A minute after the divorce, he removed and blocked her from his contacts! He was more determined to cut ties with her than she was.
The heavy rain was still pouring, and the wind was howling. Raindrops were flying around in the wind, hitting Roxanne's face.
Ouch! She wanted to get a cab back to the office.
With the weather so bad, she had been waiting for nearly half an hour with no driver accepting her request.
The wind kept messing up her hair, time and time again.
And the flying raindrops kept hitting her face, even when she retreated deeper into the steps, she couldn't escape from the rain drops.
In the span of just two months, she had found out that Harrison was a high-flying tycoon; she said she would try to adjust to his status, but before she could do that, she had a miscarriage and was also divorced.
She was working so hard to secure her career, trying to stand tall in front of him, wasn't it just to sincerely love him?
Didn't he understand her humbleness at all?
Well, at that point she was single again, all alone in the world and no one to love her.
She squatted under the eaves of the steps, hugged her legs, buried her head between her knees and sobbed.
It turned out that she wasn't as strong or decisive as she thought she was.
She cried until she was nearly fainting, gasping for breath.
The rain was still falling, and suddenly the wind in front of her was blocked by something.
Someone suddenly hugged her, she looked up, it was Chloe squatting in front of her with an umbrella.
Roxanne quickly wiped her tears and asked, "Chloe, how come you're here?"
Chloe was heartbroken, she had thought that her good friend had found a dependable man.
Back in Novaria, Harrison had asked her to mediate when he quarreled with Roxanne, to talk him up in front of Roxanne.
And everything had changed all of a sudden? How long had it been since he said that, and he was already divorced from Roxanne?
Chloe and Roxanne were from the same class, she understood Roxanne's pride and humility.
Having gone through a marriage with Oliver, she understood more than others why Roxanne insisted on holding onto her career instead of being a full-time wife.
If a woman didn’t make her own money, what would she eat, drink or live on when a man got tired of her?
Only when women earned their own money could they have confidence.
"Anne, don't cry; you still have me."
"Am I stupid to refuse to be the wife of a rich man and insist on divorce?"
Roxanne stopped crying, her eyes were red and swollen, and her voice was hoarse.
"Is being a rich man's wife that easy? You and Harrison were worlds apart. I think he liked you only because he was tired of seeing daughters of the rich and powerful, and found you to be refreshing."
Roxanne sniffled.
Chloe continued to say, "He said he'd support you for life, but when he's fed up, annoyed, and you have no job, you'll be completely out of touch with society, lose your sense of self, with no way out."
"I clearly understand, this kind of CEO's love for an ordinary girl for a lifetime only exists in novels. Even if I didn't divorce Harrison, we would still have various problems. Divorce might be a kind of relief."
At that time, she hadn't completely fallen for him.
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