Chapter 10
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“Emily! Get out here!”
“Come out! Too scared to face me?”
Grandma had just left for groceries.
I walked downstairs leisurely,
“What do you want?”
He looked worse—unshaven, grim.
“You stole my clients, spread rumors—trying to ruin me? I knew it—you're vicious! Marrying you was my biggest mistake!”
I smiled coldly,
“I only took back the resources I brought. What's wrong with that?”
“We were once married—can't we end this peacefully?”
He stared intensely.
“You dare talk about peaceful?”
I felt nothing but disgust,
“What you did postpartum—I'll never forget. Ryan, I'll hate you forever! If you'd agreed to divorce initially, I might've let it go. But you had to drag it out, make it ugly—did you think I'd let you off easy?”
I'd given him a chance for a clean break.
Eyes red, I thought he might hit me.
Instead, he knelt, slapping himself,
“Forgive me! I was wrong! I shouldn't have cheated. Please—ask them to come back. I can't make it without you. I can't go back to that life!”
I looked down at him,
“You think I'd ever forgive you? Ryan, I wish you'd drop dead.”
He stared, shocked.
Just then, Chloe waddled over, desperate.
She glared, afraid we'd reconcile.
“Get up! She's toxic—she always wanted to destroy you!”
Ryan, enraged, shoved her,
“Get away from me!”
She fell, hard.
Screaming, blood pooled under her.
Ryan panicked.
I didn't call for help—just left to find Grandma.
