A Divorce

“Clash”

“Get her stuff out.”

“Tell her she has a minute to leave.”

“And clean up after she leaves.”

Josh scolded the butler angrily. Before he left for work, he had ordered him to throw Alexa out of the house because his girlfriend would be coming over for dinner, but he didn't.

Alexa stood upstairs and watched the scene with a painful heart, countless tears rolling down her cheeks.

“What came over him?” She still couldn't comprehend what happened to her once-loving husband. They have been happily married for 3 years, and he suddenly presents her with divorce papers because his first love is back.

“Alexa!!!” Josh scolded, and he hurried upstairs while holding a white A4 document.

"Josh,” she called with a quivering tone. He wanted her out of the house, but where would she go? She had chosen him over her family, and now he was all she had.

“Why haven't you signed this yet?” All he had in his eyes was hatred for her. He had asked her calmly for a divorce, the reason being that he loved Kira so much and since they did not have a child together, it was better they go their separate ways.

“Can’t we fix this?” she had been hoping for the past two months when he asked for the divorce. For two good months, she has been trying to change his mind. She even started using the same deodorant as Kira, thinking that it was her scent that made her succeed in seducing her husband.

“Just leave, and I offered you money, so what else do you want? Take the money and leave already; go back to your low-life family,” he scolded.

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Alexa slapped him hard across the face before pointing a finger at him. “Do you mean the family that warned me against you?” She gritted her teeth, frustrated.

“Do you mean the family who chased me away because I got married to you at eighteen instead of completing college?” She had wasted her youth being married to this man because she loved him so much, and when he proposed, she couldn't say no.

“You told me you were going to be my family; now it turns out I was just your rebound from your first love,” she said, taking a step backward.

“Enough!!!” She pulled her hair, frustrated; she had some dignity left, so it was better to leave with that than to let this man shatter it completely.

Alexa seized the divorce papers from Josh before hurrying downstairs. She picked up the pen and signed her name on it.

Josh stood upstairs with a satisfied look; in his opinion, he wasn't the villain here. Instead, Alexa was the villain in his love story with Kira; they were soulmates.

“To hell with you, Josh, to hell with your money. A day will come when Karma will hook you around the neck for treating me like trash and chasing me out of the mansion I used to call home,” she broke down in tears. The butler, who has been working with her for the past three years since she got married, walked to her.

He crouched to her level and hugged her. He was in his late fifties and had a soft spot for Alexa. She was so innocent and young, but she was getting divorced.

“You will be fine,” he assured her, but she shook her head in denial. She was too ashamed to go back to her family. Everything was going wrong in her life.

Where was she going to start from? One thing she knows is that she will leave this mansion today, but where will she go?

“Leave already, Alexa,” Josh said with an irritating tone, then he walked to his bedroom and banged on the door loudly.

“I already gathered your stuff, ma'am; you should leave,” he said, and Alexa looked at him.

“Ami, where am I going?”

She had nowhere to go—no friends and no family. Josh had said he didn't like her having friends because they might be toxic for their relationship; she had cut off everyone in her life because of him.

“Come with me; I am done with work today,” he said.

Alexa followed the old butler out of the mansion. They took a cab and soon arrived in a low-class community. It was late, but it didn't stop the kids from playing on the streets.

She picked up her bag, and Ami led her to a small house across the street. He pushed the door open, and it was already equipped with couches, a mini kitchen, and a single bedroom.

“Come in, ma'am,” he said, and she walked in before looking around.

“You live here?” She was curious, but the place was dusty; it looked like no one lived there.

“No, this is my niece’s place; she moved out a month ago, and her rent is not yet due, so I have the keys," Ami explained that, luckily, his niece received a job in another town and left, or else how was he going to help the kid?

“You should stay here; the rent will be due in three months. So that's enough time for you to regain yourself and move on.”

Alexa hugged the old man tightly. “What was I going to do without you?”

It was late at night, but Josh didn't feel bad sending her away; she felt grateful to the old man because they weren't even related by blood.

When Ami left, all Alexa did was take off her shoes and sit on the cold, dusty floor, crying her eyes out.

Josh has always been the center of her life; he wasn’t just her husband but her friend and family as well.

“I cursed the day I ever met you,” she said angrily. Her tone was filled with hate for the man she used to love so much.