Bye, My Irresistible Love

Charles's POV: 

I called it.

Whenever I set foot in our family's mansion, I got unresolved issues thrown at my face and then I ended up leaving in the worst of moods.

There had been no single instance where I had left with a smile.

I sat on the edge of Rita's bed and recalled what happened just now.I felt so upset that I considered smashing something.

A few moments later, my phone beeped.It was a message from Scarlett.

"I've got our marriage certificate."

I had to read the message thrice to make sure that I was not imagining it.It was the most offensive text message I had ever received to date.I clicked on the photo that followed the message.

It was taken on the day of Scarlett and I's wedding.

 In the photo, we were standing very close to each other.

While Scarlett had on one of those cute, squinty smiles that she put on whenever she was delighted about something, I was frowning like a boy who had been dragged into some activity that he did not want to do.

She must be very happy that day when she married me.

I gently ran my thumb over her face in the photo and found myself falling in a vortex of mixed feelings.

How could a cheerful little daisy like Scarlett suddenly turn into a thorny rose?  I was not prepared to see her so determined to get out of my life.

"Did you quarrel with your family again?"

Sensing the negative energy with which I must be bombarding her, Rita opened her eyes and spoke in a weak voice.

"Yes," I replied.

"I'm sorry.It's all my fault.I'm the reason you're always fighting with your family.If it weren't for me, you'd be at peace with them.I'm a burden to you." Rita covered her face with her hands and started sobbing.

"No.Of course it's not your fault.Don't think too much.It's just that Scarlett asked Grandpa for our marriage certificate earlier." I put away my phone and held her hand in mine.

"Did she get it then?" Her eyes instantly litup.

"Yes," I answered.

But the happy and excited look on Rita's face did not make me feel good at all.

It only reminded me of the unshakable resolve in Scarlett's eyes when she asked my grandfather for our marriage certificate.

At that moment, I realized how she would do anything to break away from me.

I had two women in my life.

One of them yearned to divorce me while the other was desperate to marry me.

But what about me? What did I want? I suddenly came to the horrible realization that I had no idea what I wanted.

Everyone else seemed to be sure of their choices while I mindlessly drifted in a sea of mine.

But I understood that I was at that point where whatever choice I made would not serve my own agenda.

promised Rita that I would marry

I could do for her, to fulfill her dying wish and put a perfect ending to her short life. However, it was

for a ride.I drove my white Maybach like a drunk, heartbroken teenager

front of the villa where Scarlett lived.I rolled down my window and stared at

asleep with a satisfied smile

have sent me a

was only a matter of time before she could

I lit up a cigarette and

left to help me calm

Scarlett's POV: 

that morning, so instead of rushing to the company, I decided I would go to the nearby breakfast place from the villa and grab a

extra cheery because I had finally gotten our marriage

little more time and this would all be

could go far, a familiar white Maybach caught my

are you

check on Charles and noticed the pile of

cigarette butts, I had guessed

looked at him

wearing the clothes he wore yesterday,and the stubble on his face and his bloodshot eyes

here.Those cigarette butts

 "Okay."

excited to divorce me that he camped out in his car

before we go

let me eat before

looked up at me and

a while.He did not really answer my question, so I had no idea if we were getting

and just got in the

we passed by the breakfast place, I caught a whiff of the delicious food they served

and saw the owner handing

guessed there was

always buy breakfast at that place?" Charles

"Yes."

don’t you just

"I don't know how."

then an adopted daughter of

up in a sheltered household where everything

not a priority to

not say anything more after that and just focused on

to the

took me

now.Why are we at your place?" I swept my eyes

so fancy that ordinary people could not afford even

some breakfast

the car and went to open my door for

watched his

air today, and once again,

he was just feeling as on a

dump me today and marry the woman of

breakfast your way of buttering me up before divorcing me?" I

"Think whatever you want,"

replied, a shadow passing over