My Husband Said I Was Fake So I’d Learn To Be Obedient Chapter 09
After leaving the hospital, I rented an apartment.
The first thing I did was contact a lawyer and have him draft the divorce agreement. But even after the papers were sent to Adrian, he refused to sign them.
Then he started looking for me like he had lost his mind.
When I blocked his number, he used other people’s phones to call me.
His texts went from urgent to desperate.
[Evie, I had everyone who hurt you that night taken into custody. They’ll receive the harshest punishment possible.]
[Evie, I know I was wrong. Please, let’s not get divorced,okay?]
[Please,just meet me once. Just once.]
I looked at those messages and felt nothing.
All his so-called attempts to make amends did nothing except prove what a useless husband he had been.
Still, I agreed to see him once. Not for any other reason. I only wanted him to sign the divorce papers.
It was raining that day.
Adrian was leaning against the wall. It had only been half a month since I last saw him, yet he had lost a shocking amount of weight.
The straight, proud posture he used to have was gone. His back was hunched, his jaw was covered in dark stubble, and his eyes were bloodshot.
When he saw me,his eyes lit up for a second, only to dim again almost immediately.
“Evie..”
He stopped three steps away from me, as if he no longer dared to come closer.
I looked at him calmly.
“Have you read the agreement? If there’s no problem, sign it. If you have any concerns, talk to my lawyer.”
“I won’t sign.”
He looked at me desperately, his voice hoarse.
“Evie, don’t leave me. I know I was wrong. I know everything now.”
“Chloe lied to me. She lied to me about everything.”
His eyes were red, and he looked like a helpless child.
“I thought you were always being unreasonable.I thought you were targeting her, so l…”
He covered his face, his shoulders shaking hard.
A gust of wind blew past, sweeping fallen leaves across the ground.
I listened quietly to his explanation and found it almost laughable.
“Are you done?”
He froze, then nodded blankly.
“Adrian,” I said, my voice nearly lost in the rain.
“Do you think that as long as you prove you were deceived, as long as you prove you were an innocent victim too, I should forgive you?”
He opened his mouth to argue,but no sound came out.
“But so what?”
I looked at him and laid the bloody truth bare,
piece by piece.
“The truth was never the most important part. The important part was that you never gave me even the most basic trust.”
“You had known me for so many years. You knew what kind of person I was. But the moment Chloe appeared,you believed every word she said.”
I paused and watched the color drain little by little from his face.
“And now that you’ve finally investigated everything, what does that prove? Only that everything she did was easy to uncover.”
“You could have checked sooner. You could have checked at any time. But you only thought to look after our child was gone.”
“You aren’t regretting this because you love me.You regret it because you realized you were played,because you realized you had turned yourself into a complete joke.”
A cold smile touched my lips.
“But if you had trusted me from the beginning,how would things ever have reached the point where you forged a DNA test report just to make me behave?”
I stopped looking at him, took out my key,and opened the building door.
“Sign the papers, Adrian. Leave yourself one last shred of dignity.”
The building door slowly closed between us.
Through the door, Adrian’s voice sounded painfully fragile.
“If I sign, does that méan I’ll never see you again?”
