"How dare you slap !" The lady raised her hand about to slap Maria back.
*Pah*
The hit landed on the man that had been kneeling in between the two.
"Sasha! What are you doing?! Stop!"
Sasha's eye's widened. "You're the one that always cos begging to spend so ti with you. You said you love ! Why are you taking her side now?"
Her eye's reddened with a madness that could not be feigned.
"What do you an. You're the one that had been threatening this whole ti. You said that you would expose to my wife and daughter if I didn't co. I just wanted to protect my family."
He wanted to salvage any good feelings that his wife might still have for him.
In other words, he was delusional and desperate.
A scary combination.
Sasha scoffed.
"What a joke."
"Maria! You can look at my ssages. I still have them here!" Marcus, Maria's husband, raced to the bedside table where he left his phone.
He scrolled through the ssages before reaching the one in which Sasha had threatened him.
"See! It's all because of her. I wouldn't have done it if she had not threatened !"
Maria briefly glanced at the ssages before looking back at Marcus. She couldn't believe that he was serious.
For once she agreed with this Sasha.
How absurd.
He was saying that he was threatened, but couldn't he even take a good look at what he was being threatened with…
Now she wasn't sure who was really the crazy one.
She just settled with the both of them.
"Marcus, you can give it up. I will never forgive you for taking away Rose's family. You realized that she could only threaten you because you were the one to cheat on first, right? You also seed to be more than happy with this arrangent."
"NO!"
"Maria, I'm telling you, it wasn't my fault. It was her! She seduced first."
"And you seduced her second. Potato, patato."
"I just want a peaceful divorce, and don't you dare drag Rosy in this, or I will forgo any last considerations I have for you as her father." Maria was reaching the ends of her patience. She was incredibly upset with herself.
How did she not notice this before?
Is this what people ant by 'love makes you blind'?
All those signs, ignored, just to preserve sothing as rotten as this.
"Who do you think you are?" Sasha who had been ignored until then shouted the most cliché line in the book.
"Whatever. I'm out of here."
Sasha's stomped out of the room, but it was already surprising enough that she hadn't made more of a fuss considering how humiliated she felt.
She left with a head of ssy hair and a red palm print on her face. If one didn't know of the circumstances that had led her to be in such a state, surely there would be n lining up to console her.
She was still fuming as she walked down the hall and so she didn't notice the small figure that was still hiding behind the pillar and thank god she didn't, or this might have turned into another cliché kidnapping arc.
Then Sasha would really beco the most cliché character out there.
Rose's back slid down the pillar that she had been leaning on her butt hitting the cold ground.
Even if she didn't really understand what was going on, as a child, she had sharp instincts, and they told her that it was nothing good. Sotis, it is much harder to hide things from children. They are more perceptive than you believe them to be.
She hadn't heard of words like seduced, but she had been introduced to the aning of the word divorce before. One of her classmates had ntioned this word in the midst of sobs and her desk mate later told Rose the aning of a divorce.
'Is mommy leaving daddy?'
"Why are you sitting here on the floor?"
Rose looked up to see a familiar figure. A young lady with raven black hair tied in a ponytail. Her bright hazel eye's looked at Rose with so concern as she extended her hand to help Rose up.
The foreign lady that Rosy had t in the museum, Emilin.
"How co you're here." Rose's voice was a little hoarse.
"I could ask you the sa thing. It doesn't look like your mommy knows you're here." Emilin pointed out. She couldn't help but worry about the situation at hand.
Even if it was sumr here, Rosy could still get a cold from sitting on the cold floor for an extended period of ti, especially when her brain was most likely working overti.
Emilin could tell that Rose was most definitely not in the right state of mind at the mont.
Any more words of concern from Emilin were interrupted by soone much louder.
"YOU CAN'T DO THIS!"
"Please, I won't ever cheat on you again. I promise!"
Marcus was getting desperate. He seed to have sped through the stages of grief. Denial had beco anger and then bargaining in a matter of seconds.
"Just sign the papers." Maria had co prepared. She took out the divorce papers as soon as she saw Sasha leaving.
"Why are you doing this. What did I do to disserve this!"
Maria took out her phone. The evidence spoke for itself.
Marcus' eyes widened in realization, terror, and shock, all at the sa ti. He knew that there was no getting out of it anymore. It was checkmate.
His hands were numb as he took the pen handed to him and signed his own divorce papers.
He hadn't done anything that would warrant sole custody so they would still have joint custody after divorce.
"Well, this ended much better than I had imagined, but you two seem to have forgotten sothing. Or better yet, soone." A sharp and powerful voice ca from behind Maria, even Marcus hadn't noticed that there was soone else present.
"Who are you?" Marcus shouted. His agitated heart could not be cald in such a short amount of ti after everything that had happened that night.
Emilin gave him a glance and then proceeded to ignore his presence.
Emilin took a step to the side exposing little Rose who had been hiding behind her.
Maria's eyebrows shot up when she saw her daughter whom she had left at ho with the foreign lady that she had t previously.
"You should be in bed!"
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