Chapter 25
Katerina:
1 sat inside the car, waiting to arrive to the mansion as I glared out the window.
Having called my lawyer carlier, she asked me to stay put and to wait for further messages. She would be the one to report to the cops.
The game I was playing right now was a dangerous one. I knew that for fact, but I was left with no choice. I had to do it to ensure that I got out of this safely, and it wasn’t only due to Nikolay and I getting a divorce. Sure, this part was most likely to happen eventually if this went on, but I had to ensure my safety when it came to dealing with that woman.
She was one with no remorse, and I didn’t have to deal with her wrath to realize it. I already knew since I saw her and since she slapped me that I would be handling more than I, or any person, could take, and that was something that not only frightened me, but also made me want to curl up and hide. The woman knew how to use my own weakness against me, and that wasn’t something that I missed.
“Are you still not going to tell me what happened for you to change your mind?” Nikolay asked, breaking my train of thoughts. “Whatever it is, if you need me to help out, I can. But if you are going to stay this quiet, then there would be no way for me to neither help or understand the mess that we were dealing with. Big or small, I had to find out about it.”
“Why does it matter that you do?” I asked, shaking my head in question. “Why do you even care, especially considering the fact that you have been blaming me for everything that has been going wrong in the past week. Why do you give a damn…?”
“Look, I am genuinely trying to be nice, there is no need for you to act like a bitch because something is bothering you. I understand that you could
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be in pain or under pressure, but whatever it is, I can’t help out unless you voice it out for me. I wouldn’t be able to read it on my own.” He said, and 1 shook my head at him. How was I to tell him that his mother threatened me? How was I to even face him with the fact that I was under the watch of
the woman’s men?
“Can I ask you something?” I asked, choosing to play my way around this.
“What?” Nikolay asked, frowning in confusion. “I don’t understand?”
“You have been asking me questions since we got inside this car. Can I be the one to ask the question this time? I don’t think that there’s anything hard about that?” I asked, shaking my head at the man who nodded. “On our wedding night, was she there?”
“Excuse me?” Nikolay asked, his tone hardening as his grip tightened. around the wheel.
“On the night of our wedding, was Anastasia in your bedroom?” I asked, glaring at the window, no longer able to look at him. The vision of the love bite flashed in my head as I blinked, and I couldn’t help but feel like I was indeed a fool. The man was right in front of me, and that meant that the woman left the house while we were inside, while I, his wife, was inside. and instead of being the one to spend the night with him, SHE was.
“Yes.” He said, not bothering to sugarcoat it. My chest ached and I felt like my breath got caught in my throat. The fact that he was doing such a thing was one thing that I couldn’t find myself accepting. “She was in my room, and I was in her arms the next morning. What does that change in anything right now?”
I stayed quiet, wondering how a man could be as selfish as he was being. Had it been me who had a man in her room, I would have been through hell, and the number of explanations that I would have been forced to make were going to be countless. Not only that, but I was going to be dealing with too much for one woman to handle, and yet, it seemed like
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everyone expected me to accept what they didn’t upon themselves, and one of them was even Nikolay. The man literally saw it normal that I was to accept the fact that he was cheating on me, and that was something that I could no longer stand. It hurt, and as a woman, I couldn’t find myself accepting it. Marriage deal or not, I believed that I deserved better than this treatment.
“It won’t, there is nothing between us to change to begin with.” I said, keeping a monotonous tone. He glared at the window as he tightened his grip around the steering wheel before stopping at one of the parking lots.
“What are you trying to do, Katerina? Because fucking hell is it starting to annoy me, and I do not care what you feel about this. You will either speak or this is going to go places that you do not want to approach.” He threatened, and taking a deep breath, I shook my head as tears formed in
my eyes.
“I am sick and tired of all your threats, okay? I am just tired of them, and you do not seem to see it. Not you, not your mum, not your father who doesn’t even give a damn that his son has cheated on his wife. I am sick and tired of trying to please you…”
“Then don’t.” He said, stopping me.
I frowned in confusion, trying to process what the man said, only for him. to repeat it again. This time, he chose to slow down as he spoke, his eyes glaring daggers at me as his words left his mouth.
“Do not try to please me, do not try to satisfy me, and do not try to approach me. I don’t give a damn what you do to begin with, and I don’t know what has made you think that I did. But either way, whatever it is, I don’t care nor do I want to think of caring about.” He said, looking me in the eye as he spoke. “If you think that you are offering me anything, then take it away. Whether it is your time, your life, or even your marriage, go on and fucking file the divorce that you want and just get the fuck out of my life. But I do not want you to think that I want you to give me
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something that you are not.”
“I am trying, and yet, you just…”
“Has it ever occurred to you that I may not want you around?” He asked, stopping me, taking me off guard. I had to admit, his words not only caught me off guard, but they also hit me like a dagger. “If I am married to you, then I too am forced into this marriage. But you are selfish enough to think that everything should revolve around you. Did you consider for a second that I wanted to be with the woman that I love? No…”
“No? I wanted to help you two…”
“Did you really?” He asked, glaring at me. My heart ached as he asked, and raising an eyebrow, he waited for my response. “Did you really want to help the two of us be together?”
“Think of my question carefully, Katerina. Because I know for fact that if you want someone to be with another person, then your reaction does not make sense.” He said before starting the car again. “I’ll drop you home then I am going out. If anyone asks, I needed to get some air…”
