I Carried My Husband’s Mistress’s Baby and Walked Away novel Chapter 5

Chapter 5

In that instant, the entire cemetery fell silent.

Julian stared at me like he’d been hit. “What did you just say? What do you mean we’re not husband and wife anymore?”

His hands shook as he picked up the final divorce decree from the ground.

The second he flipped it open and saw the names printed inside, he jerked like an electric current had run through him

and hurled the paper away.

He couldn’t believe it, not when I’d always loved him more than my own life.

I’d even swallowed the ultimate humiliation and carried the IVF embryo created from my husband and his mistress, so

how could I possibly agree to a divorce?

“No… no way,” he rasped. “No way! Where did you get that? I never agreed to a divorce.” “I never filed for it, and I never

signed a divorce agreement.”

“It’s fake,” he insisted, voice cracking. “You forged it to scare me and force me to cut Jenna off, didn’t you?”

Jenna snatched up the decree, and the official seals made her eyes flash with a smug joy she hid in a blink.

She put on a wounded face anyway. “Claire, I know you don’t like me, but everyone knows you love Julian more than you

love yourself.”

“You already had the baby, and now you’re using this fake, dramatic stunt to play hard to get.”

“Men don’t like that,” she added sweetly. “Besides, I was only helping Julian blow off steam wirile you were pregnant.”

“Everything was me chasing him and tempting him, and he only ever had you in his heart.

“Please don’t lie to him like this just to punish him,” she begged. “If you really can’t stand me, I’ll leave right now and

never bother your family again.”

“As for the baby… He was born unlucky. If anything happens to him later, that’s just his fate.” “No wonder he shares a

name with that nephew who died young.”

I caught the calculation that slipped through her expression, and I let out a cold, short laugh.

Before I could speak, the surprise drained from Jullan’s face, leaving only reluctance to let go.

He yanked Jenna back by the arm. “No. You’re too naïve, and you’re only safe if you’re with me.”

“I won’t let anyone hurt our child.”

He frowned and took a deep breath, then turned toward me.

“Claire,” he said, forcing softness into his tone, “I told you. I was only helping her, nothing more.”

“My heart is yours, and I’m not divorcing you, so stop trying to provoke me with this.”

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‘I’m giving you ten minutes,” he added. “Call the cemetery and have our son’s headstone removed.”

“Just treat it like doing something good for your nephew, okay?”

“I really don’t want to do it myself,” he said, voice hardening. “Don’t make me.”

I spat, disgust twisting my mouth. “Good deeds?”

“You think that bastard deserves me doing him a favor?”

“When you were cheating with this trash, did you ever think about doing something good for our child?”

“And you still have the nerve to say your heart is mine.” I snapped. “You slept with her, you defended her while you humiliated me, and you call that love?”

“You think you haven’t laid hands on me before?”

“You killed our baby with your own hands, and you think you’re clean?”

“You knew the one thing I hate most in this world is a side piece, and you still crawled into bed with her behind my

back.”

That’s love?”

Julian, you can take that kind of love and give it to a dog, and even a dog wouldn’t want it.”

The slap landed with a sharp crack, and the force knocked me down.

Julian’s eyes were bloodshot. “You’re lying!”

“I love you,” he shouted. “Am I still not loving you enough?”

“I told you it was an accident,” he insisted, voice shaking with rage. “Why won’t you believe me?”

In all these years, it was the first time he’d ever hit me like that.

I stared at him, my eyes reddening at the edges.

When he met my look-my disbelief-something seemed to snap him awake.

Panic and guilt crashed into his face as he reached for me. “I… I didn’t mean to.”

“I just couldn’t stand you questioning my love,” he stammered. “I didn’t mean to hit you, Claire.”

‘I’m sorry. Don’t be mad at me.”

*Just have the headstone removed,” he pleaded, “and the four of us can live a good life together from now on, okay?”

I laughed under my breath at the hypocrisy. “No.”

“From now on, there’s only the three of you,” I said. “There is no Claire in your family.”

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Julian, we’re done.”

The second the words left my mouth, his assistant’s call came through.

“Mr. Prescott! Something happened, the assistant blurted. “Mrs. Evelyn Prescott just released a public statement and

posted your final divorce decree.”

“She announced your divorce is official.”

“And she posted proof of everything you’ve done over the years-every time you helped Jenna frame your wife.”