My heart leapt to my throat as I watched the pen in my husband, Icarus' hands, lightly touch the the divorce papers. I couldn't believe it. We were getting divorced. He turned to look at me with a smug gloating look on his face before he placed his signature on the paper.
About a week and two days ago when I had found out that Icarus cheating on me with some woman called Valeria, I was livid. But in a short moment it had simmered down and I found myself crying.
'Was I not good enough for him?' I wondered as I silently sobbed in my arms to avoid waking up Luca our-wait no,Icarus and I's three year old son who was at that time sleeping on my laps. Multiple thoughts coursed through my head along the lines of insecurities at that moment before eventually my naive little brain somehow came to the conclusion that he still loved me and that it was all a mistake while staring at the screen of my phone that showed evident proof of him kissing a hot blondie. I looked to see who had sent me the photograph only to see the words Anonymous Benefactor.
With naivety still amonk in my head, I put Luca to bed as I waited for Icarus to come back from work. As soon as he was settled down having dinner, I confronted him about the picture.
At that time he didn't even deny it and laughed to my face asking what I was gonna do about it. Annoyed I locked him out of our bedroom and the next day after dropping off Luca to nursery, I filed for divorce whose approval sheet I smacked on his face.
Then in my mind I had thought that if he saw the papers, he would back down atleast on the account of our son but he didn't and now here we are walking out of court just divorced.
When we reached the end of the the stairs, Icarus turned to me with a look that clearly said that he was relieved to finally be free of me. " You know I have to thank you.", he said "You've freed me from your boring self and now I can go to my lovely seductive Valeria. You know you were always boring in bed and in anything to do with pleasing and being seductive. I even don't know how I put up with you in our five years of marriage. Goodbye."
And with that he walked to his car where 'ugly' Valeria was sitting on its hood. On seeing him she smile and got off the hood giving him a long deep kiss. Being honest Valeria was anything but ugly. She was the exact definition of hot and trending having the latest fashions and looking like an Italian model. Seeing her, Livia didn't blame Icarus for leaving. After all she was old fashioned and wouldn't do any form of PDA.
Sighing she turned, walked to the street and hailed a taxi and entered missing the sad and agonizing look Icarus shot her. 'Its for you and our son's good. If I don't, he could~' Just thinking about it made him shudder. Though it pained him leaving her, for the sake of her and their son's safety he would do anything even causing himself and his wife pain.
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In the taxi just as Livia was about to begin crying her phone ring. Picking it out of her cheap maroon purse she answered without even looking at the Caller ID. "Hello?"she said tentatively.
"Livia!" the person on the other end exclaimed, "Oh my gosh girl I can't wait to see you. I've~"
"Who is this?" Livia interrupted. The person whom Livia identified as a female gasped, "I can't believe that you've forgotten me so quickly. It's me Lucia you friend since like kindergarten. What did Icarus hit it big and you forgot me?"
Hearing his name made Livia give out a silent choked sob that she quickly covered with the sound of her squeals. "Lucia, I've missed you. Where should we meet up?"
Livia could hear the sound of her best friend's eyeroll over the phone. "Oh so now you remember me. Where are you?"
"I'm in a taxi and just a little bit away from Mr. Freddy's Ice Cream Parlour." Livia responded. "Oh I'm there right. Shall I wait for you?" Lucia asked.
"Naa. Just get me my favourite and we meet up at the park next to it." Livia hoped that talking to her best friend would get her mind off of Icarus. "Okay see you there."her best friend said before ending the call.
Putting her phone back in her purse she tucked a lock of dark brown hair behind her ear before redirecting the driver.