Bye, My Irresistible Love

Scarlett's POV:

I lay weakly in Charles's arms, barely breathing and surrounded by despair.

He gently laid me on the bed and held my hand.

"I'll arrange another physical therapy session for you later. Take a rest first."

For a moment, I felt like my heart was being pierced by a knife. I used to love the man in front of me with all my heart. But now, all I wanted was to get away from him as far as I could.

"I slept with William," I said out of nowhere.

It was a lie. After years of entanglement with Charles, I knew very well how to break his heart.

To my surprise, he did not go hysterical. Rather, he just calmly stared at me with his deep, emotionless eyes

"Didn't you hear what I said? I had sex with William!" I repeated with more conviction

When I spoke, my chin was raised, and I looked at him with defiance.

"Scarlett, don't lie to me," Charles warned through gritted teeth.

We were staring into each other's eyes when, suddenly, a sharp pain shot across my arm. He had tightened his grip on my wrist, and I froze because of the pain.

"There's no point in hiding the truth anymore. The kids may be yours, but I indeed slept with William."

I endured the pain and continued to rub salt into his wound.

"Why do you have to do this?" Charles asked coldly.

"Do you want to hear more about it?" I looked into his eyes with a smirk and made a story up. "It was raining heavily that night. I went to his room—"

"Enough!" Charles roared. His veins stood out on his forehead, and he clenched my shoulder tightly in rage.

"I loathed you to the core. Just so you know, I slept with William because that was the fastest and the most direct way to take revenge on you."

My mouth automatically uttered those words to spite him. I could not even feel pain in my shoulder at all.

"Do you hate me that much? To think, you're even willing to use your body as a tool for revenge. I don't believe you."

otherwise. Pain and disappointment were written all over his face. He looked as though he was on

I don't know if you're too naive or just stupid. Can't you see that

control

believe you just

the pit of my stomach. "What did you just say? Do you really believe that we can just live together and pretend to be a happy couple for

at the corners of my

Even if you

Ever so

out of your

angry because of what I had said, he put

marriage, as they know it, is just a show?" Why don't you explain to them by then that you cheated on me and gave

what he thought were facts. How could I show any

tell James that you remained indifferent when he had just died miserably in front of you? Or

"Scarlett!"

he held my hands above my

Killing her was easy, but what was the point of that? Her death wouldn't bring James back to us. And at that very moment, you were in my

choked with sobs. He then eventually released his

son? Haven't you seen how much I

tears streaming down my face, I lay on the bed

honesty, I knew that he loved James. But the thing was, he was entangled with the woman who had

our relationship go to waste just because

ear to his plea and murmured, "Let me

about who was right and who was wrong anymore. All I wanted right now

won't. I will also make sure that you won't leave my side," Charles

sneer, I turned to look at him and

seemed that death was the

kids grow up? And when they do, do you want them to know that their mother had a

went blank all of a

then on, I'm afraid that they won't believe in love anymore. Do you want them to end up alone and lonely? I don't

"You... You're impossible!"

Achilles' heel. My children were the only ones I could never let go of. How

me out for the rest of our lives. If being good means that I'll have to let you leave and let our children grow up in a broken family, then I would rather be

your high horse. You're

the right thing for our children.

a trace of pity. However, the only thing I saw was