Regretting Divorce

Zara’s 

An avalanche of disbelief plunged within me. My fingers twitched as I kept myself from crumpling the property transfer papers in my hold. They didn’t seem real. They couldn’t be. Hunter cannot just get rid of me like this. 

“H–Hunter, you want to chase me away?” I feigned a hurtful voice, keeping my bone several octaves low. 

“I just don’t want to chase away the feelings increasing in my chest day by day. And they’re not for you,” Hunter said with a straight face. 

nses were torrentially struck by his unexpected move. 

My lips quivered. I wanted to say something but the shock was intense, My senses were 

As I stared at the papers, my own words I smugly shared with Enzo not ten minutes ago resounded in my own ears. 

1 was born to be a queen. Hunter will make me one for he is the king of this country.” 

All the risks I took and crimes I committed came flashing in front of my eyes 

From the murder of my husband who went bankrupt because of me to the fake rape I caused to myself. I destroyed Claire’s life and became the reason behind her miscarriage. 

I didn’t do this all just for nothing 

I did it to see a crown shining on my head. A crown made of pure gold and exorbitant stones. Hunter can’t just come out of the blue with new found feelings for a wife he treated like trash in his life. He can’t just fall in love with her! 

My insides curled as I felt madness rising inside me. All the dreams 1 weaved over the days after killing my husband collected in my head like a spinning tornado. I can see them drowning into darkness. 

I closed my eyes and held onto them. My dreams won’t spill into darkness, Claire can’t have my crown. I won’t let her snatch it away from me There’s no way I’d let Hunter place my crown on his ex–wife’s head. 

I will also kill Claire if that’s what it’d take to clear my path. 

Reopening my eyes, I let a tear go down my cheek. It was my anger reflecting in the form of tears. 

Hunter noticed them and favored me with a look of apology. He came forward to hold my hand. I pulled them away and offered him a trembling smile. 

“Finally you are acknowledging your love for Claire.” I said in order to show that I appreciated him. 

“I told you right that you love her. Claire is a gem. You should have never divorced her in the first place” I pretended to be happy for him while on the inside I hollered like a woman possessed. 

Only I know what was going on inside me. My body was hot like I was hurled in tire and my eyes were stinging with tears of jealousy and contempt 

“You’re not angry?” Hunter asked me in a voice laced with surprise. 

“Why would I be angry? I knew from the beginning that you were in love with her. You just needed someone to help you realize it.” I winked at him, keeping an innocent facade. I am happy that I became that person.” 

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Jesus Christ! Hunter sat on his haunches in front of me. 

He took my hands and kissed the back of them to show his excitement and relief. His happiness was visible on his face and in his eyes. 

While he was basking in delight, my stomach convulsed with fury. Somehow I kept my act together. Hunter didn’t have to know what he was doing 

Not that it was going to matter because his wish wasn’t going to be fulfilled. He was never going to be able to win Claire over again. I’ll make sure of that. Hence, I played along. 

“Don’t tell me you got all these to compensate me because you thought you leaving me for Claire would break my heart?” 

“Don’t be mad but that’s what I really thought Hunter sat up next to me, my hands still in his. 

I mentally seethed seeing him look so happy. Hunter was known for being impassive. Someone in his family could die the worst death and he would not move a facial muscle. But look at the man now! Just look at the glow on his handsome face. 

Only because I said I was glad he was going back to his wife, he was cracking out of his impassive nature as though he found heaven on earth. 

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I smiled to share what happened, keeping a huge rock on my heart, I removed my hand from under his and put it upon his own. 

“I can never be inad, Hunter. You deserve every bit of happiness. And if Claire is your source of happiness then go have her. Make her yours again” 

“You are not for this mean world. Zara. The fact that I am giving up on you for my ex–wife and you’re supporting me shows how selfless you are.” I forced my lips to keep smiling. 

He was trying to make me feel better with those words. But no butter coating was going to heal the wounds he opened on my heart. He was fucking deciding to let me go for an undeserving bitch who couldn’t even save her marriage. 

“If I had a twin brother or just a brother, I would have seriously married you to him. Perhaps there’s a better man waiting for you. He’s praying harder to keep you safe for himself 

“Maybe it was supposed to be you. My better man. But anyway, I am happy for you and Claire,” 

“Whoever marries you will be a lucky guy? 

1 lowered my eyes and tried to be shy. Lucky? My foot I don’t want to make any bastard lucky. I want to be the lucky one to enjoy your wealth and good looks, Hunter Macintyre. 

“Take these with you, Hunter. I can’t keep it I placed the stack of papers in his lap. 

As much as my greed screamed as me to take them all, I won’t settle for anything lesser. I don’t need a freaking penthouse to grow old into. 

That beautiful mansion he had basically built for me and moved into after his marriage with Claire is what I want. I want to be the queen of the picturesque mansion. I want to sit in the manicured lawn across from the glorious building and sip my tea while admiring the sun. 

My dream will become my reality. So there’s no way I am settling for crumbs when I can have the full loaf of bread. 

“I will leave tonight if you want. But I will not accept your money and property. I said in the most helpless way possible. 

“I may be a troubled widow but I am not a leech, Hunter. I will never suck on you to provide for me. I’ll find a job at a flower’s shop or at a mall as a goods loader. Although my image is tarnished as a homewrecker, I think I can survive if I give my hundred percent to it.” 

I pretended to be in a thought and added, “I clean floors well. Maybe I can be hired as a janitor. I can also wash clothes at houses if l- 

You are not doing any of those.” Hunter said with disapproval. 

I looked up at him with a frown. 

“Why are you still dining here, Hunter? Go and look for ways to get Claire’s attention. Don’t forget you have a competition now.” 

His eyes blazed in irritation. Hunter seethed and said deep from his chest, “There’s only one man in Claire’s heart. That’s me. I will never have a competition 

I whistled to tease him and tried to deviate him off my topic so that he would think more and more about me. 

ou brainstorm!” 

“Okay, I get it. You don’t have a competition. But you do need a friend to help you! 

“Spending long hours at work and meetings has made you boring and displeasing. Maybe you should learn how to be expressive and smile more often to impress Claire. Remember, she doesn’t want an expressionless and cold hearted husband. She needs an expressive husband who will not hesitate to sing songs to her to show his love” 

“I know what I have to do to get my wife back. But you, you are not going anywhere. I will hunt you down again and lock you up in this penthouse. Zara 

“But- 

“Shush!” He put a finger on my lips, making me feign a gasp as if it hitched my breaths. Ccontent © exclusive by Nô/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.

Hunter pulled his hand back and shifted on the couch. Then his obstinate eyes came up to my face again. 

“You are my responsibility, Zara. I can’t let you out in the world. Your in–laws will harm you if you leave without my protection.” 

“But I have no right to enjoy your protection either.” 

He seemed to have taken aback. Hunter tried to explain to me how we were good friends now and that Claire and I could find best friends in each other 

“You bothy are alike, Zara. You both can’t see others suffering. Claire will like your company. It’s just that, she needs some time. Once we have reconciled, I’ll introduce you two again. Maybe then you can come back to the capital city again and live in this penthouse” 

Oh, now I get it. This is why he wants to give me the penthouse so I can come back again and live in it 

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840 PM. 

But I am not leaving talk less of coming back again. 

And what’s that about? Me and Claire being alike and becoming friends? 

I cracked up internally. Claire and me being alike? That’s the funniest joke of the century. 

While I am the devil that ran away from the depths of hell fire, Claire is an angel. Not to mention the only thing I want her to be is a rotting corpse. I can bet her thought is no different. 

I raised my face to show my tears to Hunter. He was frozen because I had stopped crying earlier. These new tears intended to show that I was internally hurt from his decision. 

“I will wait for that time when Claire will want to meet me again. There’s so much I want her to know about me. So many painful incidents I want to share with someone and feel lighter.” 

“But please, don’t hurt me by giving these to me. I don’t need your money and property, Hunter. The only reason I was with you was because of love. If I can’t get your love, I won’t accept this either. They don’t belong with me, I can do well without these, Don’t worry about me, Hunter” 

“Zara,” Hunter came closer. “You’re making me feel like a bad person.” 

Hunter took about an hour to fool me into believing that it was a token of love from him. An act of showing his appreciation for being a nice person. I also played along, acting like I got his point. 

An hour later when he left, I waited until he was gone. From the window I saw him sitting in his car and leaving. I came back to the living room to find Enzo studying the papers. 

Snatching them away from him, I tore them in the smallest pieces I could. I cursed Hunter and that bitch Claire too. 

“You wanted to be a queen, right? Looks like he doesn’t even want to keep you plopped down on the couch and gaped at me. 

you as a concubine.” Enzo mocked me with a resonating laughter as he