I pulled my hand back and turned to face Hailey.”Do you understand now?””Hailey,” I felt a strange sense of release, as if the pain had numbed me to the core and my emotions were finally running dry. I unbuckled my seatbelt and told her, “This is the reason.””Hailey, let’s get a divorce.”I opened the car door. Under the shocked-then-secretly-gleeful gaze of Hailey’s assistant, I smiled at him.
“Congratulations. All these years you’ve been relentlessly interfering in Hailey’s and my life, and you’re finally going to get what you want.””I don’t want Hailey anymore.”I turned and walked away.Hailey quickly got out of the car and grabbed my wrist.”Julian Hayes, what the hell is wrong with you? Do you have any idea I missed a multi-million dollar deal today because you called the police? J
ust because you said you were scared, I rushed to the police station like a maniac, only to find you’d called the cops on my assistant!””I’ve been putting up with you for too long.””You constantly target Alex, and he’s always spoken well of you, telling me not to get mad and to try to get along! You’re so ungrateful!”
My wrist burned from her grip, the scar there throbbing with even more pain. I frowned, looking at my badly reddened wrist.”Let go!”I forcefully yanked my hand from Hailey’s grip, rubbing my aching wrist, and then raised my hand and slapped Hailey across the face.”Hailey!””I’ve been putting up with you for too long too!”
Hailey and I had been together for ten years. Even after all our fights, arguments, and cold wars, I’d never done anything like this, humiliating her in front of an outsider. But I couldn’t hold it in anymore. I looked at Hailey and laid out the truth.”Let me tell you: when I was hospitalized with a high fever, you were out saving stray cats and dogs with your assistant.
