Chapter 8
Theodore had been waiting for me all along.
So when I finally opened my eyes, he was right there.
This time, I wasn’t blind anymore. I could see the depth of his love.
A week ago, I accepted Theodore’s proposal.
He treats me well, and my heart is willing to open for him again.
Eden laughed as if he’d heard the funniest joke.
“Nimue Rovella, we’re not even divorced yet, and you already have a fiancé?”
“We are divorced.”
As of a month ago.
Before Eden left on his trip, I’d handed him a stack of insurance documents to sign. The divorce papers were tucked in the middle.
So Eden and I were already divorced.
He stared at me in disbelief, eyes turning bloodshot.
“I don’t accept this! I never agreed! How dare you divorce me without my consent?!”
I had no interest in entangling with him any further.
“The divorce papers should’ve arrived at your house by now. From here on out, we go our separate ways.”
“We’re done.”
Hearing me draw such a firm line, Eden clenched his fists, voice trembling.
“Nimue, I’m sorry. I apologize. I know I was wrong before. Lying about the IVF, tricking you-that was all my fault. I’ll make it up to you. I swear.”
“Whatever you want, you can have. However you want to punish me, I’ll take it. Please?”
Suddenly, he dropped to his knees in front of me, slapping himself across the face again and again.
“I’m the bastard. I’ve done too many wrong things.”
“But Nimue, please believe me-I never wanted to divorce you. Forgive me. Give me one more chance. Please?”
I watched coldly, feeling neither relief nor pain, only indifference.
Theodore frowned, his voice dripping with scorn.
“Calling you an animal would be a compliment. You implanted someone else’s children in her body on your honeymoon. Made her suffer through seven months of pregnancy before she found out she was carrying babies for another woman. And now he has the nerve to beg her forgiveness? If I were him, I’d have killed myself long ago.”
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“Someone like you doesn’t deserve her love. And you sure as hell don’t deserve her forgiveness.”
“Get lost!”
Rage flooded Eden’s face. He turned, glaring at Theodore with vicious eyes.
“This is between me and Nimue. You have no right to interfere, outsider!”
Theodore sneered. “Nimue’s my fiancée now. YOU’RE the outsider.”
Eden couldn’t take the provocation. He lunged at Theodore, fists raised.
Theodore didn’t flinch-he’d been itching to teach Eden a lesson anyway.
But I didn’t want to see him get hurt for my sake.
“ENOUGH!”
I turned to Eden. “We’re over. Don’t come near me again.”
I took Theodore’s arm to leave, but Eden grabbed me with obsessive desperation.
“Don’t go, Nimue.”
Where his hand touched me burned like fire. A tremor of dread shot through me-my body shook uncontrollably.
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