The Marvelous Elijah's Return novel Chapter 3

Lying in bed, Elijah sighed heavily while running his fingers through his thick hair. His mood had drastically changed ever since his fight with Melina. He could feel the pain that throbbed inside him, and he hated it.

To learn that his wife was into another man was devastating to Elijah, and no matter how hard he thought about their fight, he just didn’t want to accept the fact that she was cheating on him.

“Damnit!!” Elijah groaned in frustration.

Tired, he buried his face into his pillow, his fists tightly clenched while his mind replayed their conversation, wishing that he had told her about his identity earlier.

Maybe that would have made Melina happy.

If she knew who he truly was then she would still be loving him.

But that didn’t change the fact that it was painful and humiliating to be rejected by the woman he loved. And to know she had chosen another man because of his wealth.

When Elijah first arrived in the country, as a foreigner, he was still new to everything, and one night at a bar, Melina approached him and that was the beginning of their friendship.

But it immediately turned into something heated that same night when she invited him over to her hotel room and they had sex, which ended up with their relationship becoming way more serious than he ever thought it would.

Right now, he felt confused as to where the Melina he first met was, not wanting to lose the real woman he has fallen for so deeply. Because the truth was, Elijah didn’t know if she was worth fighting for anymore.

Sighing loudly, Elijah sat up straight and rubbed the sleep out of his tired hazel eyes, grabbing his phone from beside him and looking at the time.

“Six am..?” Elijah whispered as he dropped his phone back on the sheets.

Leaning his weight on the pillows, he stared at his surroundings in shock, wondering why the hell he had not fallen asleep at such a later hour.

But honestly, the thought of Melina had never left his mind the entire night. The ones that were full of love and passion, moments that he remembered all too clearly from their past, and the way she kissed him with such a burning passion… the feeling of her body against his own, the warmth that lingered between them after their heated kiss, the soft moan she gave when he bit her neck…

The memory of those things was still fresh, and his heart ached at the thought that the value of their love was measured by monetary things.

The nights he cuddled her, her sick days that he nursed her back to health, moments when he held her in his arms, and the times he made sure she slept well and ate healthily – it was all just meaningless to her because they were not worth money and luxurious things.

But his feelings for her remained intact, even though she had hurt him and broken his trust.

Because deep down, Elijah still wanted to believe that she would always belong only to him and no one else, and even though she abused or neglected him, they were still meant to be together.

There were only two people in the world that mattered to him: his family and Melina, and Elijah didn’t want that to change.

With the sound of the guest room door suddenly opening, Elijah looked to the doorway and saw Melina standing there wearing a robe with her short brown curls framing her face.

For a moment, Elijah focused on her tired eyes, knowing that she was suffering from a hangover, and then his gaze lowered to the folder in her hand.

“Morning,” He spoke quietly and watched Melina’s expression turn sour at the sight of him.

Ignoring his greeting, Melina stretched out the folder to him and said, “Here. Sign it!”

A look of confusion and concern etched itself onto Elijah’s face as he stared down at the file and took it from her hand, opening it up.

“You want a divorce?” Elijah asked softly, his tone filled with disbelief.

Melina’s lips twitched downwards slightly as she shrugged her shoulders, saying, “It’s been years, Elijah. You can’t keep holding onto me like this. It will only hurt me more and my image.”

The words she just said seemed to make no sense to Elijah as he continued to stare down at the documents, trying to find some sort of logic behind her actions.

“This marriage is not working for either of us,” Melina explained. “We just need to go our separate ways and stay away from each other.”

“Stay away from each other?” Elijah mumbled, his brows furrowing slightly as he began flipping through the papers. “Is this divorce finalized? I don’t understand what is going on…”

“I don’t want to be associated with you anymore! What’s not there to understand? Don’t you get that?” Melina snapped at him.

“What are you talking about?” Elijah questioned, shaking his head. “I don’t understand anything that is happening right now…”

“Do you know the shame I went through last night? Everyone at my party knew I was married to you. They probably even laughed and teased me.”