"Sign, I've brought the divorce papers." Areiza Kensley had just entered the door, When Darren Venzor, her husband gives her the divorce papers. Areiza felt an unbearable pain in her heart. However, she still tried her best to maintain a calm face. Because she didn't want to look weak in front of this man... Areiza quickly took the paper and fished the pen out of her pocket without question, but Darren snatched the paper away. He frowned, "Aren't you going to read the agreement?" Areiza pursed her lips and replied, "There's no need, I know you must have everything ready for me even if I don't need it." Darren nodded. "That's right, this house is yours as well, including your mother's medical bills, which I'll continue to pay in the future, and I'll make sure you live without any burdens." How thoughtful, Areiza thought sarcastically. She grabbed the paper once more and signed it forcefully. Areiza thought that once she signed the divorce papers, she was able to start her new life, without the man Darren Venzor interfering in her life... However, ... Was after the divorce, Areiza and Darren really went on their separate ways or... There is something waiting for them...
Areiza was sitting on the ground, inside her room with her eyes fixed on her laptop. A few days ago, she had sent her medical thesis to a prestigious medical journal for review and she was waiting for a response from them. At that moment, she was feeling very nervous.
She clasped her hands together and muttered slowly... "Please let my thesis get selected... please God... please..."
It has been three years since Areiza came abroad for studies. All these years, Areiza has been working very hard on this thesis.
If her thesis can pass the review and be published successfully, she will be famous in the medical world, and graduate successfully, the most important thing is that she can finally go back to her country.
A life where she stops hoping for the things that were not going to happen...
As Areiza felt that she was going to die from anxiety and nervousness, she received an e-mail from that medical journal. Looking at the e-mail on the screen, she clicked on it with one eye open and one close and read the content...
"Congratulations, Miss Kensley your thesis has passed the review and soon be published in our medical journal."
After she finished reading the e-mail, she was so happy that she almost jumped twice on the spot. She looked at the e-mail again and again.
"My hard work finally gets selected..."
She jumped up and down with excitement, but when she calmed down, she realized that she couldn't find anyone to share her joy with, although she got married, in these three years, she and his husband met only once at the wedding, after that, her husband never called her again.
Before she left the country, her husband told her not to contact him unless it was urgent, and that his assistant would take care of her living expenses abroad.
Areiza knew her marriage to her husband was a done deal, he didn't love her, to be honest, he had a girl he loved before they got married, but his girlfriend gave up on marrying him because she had to follow her dreams of the opera and her husband, the Darren family, needed a wife and she was chosen.
She has to say yes, her mother is sick and needs medical bills, and Darren, who doesn't love her but encourages her to follow her dreams, comes to America to study medicine.
Areiza was sitting at her computer desk when suddenly her phone rang again. She looked at the caller ID on her phone and her eyes filled with shock and surprise...
It was a call from Darren. In their three years of marriage, it was the first time, that Darren had taken the initiative to call her. Looking at the caller ID on her phone, Areiza can't be able to describe the emotions in her heart.
She was feeling happy and excited. It was like she had been walking in the darkness for a long time and suddenly she saw a ray of light...
Areiza picked up the call and said slowly, "Hello."
"Have you received the e-mail?" On the other end of the phone, Darren's cold voice came into her ears. He did not even greet her and went straight to the point.
Did he know about my thesis and medical journal? Did he have paid attention to my progress secretly all these years? Did my efforts over these years didn't go in vain? He also cared about me, right? Even if it was only a bit... he cared about me. Areiza thought.
Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Areiza's face, and she was about to reply when her eyes fell on another e-mail in her inbox.
Areiza saw that it was an e-mail from Darren's lawyer and clicked on it. As soon as she did, the two-word "Divorce Agreement" came in front of her eyes...
Seeing these words, the happy smile on her face was replaced by a mocking smile.
Areiza Kensley, even after three years of pain, you still didn't realize that you had no place in his heart. He did not care about you. How long are you going to be a fool like this? She scolded herself in her mind.
However, no matter how much she scolds herself, she still can't be able to stop the unbearable pain in her heart...
How big a fool you are Areiza? How can you even think that he would care about anything related to you? You have no importance in his life. She mocked herself in her heart.
"Areiza, after you read the agreement, I want you to come back as soon as possible so that we can get divorced. Hallie is not in good health, and I want to fulfill her wish..."
Hallie, the girl who abandoned him and came back again? Took over his whole heart again.
Hearing his words, Areiza clenched her fist and tried her best to control her emotions. However, her heart was in so much pain, as if someone stabbing a knife in her heart.
She knows that he did not love her and sooner or later this will happen... But she hadn't expected that the first time they'd spoken in three years would be about the divorce.
Areiza saw no reason to refuse, and she was in no position to do so, as she spoke calmly,
"Fine. I'll be back as soon as I can."
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River City International Airport...
As soon as Areiza got off the plane and was about to take a taxi to their house in the country she looked up and saw the picture of her husband proposing to Hallie on the big airport screen.
Arreaza's grip on the car door tightened, She hadn't even signed the contract yet and Darren couldn't wait to propose to another woman and put it up in the airport, he knew she would see it but he didn't care about her heart.
Areiza felt her heart bleed, her marriage to Darren was only known to a few family members, so the public didn't know that the hero was married.
Areiza sat in her car, for three years now she had been expecting Darren to turn his heart to her, knowing that Darren's family didn't accept Hallie either, she thought she still had a chance.
But reality pierced her heart like a sharp arrow, she couldn't afford to have illusions anymore, she wouldn't allow herself to be trapped like a fool in her woven dreams, back to reality, if she got away from Darren then all she had to do was work hard to earn money and then continue to pay for her mother's medical bills.
The car chugged along for half an hour before finally arriving at a building she called home, She had only slept in it for one day on her wedding night and the next day she was out of the country, she was a stranger to the place. Still, it was neat as if it had never been inhabited before, it seemed Darren hadn't lived here either and he hadn't missed her for a second.
He didn't even want to see the only thing that had to do with her.
Areiza carried her suitcase, She didn't expect to see Darren today, she just wanted to get a good night's sleep and meet Darren tomorrow to sign the divorce papers.
Areiza was about to go upstairs when she saw the headlights of a car in front of the villa, her heart skipped a nervous beat, was Darren back?
Before she could react the door to the room was pushed open from outside and a tall figure walked in, it was Darren, his black shirt framed his majestic body, and the perfect creases on his suit pants showed how sharp he was as a person, his face was even more three dimensional under the glistening light, it was perfect like a heavenly god, as soon as he walked in even the morning was hidden by his radiance.
Areiza felt her heartbeat faster, but she still succumbed to his charisma, Time hadn't diminished it, but rather added a touch of mature steadiness to him.
Areiza stood still, forgetting to speak until Darren's icy voice rang out. "Sign, I've brought the divorce papers."
Areiza felt as if ice water had been poured on her when she saw the paper documents handed to her, she could not wait for the floor to suddenly crack open so she could crawl underneath and cover her shame.
Areiza quickly took the paper and fished the pen out of her pocket without question, but Darren snatched the paper away.
He frowned, "Aren't you going to read the agreement?"
Areiza pursed her lips and replied, "There's no need, I know you must have everything ready for me even if I don't need it."
Darren nodded. "That's right, this house is yours as well, including some other apartments and properties, and I'll make sure you live without any burdens."
How thoughtful, Areiza thought sarcastically, but he had no idea that thoughtless tenderness hurt the most, and she didn't allow herself to sink any lower as she grabbed the paper once more and signed it forcefully.
"Anything else?" Areiza asked suspiciously as she looked at Darren, who was still standing in the living room without leaving, for she knew that Darren didn't live there.
"Tomorrow, you have to meet Hallie," Darren said with a blank face.
"Why do I have to?" Areiza didn't understand his request.
"Hallie is a nice girl and her condition won't allow her to be hurt anymore, so you have to let Hallie know that you were the one who initiated the divorce with me."
Areiza felt like a dead body in a game, but Darren was still whipping her mercilessly as if he didn't want to hurt her.
Areiza felt like she didn't have the strength to stand in front of Darren anymore, she had to get away from him as soon as possible, she closed her eyes and agreed to Darren's request.
"Please don't worry, I won't let you down tomorrow." With that, Areiza went upstairs.
Renea was trying the wedding dress, when suddenly the man rushed in the dressing room and held her neck tightly... “Bitch! Are you still trying to pretend innocent!” Jasper said as he tightened his grip on her neck and choked her harder. Then he used his other hand and took out the phone from his suit pocket and played the video of two people having sex in front of Renea… However, what was even more shocking, was that the woman in the video was, Renea Morris, however, the man in the video was not Jasper. Renea struggled to take a phone away from Jasper’s hand and tried to explain, “Jasper, it was not what you think… I… I can…” Jasper looked at Renea with his eyes full of disgust, as he said, “Let’s call of the wedding. I can’t marry a woman like you.” After saying that Jasper walked out of the shop Renea chase after Jasper... But then she sees Jasper passionately kissing her sister Kailey. And she hears everything, that her sleeping with strange men was all a plan of the vipers of the last two days, and that their goal was to get out of this stupid marriage. Even her adopted parents were also involved in this matter... They all do this with her because of the inheritance left by her grandfather... Renea heart was filled with anger and she wanted to expose their true colors to the public... However before she could do anything, Kailey had pushed her in front of the car and she got killed... However, when Renea open her eyes, she found herself sitting in the car with Kailey... She realized that she was reborn and went at the time when everything started... Renea looked at the people who had hurt her in her previous life and her lips curled up in a cold smile... She was back... However, this time... she was back for revenge...
"Miss Brown, I am the butler here at your service," the butler replied. "My master wants to buy the baby in your belly." "What?!" Does that mean the abortion didn't take place? Did they kidnap her from the operating table just to buy the baby? But why her? "You..." Alice was about to ask a question, but the man in front of her calmly continued, as if he had expected her question, "You're pregnant with his child, and he needs a child. That's all I can tell you." Alice was forced to sign a surrogacy contract and eight months later gave birth to two healthy babies. Fortunately, the man was unaware of her daughter's existence. It wasn't until five years later that fate brought them together again...
Stella Richard married Rene Kingston in the place of her sister Sophia due to some reasons. But from the beginning, she knows that her marriage was just a time-limit contract and once the time was up she had to go. For RK, this marriage was just a burden but for her, it was a gift from God. Because RK was the man who she had loved all her Youth... So, in the meantime of her marriage, Stella did her best so that this marriage may work out. But on the day she found she was pregnant, her husband gives her the divorce paper and said... "I don't want this child. Don't forget to abort." These words come out of his mouth, like a bomb for Stella, and changed her life... She signed her name on the divorce paper and left the house... Because she doesn't want to be with such a cold-hearted man... Five years later... RK bought the company In which Stella worked. But Stella did her best not to have anything to do with him... Because she had a child and she didn't want him to find out about him... But one day When Stella picked up her son from school he saw her... RK, "How dare you had a child with another man?" Stella, "I don't think it has anything to do with you." RK was about to say more when his gaze fell on the child beside her... His face looked as same as when he was young...
There was only one man in Raegan's heart, and it was Mitchel. In the second year of her marriage to him, she got pregnant. Raegan's joy knew no bounds. But before she could break the news to her husband, he served her divorce papers because he wanted to marry his first love. After an accident, Raegan lay in the pool of her own blood and called out to Mitchel for help. Unfortunately, he left with his first love in his arms. Raegan escaped death by the whiskers. Afterward, she decided to get her life back on track. Her name was everywhere years later. Mitchel became very uncomfortable. For some reason, he began to miss her. His heart ached when he saw her all smiles with another man. He crashed her wedding and fell to his knees while she was at the altar. With bloodshot eyes, he queried, "I thought you said your love for me is unbreakable? How come you are getting married to someone else? Come back to me!"
Loraine was a dutiful wife to Marco since they got married three years ago. However, he treated her like trash. Nothing she did softened his heart. One day, Loraine got fed up with it all. She asked him for a divorce and left him to enjoy with his mistress. The elites looked at her like she was deranged. "Are you out of your mind? Why are you so willing to divorce him?" "It's because I need to return home to get a billion-dollar fortune. Besides, I don't love him anymore," Loraine replied with a smile. They all laughed at her. Some believed that the divorce affected her mentally. It wasn't until the next day that they realized she wasn't fibbing. A woman was suddenly declared the world's youngest female billionaire. It turned out to be Loraine! Marco was shocked to the bone. When he met his ex-wife again, she was a changed person. A group of handsome young men surrounded her. She was smiling at them all. The sight made Marco's heart ache severely. Putting his pride aside, he tried to win her back. "Hello, love. I see that you are a billionaire now. You shouldn't be with suckers who just want your money. How about you come back to me? I'm a billionaire too. Together, we can build a strong empire. What do you say?" Loraine squinted at her ex-husband with her lips curled in disgust.
"Ms. Crawford, it’s time for you to divorce Mr. Larsen and come home. You're the only heiress the Master's waiting for.” ~•~ For the sake of love, Amara accepted the arranged marriage with Tobias William Larsen. She did everything to gain her husband’s heart but when his old love returned, she realized that all her effort was all for naught. Tobias demanded a divorce on the night of their wedding anniversary, even at the price of threatening her. Heartbroken, she finally dropped all her illusions about him and returned home to be the heiress. The next time she met Tobias, they were no longer couples but opponents. "Mr. Larsen, should I remind you again? We've divorced." "Amara, that's the stupidest mistake I've ever made. Please come back to me."
Janet was adopted when she was a kid -- a dream come true for orphans. However, her life was anything but happy. Her adoptive mother taunted and bullied her all her life. Janet got the love and affection of a parent from the old maid who raised her. Unfortunately, the old woman fell ill, and Janet had to marry a worthless man in place of her parents' biological daughter to meet the maid's medical expenses. Could this be a Cinderella's tale? But the man was far from a prince, except for his handsome appearance. Ethan was the illegitimate son of a wealthy family who lived a reckless life and barely made ends meet. He got married to fulfill his mother's last wish. However, on his wedding night, he had an inkling that his wife was different from what he had heard about her. Fate had united the two people with deep secrets. Was Ethan truly the man we thought he was? Surprisingly, he bore an uncanny resemblance to the impenetrable wealthiest man in the city. Would he find out that Janet married him in place of her sister? Would their marriage be a romantic tale or an utter disaster? Read on to unravel Janet and Ethan's journey.
Everyone was shocked to the bones when the news of Rupert Benton's engagement broke out. It was surprising because the lucky girl was said to be a plain Jane, who grew up in the countryside and had nothing to her name. One evening, she showed up at a banquet, stunning everyone present. "Wow, she's so beautiful!" All the men drooled, and the women got so jealous. What they didn't know was that this so-called country girl was actually an heiress to a billion-dollar empire. It wasn't long before her secrets came to light one after the other. The elites couldn't stop talking about her. "Holy smokes! So, her father is the richest man in the world?" "She's also that excellent, but mysterious designer who many people adore! Who would have guessed?" Nonetheless, people thought that Rupert didn't love her. But they were in for another surprise. Rupert released a statement, silencing all the naysayers. "I'm very much in love with my beautiful fiancee. We will be getting married soon." Two questions were on everyone's minds: "Why did she hide her identity? And why was Rupert in love with her all of a sudden?"
When they were kids, Derek saved Norah's life. Years later, after Derek ended up in a vegetative state from a car crash, Norah married him without a second thought and even used her medical knowledge to heal him. For two years, Norah was devoted, seeking his affection and looking to settle her life-saving debt. But when Derek's first love returned, Norah, faced with divorce, didn't hesitate to sign. Despite being labeled as forsaken, few knew of her true talents. She was a race car driver, a famed designer, a genius hacker, and a renowned doctor. Regretting his decision, Derek begged for her forgiveness. Just then, a charming CEO intervened, embracing Norah and declaring, "Back off! She's my wife!" Taken aback, Norah blurted out, "What did you say?"