Revenge After Divorce Novel by Black Rose

OLIVIA

I was busy in my office doing two people’s jobs since I fired Jane. I have asked Lauren to advertise the position for me, but the process was going to take at least a month before I could get someone in to fill the position. Meanwhile I would have to suck it up and do the work. It was my business. after all, and it was growing fast.

I had two big clients and over fifteen smaller ones. Then the individual tax and finance consulting for the small businesspeople in town. It seemed like I was going to have to hire someone else to help with the work if things continued the way they did.

My door opened and closed. “Lauren, it’s good you came in. I wanted to ask if the truck company got back to you regarding those two trucks we want to buy and please ask HR how far they are with hiring the two drivers who are going to be driving those trucks. We need to keep this moving so we can take the load off our current drivers.‘

There was no response until I lifted my head, and I was shocked to see Nick standing there just watching me. “Nick, what are you doing here?” he didn’t say a word, he just placed a brown envelop on my table in front of me.

I took it and opened it. Inside laid the divorce

papers, I took them out and read them. He didn’t give me anything like I asked. I went to the last page, and he had not sign them yet. I looked at him, he still didn’t say a word just watching every move I made.

I took a pen and signed my name on the last page. I then put the papers back into the envelop then handed it to him. He took it then walked out of my office without saying a word. After he left, I tried working but I couldn’t. My marriage of four years just ended, and the man didn’t say a word about it.

I didn’t know what I expected him to say but I didn’t think it would be like that. I loved the man and spent four years with him. Hell! we were planning at family together and now I was going to raise our son alone. That was not the plan.

Our plan didn’t include him sending me to jail, it didn’t include our son being born there and it certainly didn’t include me asking him for a divorce. Our plan was that I was going to stay home until I fall pregnant then look after our son.

We were going to be a family, a small happy family but now all that has gone. down the drain with just a stroke of a pen and a quiet man who delivered the papers. I tried putting the issue out of my mind and working but I couldn’t.

Memories of our life together came rushing back into my head making me

nu ex- sad about how things transpired between my husband and I. I mean, husband and I. “Mam, are you alright?” I didn’t even see when Lauren entered my office or how long she was standing there for.

“I am alright, Lauren. What can I help you with?” she came closer to my desk. “But mam, you are crying, you are not alright.” I felt my face and indeed, my face was wet with tears, and I didn’t even realise it. I tried wiping them away, but they kept coming.

“Am sorry Lauren, I don’t know what got into me.” It was embarrassing for the boss to be crying in front of her assistant like that and it was unprofessional of me. “Why don’t you go home mam, it’s almost the end of the day anyway. You can pick this up again tomorrow.”

That was a good idea, I couldn’t let other employees to see me like that.” Good idea, did you need something from me so I can do it before I leave?” she shook her head. “No mam, it can wait until tomorrow. Go and I will lock up.”

I nodded picking up my bag and laptop before leaving the office. When I was safe in my car in the underground parking. I let it all out. I might have been. the one who asked for the divorce, but it didn’t mean that it didn’t hurt.

This was my life that ended and in the way it did. It was still a loss for me, and it hurt. I don’t know how long I sat there for, but I drove home eventually and when I got there. I opened a bottle of wine and started drinking.

1 needed it after the day I had. One bottle turned into two and then I found myself calling Ethan. “Olivia, is everything alright?”

“No, I mean yes. Well, my marriage ended today, officially. That’s right, it is overrrr, finished, am single now.” I told him with a drunk voice slurring my words as I spoke. “Am coming over.”

“No! nope, I don’t want you here, I just have a question for you.” I closed my eyes feeling like dozing off. “Olivia?”

“Huh?”

“What is the question?”

“What question?” he sighed. “You said you had a question for me, what is it.”

“Oh, I want to know why your friend chose Sandra over me. is she better than me Ethan? Maybe she is and is why my husband chose her. I mean my ex now. Did I tell you we are divorced now; I signed the papers today. You know, he didn’t say a word to me when he served me the papers. Your friend is cruel Ethan.”

“I am coming over; you are in no condition to be alone tonight.”

“Nope, am fine. I just want to work hard and show Nick that I can be something in this life without him. I want the next time he sees me; I want…”

That was all I could remember before the darkness consumed me