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.

Rita that I would marry her after I

fulfill her dying wish and put a perfect ending to her short life. However,

I left the hospital and went for a ride.I drove my white Maybach

I found myself pulling up in front of the villa where Scarlett lived.I rolled down my window and stared at the light

be asleep with a satisfied

have sent me

only a matter of time

lit up a

the only way left to help me calm

Scarlett's POV: 

decided I would go to

because I had finally gotten our marriage

more time and

far, a

you doing

on Charles and noticed the pile

from the number of cigarette butts, I had guessed that he had been

at him with

clothes he wore yesterday,and the stubble on his face and his bloodshot eyes told me that he had

just got here.Those cigarette butts aren't mine,"

 "Okay."

that he

first before we go to the lawyer's office?" I pointed to the breakfast place

least let me eat before

Charles looked

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

I gave up and just got

caught a whiff of the

looked out the window and saw the owner handing a cup

guessed there was no breakfast

buy breakfast at that place?"

"Yes."

you just

"I don't know how."

was an orphan and then an adopted

in a sheltered household where everything was done for

were not a priority

after

take me to the lawyer's office

he took me to his

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

was so fancy that ordinary people could not afford even the

make you some breakfast

and went to open my

watched his

be walking on air today, and once

feeling as on a high as I

finally legally dump me today and marry the

of buttering me up before divorcing me?" I

"Think whatever you want,"

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