I Told My Domineering Husband I Never Enjoyed It Chapter 10

I Told My Domineering Husband I Never Enjoyed It Chapter 10

The next day, Kellan and I met at a café.

It was the same place we’d gone to all the time in high school.

He ordered me a caramel latte. Just like he always had back then.

I didn’t tell him I’d quit drinking coffee years ago.

Instead, I listened as he explained the new project.

But as he went on, the look in his eyes grew deeper, more searching.

Finally, he asked out of nowhere, “Seren… do we still have a chance?”

I was quiet for a moment.

“When my family offered you three hundred thousand dollars to leave me, you took the money.”

“That was the end of us.”

Kellan fell silent.

I looked at him calmly.

“I’m not trying to shame you. It’s just the truth.”

“You were good to me in high school, and we’re still friends, right?”

“That’s why I didn’t think twice about working at your company.”

“I could pay them that amount a hundred times over now.”

“What we had back then… it was real.” His voice turned strained.

“And now you’re getting divorced, coming to work at my company… I thought maybe we…’

I rested my chin in my hand and sighed.

I’d never been someone who clung to the past.

There were only three reasons I’d joined ApexCore Technologies.

First, I hadn’t told my parents about my marriage falling apart.

Working for my own family’s company would’ve raised too many questions.

Second, of all the well-known companies I’d applied to, ApexCore was the only one that sent me an

offer right away.

And third… I wanted to see how Rhys would react.

None of those reasons had anything to do with lingering feelings for Kellan.

After a long silence, he smiled bitterly.

“I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have asked.”

“There’s nothing to apologize for.” I said.

“If we did it all over again, you’d still take the money.”

He didn’t deny it.

“I’ll see this last project through, give it my all.”

“Then I’m handing in my resignation and going back to work for my family.”

Kellan looked surprised. Then he nodded.

“Okay. I’ll treasure whatever time we have left working together.”

As I got up to leave, I spotted a familiar figure-a young woman with a high ponytail, helping out

behind the café counter.

Maybe I’d been staring too long.

Maren looked over. Her face immediately lit up.

“Oh! We’ve met before!”

She wiped her hands on her apron and walked over.

“My friend’s the manager here, so I came to help out.”

“When I was presenting that PowerPoint, you were in the back…”

“Dozing off,” I supplied.

She laughed even harder.

“It wasn’t that bad!”

I looked at her carefully.

So this was the female lead the comments kept talking about.

She smiled so openly. Confident. Warm. Completely full of life.

After a brief pause, she scratched the back of her neck.

“I saw you again at the gala.”

“One of the managers from Hollister Group wouldn’t leave me alone, and it turned into this whale scene.”

“I never expected Mr. Hollister to step in.”

“He told me afterward that you couldn’t stand to see it and sent him over.”

“So… thank you!”

I pressed my lips together.

“…I didn’t.”

I didn’t know what else to say, so I just let it drop.

Maren didn’t seem bothered. She smiled and held out her hand.

“I’ll be on the new project too.”

“Looking forward to working together.”

I hesitated. Then shook her hand. Her palm was warm.

“If things ever don’t work out for you at ApexCore…”

I started, only to be cut off by Kellan pointedly clearing his throat beside me.

“…Well. You can always call me.”

“Oh! Will do!”

After I left the café, the comments, which had been quiet for a while, appeared again.

[Something’s seriously off with this story now.)

[My ML and FL are completely over.]

[They were never together to begin with.]

[Now you’re saying that? Too late. The romance is gone, and so is my favorite obedient wife female

supporting role.]

[Honestly though, isn’t this better?]

[Same! I just saw that the original storyline changed. Honestly, I’m fine with how things are now

The comments still annoyed me.

But I couldn’t deny they’d changed my life.

Without them, I never would’ve realized how unequal my marriage to Rhys had been.

A relationship built on one person always giving in should’ve ended a long time ago.

As the comments faded, I spotted Rhys by the side of the road.

I had no idea how long he’d been waiting there.

He walked over and handed me the divorce papers himself.

I glanced at them.

“You could’ve had your secretary deliver these.”

Rhys looked at me.

After a long silence, he spoke quietly, “I’ll respect your decision.”

“But… I’m going to win you back.”

I looked up at him in shock.

His expression never wavered.

“From now on, I’ll be the one to close the distance. I’ll

“No.” I cut him off.

A shadow crossed his face.

I gazed at a tree by the roadside and said softly, “Love is like deadwood.”

“Once its life is gone, spring never comes again.”

Rhys’s gaze followed mine-but the tree I was looking at stood lush and thriving, brimming with

life.

Love could rot beyond repair. People didn’t have to.

What we’d had was dead. I wasn’t.

I’d keep reaching for the sky.