The Marvelous Elijah’s Return

To learn that his wife was into another man was devastating to Elijah, and no matter how hard he thought about their fight, he just didn’t want to accept the fact that she was cheating on him.

“Damnit!!” Elijah groaned in frustration.

Tired, he buried his face into his pillow, his fists tightly clenched while his mind replayed their conversation, wishing that he had told her about his identity earlier.

Maybe that would have made Melina happy.

If she knew who he truly was then she would still be loving him.

But that didn’t change the fact that it was painful and humiliating to be rejected by the woman he loved. And to know she had chosen another man because of his wealth.

When Elijah first arrived in the country, as a foreigner, he was still new to everything, and one night at a bar, Melina approached him and that was the beginning of their friendship.

But it immediately turned into something heated that same night when she invited him over to her hotel room and they had sex, which ended up with their relationship becoming way more serious than he ever thought it would.

Right now, he felt confused as to where the Melina he first met was, not wanting to lose the real woman he has fallen for so deeply. Because the truth was, Elijah didn’t know if she was worth fighting for anymore.

Sighing loudly, Elijah sat up straight and rubbed the sleep out of his tired hazel eyes, grabbing his phone from beside him and looking at the time.

“Six am..?” Elijah whispered as he dropped his phone back on the sheets.

Leaning his weight on the pillows, he stared at his surroundings in shock, wondering why the hell he had not fallen asleep at such a later hour.

But honestly, the thought of Melina had never left his mind the entire night. The ones that were full of love and passion, moments that he remembered all too clearly from their past, and the way she kissed him with such a burning passion… the feeling of her body against his own, the warmth that lingered between them after their heated kiss, the soft moan she gave when he bit her neck…

The memory of those things was still fresh, and his heart ached at the thought that the value of their love was measured by monetary things.

The nights he cuddled her, her sick days that he nursed her back to health, moments when he held her in his arms, and the times he made sure she slept well and ate healthily – it was all just meaningless to her because they were not worth money and luxurious things.

But his feelings for her remained intact, even though she had hurt him and broken his trust.

and no one else, and even

were only two people in the world that mattered to him: his family and Melina,

the doorway and saw Melina standing there wearing a robe with her

on her tired eyes, knowing that she was suffering from a hangover, and then his gaze lowered to

and watched Melina’s expression turn sour

greeting, Melina stretched out the folder to him and said, “Here. Sign

onto Elijah’s face as he stared down at the file and took it from her hand,

Elijah asked softly,

downwards slightly as she shrugged her shoulders, saying, “It’s been years, Elijah. You can’t keep holding onto me like this. It will only hurt me more and my

just said seemed to make no sense to Elijah as he continued to stare down at the documents,

for either of us,” Melina explained. “We just need to go our separate ways and stay

he began flipping through the papers. “Is

be associated with you anymore! What’s not there to understand? Don’t you get that?” Melina snapped at

questioned, shaking his head. “I don’t understand anything that

the shame I went through last night? Everyone at my party knew I was married

“Melina,”

a filthy stain to my reputation and self-esteem! Do you know how

as he said, “I’m not sure what

the rest of my life with, and you never will be. There is no

treat you right… I  haven’t cheated on you,

but a bet with my girls.

“What,”

dared me to marry a guy I had had a one-night stand with and divorce him later on after a few years,

eyes searched hers for a sign that she wasn’t lying. But when he found none, he let his

you and your friends? You were never serious about having a real marriage, were you?  If anything, our relationship means nothing to you. I was just a toy to use

and stop making me miserable! You are not worth it anymore! Just forget about me, Elijah…” Melina said, avoiding his gaze as she tossed

“No!”

“What?!”

was real and that Melina was giving up on their relationship, Elijah