48 48. Are You Scared?
The large white room with a touch of modern interior felt fresh with the sll of the citrus-scented air freshener. However, the freshness in the room could not reduce the tension between the two won who were in the middle of a discussion. Their brows furrowed, carefully re-reading the divorce papers.
“I have to leave the day after tomorrow. So I want to make sure there’s nothing wrong with the docunt,” Paula said as she turned the pages. “It’s strange. I didn’t mind anything and didn’t ask for any alimony. What made him not want to sign it?”
“He ntioned no reason.”
“Strange.”
“Maybe ... about children?” Helena said as she adjusted her glasses. She skimd the docunts and couldn’t find what she was looking for. “There’s no statent of children in this docunt.”
“No way! He doesn’t care about children at all,” Paula argued.
“Maybe, there is a possibility of you being pregnant,” Helena insisted and Paula imdiately waved her hand in disagreent. She had kept the pregnancy a secret from Helena. She didn’t want to talk about children at all because she knew William didn’t want her baby.
Helena pursed her lips into a thin line. She tightened her loosened bun.
“In that case, the answer is obvious,” Helena concluded with a aningful smile. “He doesn’t want a divorce. Is he captivated by you?”
.....
“Impossible!” snapped Paula. “He’s with his lover. How could he not want a divorce from ?”
Helena lifted her eyebrows, a sign of not knowing what happened. “Well, perhaps ... people can change.”
“Not that fast,” Paula argued again.
“Makes sense. How could a person who cheated on his wife and impregnated his mistress, suddenly choose his legal wife who doesn’t mind at all getting divorced? Moreover, you don’t intend to take away any of his wealth.” Helena analyzed the situation while checking the docunts, afraid that she might have missed sothing. “Does your marriage involve the financial relationship between your parents’ companies? Maybe William is afraid of the negative impact?”
Paula was stunned. In the past, her father had intended to withdraw investnt funds. However, didn’t she already solve it? So, that’s not the reason William refused to sign it.
Suddenly, Paula’s eyes widened as she realized sothing. “Oh, I seem to know the problem.”
Helena fixed the position of her glasses with her index finger. “Good. And what is it?”
Paula was seen flipping through the sheet and pointing to a statent there. “He definitely doesn’t accept saying he is having an affair. At first, I didn’t care if he cheated on or not because this way our divorce process would be done easily and quickly. However, it turned out that he was angry when I accused him of being a cheating husband.”
“What?” Helena frowned, feeling confused even more by Paula’s explanation. “He didn’t cheat on you and knocked up his mistress?”
Paula shook her head slowly. “No, he didn’t. That woman... is pregnant with soone else’s baby.” Paula turned her face anywhere but Helena’s. Her lawyer must have been about to throw up out of confusion.
“And... your soon-to-be ex-husband is going to marry his mistress who is pregnant with another man’s child?” Helena asked again, Paula nodded weakly.
Silence filled Paula’s room. Helena stared at the docunt blankly. “Ah, never mind. I’m confused with you guys.”
“Co on, Helena!” Paula tried to end the argunt. “Just change that part. You can’t accuse soone of doing sothing wrong if he doesn’t, can you?”
Exhaling lightly, Helena nodded in reply. “So, we will delete the adultery grounds for fault divorce. Then we change it to no-fault divorce. Will we cite ‘irreconcilable differences’ as grounds? What do you think?” She sneered, showing how cliche the statent was for her.
Paula’s heart clenched as she nodded. “You can go with that.”
Helena packs her things and is about to leave. She stole glances at Paula and caught a glimpse of doubt crossing her face.
“Paula, as a friend, can I ask you a question?” She deliberately ddled in Paula’s problem since she thought that sothing was off. Usually, this kind of problem was caused by less communication between the couple. “If you don’t mind.”
Paula’s attention turned back to her lawyer and tightened her lips, forming a thin matte peach line. “Sure. What’s that?” She forced a faint smile to show her lawyer that she was okay.
“Do you really want this divorce?” The question was simple, but it made Paula’s heart skip a beat.
“I need your help because I want this fucking divorce, Helena,” Paula answered, feeling annoyed. “You should know it more than anyone else.”
Helena smirked. She licked her red lips to lessen her ssy feelings since she could easily guess the real answer. “Before you go to Japan, you better et him at least once,” Helena said in a soft voice.
Paula smirked. She rembered the last ti she t William. Instead of talking seriously about divorce, they both spent all night long kissing and fucking. If she t him again, she could guess the two of them would end up with more mind-blowing orgasms than so agreents on divorce papers.
“I don’t think I need to,” Paula replied without realizing how beet red her face was. “I t him two days ago and it’s a real waste of ti.”
“The most delicious way to waste the ti,” Helena whispered almost inaudibly once she recognized the faded kiss marks on Paula’s neck. She could easily guess what happened.
“What did you say?” Paula questioned her curiously. Helena was a great and helpful lawyer, but Paula found that she was a little bit nosy as a friend.
“No. I said ... nothing!” Helena teasingly replied. She lowered the corners of her lips, sneering at Paula’s adorable behavior.
Helena was about to leave Paula’s room. That’s when Paula said, “I just want a reset, Helena... I want to erase everything so that he and I can start everything from the beginning when the two of us have never t. Am I wrong?”
Helena shook her head. “You are not. But you should realize that not everything could be reset. The new developnt might be different from what you imagined.”
Paula’s relationship with William was based on lust. Not love. She thought it should be easily replaced with sothing similar. It was supposed to be like that.
“Talk to him, Paula! Face the reality!” Helena said sincerely. “Are you scared?”
“I am not-”
“Yes, you are,” Helena cut Paula’s sentence. “You are afraid of your own feelings.”
***
After hours of thought, Paula decided to visit William. It was better to directly ask him about the problems. For the sake of serious discussion, she visited him in the office.
“Hi, Danica! I have an important matter to discuss with William. Is he available?” Paula stopped at Danica’s table, making her stop from sorting out the docunts.
“Ah, Paula! He is coming in no ti. Today, he is a bit late because he has to visit Vanessa’s school, and finish so paperwork,” Danica explained in surprise. She didn’t expect Paula to stop by the office.
“You can wait inside,” Danica offered her.
“Here is fine,” Paula said, smiling in reply. Her eyes road the familiar room only to find a suspicious pile of boxes on the floor, beside Danica’s table.
“What’s that?” Paula asked, pointing her finger at the boxes.
“I don’t know. William ordered it online,” Danica answered. “Oh, I will bring coffee and refreshnts. Please wait!”
Danica then quickly went to the break room and made coffee for Paula. Her heart was pounding erratically, waiting for what would happen if William ca and found the woman he was in love with waiting in his office. Danica smiled to herself imagining what would happen next.
After the coffee was ready, Danica placed it on a tray and arranged a few pieces of choco chip cookies on a plate. She then hurried back to her table to serve the food for Paula.
Unfortunately, the unexpectedly clumsy Danica was not careful when carrying the tray so she slipped and made the coffee and cookies fall and shattered on the floor.
“Ouch!” Danica scread in shock when her body hit the pile of cardboard boxes ordered by William, making so of them dented and even opened.
“Dani! Oh my God! Are you all right?” Paula panicked and knelt down, helping Danica who was still prone on the floor. She helped Danica up and luckily, Danica’s clothes weren’t dirty. Just a ssy situation made their head spin.
“I’m sorry, Paula, I’ll clean up this ss right away,” Danica said hastily. She quickly picked up the cleaning kit and returned to the table.
However, when Danica returned, she found Paula standing pensively, observing a black and red tube with the male symbol. There was printed on the tube: Make It Bigger.
All adults in the world knew what it was!
At the sa ti, the lift was opened, showing William who had just arrived in his surprised state.
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