The Unwanted Wife's Return (Ex-Husband Wants Me Back) novel Chapter 351

Refused 

I had sent them through his lawyer. Through his secretary. Through every channel I could think of. And every time, the response was the same: silence. 

He was ignoring the papers. Pretending they didn’t exist. Living his life as if I had never been a part of it, as if our marriage had been nothing more than a minor inconvenience he could simply outlast. 

There had once been a time when I still clung to hope. 

A foolish part of me had believed that maybe, somewhere beneath all the lies and betrayals, Alistair still loved me. Maybe, in his own twisted way, he was trying to protect me. Maybe he was just confused. Maybe he needed time. 

Now I knew better. 

He was just a coward. Instead of facing reality, he chose to run from it. Instead of taking responsibility for his mistakes, he buried them beneath a carefully crafted fantasy and pretended the problem no longer existed. 

He wanted to have everything. The wife at home, the mistress in public, the daughter who worshipped him. He wanted to keep all the pieces of his life in their separate boxes, never overlapping, never colliding, never forcing him to make a choice. 

But I had made the choice for him. 

The divorce papers were the line I had drawn. And he was pretending the line didn’t exist. 

The next morning, I decided to stop pretending too. 

Elowen was at school. The house was empty. I sat at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee I had forgotten to drink, 

a stack of business cards spread out in front of me, and my phone pressed against my ear. 

The first call went to voicemail. 

“Hello, you’ve reached the law offices of ” 

I hung up and dialed the next number. 

“Firm of Harrison and Associates. Please hold.” 

I held. And held. And held. 

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