hapter 0038
Chapter 0038
“With all due respect sir, she is Leslie Winston, my wife and I do no-”
“Then who is the woman beside you, Mr Winston?” He cuts me off and he stares at me knowingly while I struggle to find the right answer to his question. Deep down, I can tell he already knows the answer and I feel the tingles of what seems like humiliation.
“Miss Jackson, please.” He calls and Leslie nods, turning to my uncle who hands her two different documents from a bag. She stretches them towards me and I hesitate, taking in the vacant look in her eyes. 1
“Take the papers, Mr Winston,” Chairman Hanson urges and dreadfully do as he says, staring down at the papers in my hands. I clutch the papers tightly as I read the content, especially the one with ‘Divorce Agreement‘ boldly written on it.
I look back up for answers, “What.what the hell is this? What the hell do you think you are doing?”
“That, Mr Winston, is another divorce I prepared since you refused to sign the previous one.” I can’t tell what makes my heart clench at that moment; Leslie serving me divorce papers in front of a fucking crowd or her calling me by my last name like this is some sort of a business deal.
Blood roars in my ears.
“I already told you, Leslie, I will not sign the goddamned papers!”
“Oh but you should, Mr Winston. On your other hand is a business partnership agreement already signed by me. It is an agreement that says your fashion products can be displayed at the open spot at my shopping mall. It’s an agreement you have been trying to make for years and now is your chance.” The ‘Chairman answers.
I am quick to understand what this is. A sort of twisted blackmail. I scoff.
“You want me to give up my marriage to Leslie in exchange for this?” I raise the paper, nose flaring. I’ve never felt this insulted in my entire life. And in front of an entire crowd too, “What the hell do you take me for?” I can barely keep my voice down.
“You should refrain from making yourself look stupid, Klan,” My uncle speaks this time, glaring in my direction, “You stand beside a mistress and talk about your marriage like you didn’t already soil it.”
“Stay out of
of it you freaking wife–snatcher.” I snarl at him, already losing the last shred of respect for him.
The chairman intervenes while Leslie looks at me with so much disdain it makes me want to fall at her feet to beg for mercy.
“Keep that up Mr Winston and I will be forced to take this to court and I promise you, I will not stop until I have destroyed you” He threatens in a serious tone and continues, “I am only doing this for the sake of Leslie. I would rather have this settled in court but she doesn’t even want a dime of your wealth as alimony so it will do you a word of good to sign those papers quietly so you can both go your separate ways.
Murmurs rise from the crowd who are watching us like their favorite weekend drama. I am fucking sick to the stomach at the way I am comered by the situation. For the very first time in my life, I feel helpless and the feeling chokes me into silence as I grip the papers so hard I feel them tear slightly at the sides.
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“What is your call, Mr Winston? Do not waste my time, my guests await.”
The business man in me screams at me that I cannot afford to take this to court. I cannot afford to go against the Hanson group else I would lose everything. The normal man in me, the one who hasn’t gotten over the loss of his wife whom he always thought he cared nothing about, stares at Leslie and my heart falls. Falls and fucking shatters.
I smell defeat. I taste it. I accept it.
I grab the pen in my I sign both papers and hand them
Ult pocket and try to keep my hands steady a
over.
“Good choice, Mr Winston. Enjoy the rest of the night.”
Chairman Hanson says and just like that rolls away with Leslie and my uncle in tow.Leslie doesn’t even flinch, doesn’t even turn back to look at me and that is too much of a fatal blow for me to keep standing
here.
I turn towards the entrance of the plaza and slowly walk out, head bowed in humiliation.
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