Regretting Divorce

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Claire was brought towards a bench near her ward to the opposite side of the corridor. She was made to sit, which she ignored, as her chest was burning. 

Getting out of the hold of Cole, and turned to the whitewashed wall Upon the blank wall she could see the scene playing. 

She thought back about how Hunter kissed Zara before the door closed, the burning sensation that was only in her chest began to envelope her entirely. 

“Claire, Claire…” Someone was talking to her 

Although she heard Cole’s name in Zara’s ward, she still hasn’t seen who it was. She only felt hands tugging at her wrists, trying to make her sit. 

“You are pale, Claire Breathe deeply.” 

She went back inside that ward homing that witch psychologically, her eyes brimming with new tears. 

Her body convulsed and the tips of her fingers burned with chill The realization that the scarlet, beautiful flower has bewitched Hunter to hold it made her lips tremble. He was pricked by the flower’s thorns. Its poison was in his body. Alas, rather than killing him, it has consumed him fully. Hunter was consumed. He was consumed. He was… Gone. 

Claire heard footsteps. This time she didn’t care to look up. It’s not like it was Hunter. By now, she had embraced the realization that no matter what happens to her, ye would never come in time. 

“Claire, why are you shaking?” Penelope’s voice flared in her ears 

Raising her eyes Claire tried not to give in to her overpowering emotions. She stared at her face and pressed her lips together. She wanted to talk, share how intensely her heart was aching. Yet all she could do was stare. 

“Did Zara do something! I’m sorry. I was watching you from outside the door. I got a call and had to leave to attend it.” Penelope quickly hugged her. 

She didn’t wait for her response. It was etched in Chaire’s painful expression that she had fallen victim to Zara’s deceit. She was holding her tight and rubbing her back when she heard a cough. 

Claire’s back steeled and her breathing became uneven. Penelope clenched her jaw as the person who coughed was Hunter. The look on his face was staggering. 

He pinned his own wife with a look of contempt and accusation. Also, his tightly set jaw indicated his irritation towards something he deemed Claire had done. 

“Both of you leave. I want to talk to her alone. When Hunter spoke, his voice was raw 

“Yes, guys. Leave. There’s so much that we need to talk about.” Chire shortly said after as she refused to look away from him. 

The blacks of his eyes stared deeper in the icy blues of hers. It was as though the dark sky was casting a smoldering gaze down on the calm ocean moments before a storm’s occurrence, 

Penelope knew it was wise to keep quiet and leave. 

1. e. She didn’t want to talk back to Hunter when he was looking like a satan 

Incarnate. 

“What you did inside is truly horrendous. You will go inside with me and apologize to Zara now.” Hunter gripped her wrist when Penelope and Cole had departed. 

1/3 

Before he pulled her with him, Claire held his wrist in turn as she said in a heavy voice, “Did you give her a ring?” 

Hunter tur 

around and stared at her. It hurt to see that his gaze was deadpan and devoid of emotion. 

Claire suffocated from within, observing that her husband had no emotion on his face. He was holding her hand, and unlike other husbands who glow and grin in excitement of holding their wives, he was looking down at her rather plainly. It was as if she was not his wife but some other woman 

“Come with me now,” 

“First answer my question, Hunter Macintyre. Claire looked stright in his dark eyes. 

She held back sobs. Unfortunately, she failed to keep her tears locked in. They trailed down in streams. 

“Did you give her a ring?” 

“So what if I did?” It hit her where she was already wounded… Her heart. 

Her body felt limp. All the resistance she had developed inside her came tearing apart and falling around her. 

“H–how could you? Even after you had me y–you gave her a ring! Her voice trembled 

Hunter ignored her as the right corner of his mouth twitched. 

“I don’t see any sense why I shouldn’t have given her a ring. It’s not a big deal. 

“It’s not a big deal? So you think it’s not a big deal?” Claire snatched her hand out of his hold. 

She pushed her hands against his chest to shove him. Hunter didn’t budge. She held his collars and seethed in his face while tears poured from her eyes. 

“Hunter MacIntyre, it is a big deal to me because you cannot just give a ring to any woman while I am still with you. You know what it means when a man gives another woman a ring, don’t you?” 

Hunter kept quiet as he didn’t feel the need to correct her. 

He obviously knew what it meant. And he would never do it before they were legally divorced. That’s why he had bought a ring that was the least expensive so it wouldn’t raise doubts or wrong notions…. Talk less about onlookers‘ curiosity. 

The ring was merely a medium to hide a tracker in it for Zara’s safety. It was meant to be used for a purpose beyond the one she was implying to. 

It was useless explaining to her. He deemed Claire to be jealous and held her hand again.” 

“Come with me.” 

“No, I will not.” She used all her strength to put distance between them. 

She wanted to be away from the man with whom she had once wanted to stay closer with 

His hold felt like a furnaced iron rod cuffed around her wrist. She didn’t want to feel it again hence she moved far away against the wall. 

“I will not apologize because I didn’t do anything wrong.” She said between her tears. 

Hunter stared at her coldly and folded his hands, “Carving her face and attacking her like that was not wrong? That’s what you want to say.” 

“I didn’t do that, alright! She did that to herself. She wanted to show me my place. She wanted to show me that… That my 

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husband doesn’t trust me enough and that. That I’m wasting my time. She was sobbing by now. 

“And probably she’s right. It was a whisper, referring to the last sentence. 

Her words made Hunter freeze. Her tears did something to him. Pain lanced through him at the view of her paleness but he didn’t take an initiative to soothe her. 

According to him Zara was wronged. She was a victim of rape and later on, attacked by his jealous wife for not being able to get his enough attention. 

He avoided her tears completely and tried to get a hold of her wrist again. 

“I told you I’m not going to apologize to her. If anything it should be her apologising to me for destroying my wedding” Claire moved away. 

“Do you even know that she has fooled you? Zara wasn’t gang raped, Hunter. It was not a gang rape.” She wiped her tears as she walked towards him to add, “What you have seen as a gang rape was actually a gang bang that she- 

“CLAIRE!” A loud shriek expelled from Hunter’s mouth. 

His hand flew like a vengeful gust against her face, sending her against the wall where she hit the same wounded corner of 

her head. 

Atormented moan tore from her throat before Claire passed out 

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