A smile crept across Wesley's face when he sensed her fidgeting and realized she was edging closer to him. A clear sign that she was staking out her territory. He lowered his head and planted a gentle kiss on her forehead.
The kiss was comforting for Blair, but heartbreaking for Patty.
She had been with Wayne for more than a year. He had never given her that kind of comforting kiss.
In fact, she had never seen him kiss anyone. The harem that Wayne kept all knew that he could take a woman home, but he hated being kissed.
As time passed, some bolder women would try kissing his face, but never on the lips.
All of a sudden, many things made sense to Patty. People said Wayne was a player and had slept with tons of women.
Many women even boasted of how good he was in bed. But they never mentioned details.
So...that only meant one thing. Wayne's flirtation and promiscuous ways were only a pretense.
'Then what exactly happened on our wedding night?' Patty's face went pasty at that thought. She hadn't even seen his face that night. He insisted on complete darkness. Was that even him in her bed that night?
Patty couldn't bear the pain anymore. She shouted in tears, "I know your real name's Wesley. How could you treat me that way? My grandpa and I were so good to you. But you killed him! I loved you, but you put my parents in jail!"
Wesley looked at her through cold eyes. "They deserved it."
"Seriously? How could you even say that? What about you? You toyed with me and treated me like dirt. When will karma catch up with you?" Patty marched up to him as she spat those words. She was shaking from crying. She had never seen him so unfeeling.
"Toyed with you?" Wesley asked. "Did I ever say I liked you?" Before they got their marriage license, he told her in no uncertain terms that he didn't like her.
But Patty was head over heels in love with him. She told him that as long as they were married, nothing else mattered.
Now, she didn't know what to say. She thought that once they were married, she'd win his heart. She was that good. She was also naive.
But she didn't know that he had already given his heart to someone else. To the woman in his arms right now.
"Wayne, you already destroyed my family. Please don't leave me. You're all I have. Don't you know how much I love you?" she sobbed. She ignored Blair and wrapped her arms around his waist.
But Blair was not just a passive observer. She was getting angrier and angrier by the minute.
She squirmed out of Wesley's embrace and pulled Patty off of him. "Leave him alone! This is Wesley, not Wayne! He loves me, not you!" Blair declared.
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