Studying sessions were made this semester a lot easier since I met some of my class mates that study the same course and material as me. Adrian became fixture in our study sessions with him joining us and even helping us understand the material. The material came easy to him and explaining it became more understanding for us..
I built a bond with my study group that also included Adrian and due to my future endeavors I never dated anyone and I never insinuated anything to them either and I was content. By midway through my third year, Adrian and I started developing feelings for each other that became more noticeable amongst our housemates especially Ashley who was in a relationship with Sebastian when she entered our home with an announcement.
"I have came to a decision and I am gonna start dating Adrian," Ashley stated as I stared at her "No, you have Sebastian," I stated since we had been dating for a few weeks now "I am better suited," she stated and the inner me came out as I pinned her to the wall "Touch my boyfriend and see what happens," I stated as my hand wrapped around her throat before she nodded.
Dating Adrian had become easy, we saw each other every morning and every evening that I started falling for him more and more everyday. Every time Adrian came over Ash would walk around half naked and start some type of bullshit just for attention that her exuberance went over board when she dropped her towel.in front of us that made me snap that bruised her face, her yanked out half her hair and the beat her like crazy..
Had for months warned that I won't take her disrespect just cause she wants every man around her not just the one under her. I drawed the line and she kept crossing it so I had found me a place with Adrian and moved out of my dorm and into an apartment above my parking garage and since my classes were now on the other side of campus it became easier. After a few weeks of moving out I saw Julie who was dragging a crying Ashley behind her that I stopped and stared at them. After my fight with Ashley I realized I messed with my friendship with Julie who only had the best interest between us but Ash was beyond redemption. Her whore of a ways is what hurt my friendship with her that she never did it again.
Moving through my classes I still occasionally saw Julie and we managed to put our differences aside and our friendship resumed. My relationship with Adrian progressed at a leisurely paced that within a year with living with him we were married and looking at getting a bigger place. Our whirlwind romance hit me fast at how much he showered me with attention that our first two years felt like a dream.
Being a wife and a student was a big change to my once pampered little life I lead at home with my family. Adrian became my centre of my world that everything I did revolved around him. My schedule aligned perfectly with his that I saw less of my family and spoke less with them that I my family started to notice that I was so busy that I barely had time to look after myself as I became so obsessed with my husband that I had forgotten to inform my family of a big change but I realised that Adrian didn't also tell his family.
I was so happy in my little world that I blocked out the outside world except school study sessions as that is what kept my grades up and once I end this year I will be going through my finals in few months that will take up the remaining yet for me and Adrian. I was so happy and determined that I stayed at the apartment during the holidays while Adrian went home back to his family.
I was enjoying my time to myself to plan the last part of me. I was a senior and my exams are about too take over my life for the next couple of months and I was preparing as much as I could when my phone started ringing. Answering the video call my sister's beautiful filled the screen "Hi baby," she chirped through the phone "Hi sissy, how are you?," I asked as I stared back at her. "I miss you and wanted to check in on you. Your not coming home?," she asked I shook my head "Not this time. I'm okay, I'm safe and I will finish my finals off ." I said as my sister sighed then changed the subject. I hadn't told my family about me dating and then getting married I had been to wrapped up in Adrian to even notice.
Talking so freely about my everyday became a habit that I always shared my thoughts with her and at times with them all. I wasn't for one to hold back and knowing that I am too far for them to help physically I know they worry so I update them regularly. Slowly explaining my new relationship to my sister that I gushed through my explanation that she smiled but that was it. She didn't interject and she seemed to lose her sparkle that I realised that I just sprung this on her. Ending my video chat with her I didn't fee so brand new anymore but I didn't dwell on it. I got stuck into being a great wife and a good partner to endorse my husband's image.
The events we would attend became easier to work,knowing who I was talking too. Since I had made these types of connections at home with my families company that everyone in the circle.knew my husband by the end of our first year married. His business started thriving and he became a great businessman within our state that his reputation was drew in his investors and since I was well versed in that, I wasn't as awkward as I thought.
Meeting other companies and listening to what they have to offer peaked my interest, I made some many connections for my husband that by the second year he had opened his second branch. The influx of his family and friends was instant that it became crowded with his parents now residing in our home. His parents and all their friends had started treating me like I was a maid more then the wife.
Due to my family's protective nature I barely had time to call most days or be interupted by my mother in law while on the phone to protential clients smoothing out all the details when she would rudely interrupt and refused to leave until I did as she asked. For the last several months this has been the hardest thing to adapt to that my husband is barely home and when he is he will listen to his mother and demand I apologize if I'd refused her request.
The dynamics of marriage was barely there, Adrian became non existent these days unless to yell about me disrespecting his mother, father, family or friends. Adrian started distancing himself from me a year after his parents moved him, the constant battle with them in my home has definitely driven a wedge between my husband and I. Then on our third anniversary his mother invited her best friend and their family into my home expecting me to cater to them as if she was the lord. I had started becoming short with everyone around me, started avoiding my husband whenever he came home. Had move his stuff into a spare room to stop myself from allowing this too happen.
I had been separated from my family for almost eight years and I had graduated the top of my class almost three years ago and I have been married for the last three years to a man who I loved with everything in me, only to become estranged in my own home with him. My conversations with my family had become non existent as I had been to busy building my husband empire while being delegated to housewife duties only.
During our dinner my mother in law had then proceeded to enact a story of my unwifely duties to produce an heir with her man child. The conversation flowing around me seemed to knock me speechless as I watched her sympathetic attempt at painting me evil and incompetent. His father then added more insult to injury as he announced Adrian will now be divorcing me in place for the friend's daughter sitting at the table. Kenzie is her name, to see both mother and daughter face light up I realized they had set this up to humiliate me to gain favor with the guest..
Sitting there I sat stunned as I took in what they just said while my husband sat there quietly. "Where's the papers?," I announced as my mother in law produce them proudly "Sign it Adrian," my mother in law spoke as my husband sat staring at me intently that I knew was his own doing. I didn't make a noise, not a sound as I stared at him with my life in his hands and as he signed his name I felt my world drop.
Signing them with his eyes locked on me, render me speechless. I could feel his hate I could feel his disappointment in me and now I knew why. He believed there nonsense and since he decided against talking with me I felt my smile disappear and my eyes narrowed on him and then at his family as the divorce agreement was slid in front of me. I stared at Adrian then down at the agreement and read through it. It stated that since I had entered the marriage with nothing I was not entitled to the pre marital assests. I had twenty four hours to vacate the premises as this would be used as his home.
"I will get my lawyer to look it over and will see you tomorrow at the court house." I stated as I got up off my seat with the divorce agreement in my hand and left the house. Hailing a taxi, I headed to my family home here that had be unoccupied for the last two years since I had my days filled with Adrian's family. Operating my phone amongst my tears I called my family chat that had been silent on my end for the past three years only speaking seldomly with just my sister, when my eldest brother answered as he seemed to be at the office.
"Baby everything okay?," he asked as I laughed then burst into tears "I'm getting divorced," I sputtered as my tears clouded my vision. "Where are you? Are you safe?," He fired questions at me as I sobbed in the back of the taxi. "I'm ... going ... to ... the ... villa ... " I said as I saw my brother nod "Will be there in a few hours, sleep baby." My brother soothed as I nodded "Okay brother," I said as I dried my eyes and relaxed against the chair as we turned into the street.
This was under my family and I had no intention of letting Adrian know of it. Pulling into the familiar driveway I climbed out of the car and headed inside. Entering I only left with my most prized possessions that I had removed a few months prior to prevent anything being lost. Entering my bedroom I laid out my divorce agreement and capture every piece and in order then sent it to my eldest brother to have viewed before signing it. The speed in which they had served these papers had taken me by surprise, taking a shower to wash of the pain from tonight's drama that lead me to hide away from my pain.
Once I was finished and in pair of pajamas that felt like heaven, I sat down under my covers and cried myself to sleep. The betrayal, the emotional distancing, the invasion of my home, the lack of communication from my husband, the lack of intimacy with solely my husband had what lead us here today. My phone that had been vibrating beside me, failed to ruse me out of my sleep when a consistent ringing managed to break through my fog, that I answered it without looking at the caller "What," I growled as I felt my eyes stinging from the light "Where are you, I am waiting for you at the courthouse," Adrian's baritone voice came through my phone as I yawned at stared at the time and realised it was only nine am, dragging myself out of bed, I made myself presentable when I smacked into a wall. "Well good morning baby," a familiar baritone spoke above me, lifting my eyes I saw my eldest brother Logan standing in front of me.
"Logan," I said as I launched myself at him squealing excitedly when I heard a throat clear and turned to see a beautiful lady standing in front of us looking around "This is my personal assistant, Rain," Logan introduced as I smiled at her "It's a pleasure,* I said as I saw her stared at me, then at Logan before I rolled my eyes and got down.
"You read the papers, let's go. You can brief me on the way there," I spoke as I reached for my house keys and car keys before heading into the parking garage that held my car. "Does it even work?," my brother stared at my car that I have owned for the past several years that I just rolled my eyes and started my pride and joy before heading to the court house as Logan prepped me for the negotiation.
Rain interjected at intervals to best poach my testament to answer any questions not properly asked. "Keep calm, no eye contact while in front of them with each other and remain cordial with everyone," Rain advised as I ran that over and over again. "There is a thirty day cooling period and you will need to be back for that and as of anything you can leave and return in thirty days time," Rain spoke as I turned to her with a surprised look.
"I can go home for cooling period and then come back to retrieve the certificate?," I asked astound at her statement and her firm nodded nearly made me cry that I took a moment to collect myself in the car, doing my makeup again, before stepping out of the car and heading inside with Logan and Rain in the front of me leading us inside the chambers where our divorce will be processed. Sitting down I found Adrian in front of me staring at me angrily as he took in my two companions. "You finally showed," Adrian spoke as I just ignored him staring at his lawyer who took the hint.
Starting a process and going through the divorce settlement and acknowledging my lack of asset when entered into the marriage therefore that is not apart of shared assest, Logan had locked eyes on Adrian and his lawyer while they addressed me directly. Logan's nod at Rain got her to produce a pen then nod at me as she passed it to me. When I sighed and signed my name on all the highlighted tabs, as did Logan and Adrian's lawyer as witnesses of the dissolve of our marriage. "There is a thirty day cooling period that requires you both are in front of the judge who will then grant you both the certificate of divorce." Adrians lawyer spoke as I sat there dazed at my one sided love who I thought will love me forever and it changed In a matter of years. My dream of a family with my husband had now been ripped away from me, stating I'm defective. I was so stunned that I sat there for a few seconds before my brother stood emanating an angry aura as he addressed the two men "Until the end of the month," he spoke as he turned away from everyone exiting the door when Rain turned towards me and got me up and off my seat following my brother out of the room.
When my wrist was caught as I was crossing the door threshold and was spun around with an angry Adrian who was staring daggers at me. "You dare to challenge me," he spat as I stared at the man I had loved for so many years and that I helped build his empire that he barely knew what he was doing that I stared blankly at the man in front of me, before yanking my arm by voice straight out of his grip as I stared at him "Challenge you!," I stared incredulous at him "Your my biggest mistake in life Adrian," I spat as I exited the office heading to where my brother was standing waiting for me as we entered the elevator heading back to the carpark to head back to the villa before packing it back up and heading straight to the airport heading home.
Staring down at the city below I stared down at the city I called home for almost ten years. The city I found love for the first time, found myself bound to another human happy as hell. Living on my own for several years that I adapted pretty well with Adrian and then came my hurt, pain and lack of love in my home. The tears ran silently down my face as I stared out of the window and embraced my heartache without interrupting others before I fell asleep the rest of the flight.