felt especially hollow.

But since she had been the one who loved the wrong person, she had to swallow the consequences herself. Ayla had never complained to anyone.

She could not compete in ability, and she could not untangle her feelings either.

Skyla felt like she had lost completely.

“Anything else you want to talk about?” Ayla askel

Skyla had come to Ayla on impulse to vent. Saying it out loud did make her feel a little better, but the pain and resentment were still there. She asked, “Has Troy contacted you?”

“No,” Ayla said.

That answer made Skyla feel slightly relieved. “He hasn’t contacted me for months either.”

“No matter what he does, he never explains himself. If he wants to disappear, he disappears. He might come looking for you again. Or he might just stay… a stranger forever,” Ayla said.

Silence spread between them. No one spoke another word. After about ten seconds, Ayla stood up to leave, and Skyla started crying.

Those tears might have been for Troy, but not entirely. They might also have been for herself. For the years she had given up, for her youth, for chasing a single thread of hope and believing she had finally made it to the end, only to find that in the end, she still had nothing at all.