“Don’t push it too far,” Antonio warned.
He was in the wrong, yet he told me not to push it too far. At that moment, I found him both pathetic and laughable.
“Sign the divorce papers, and these videos won’t make it to court.” I said.
I saw his eyes widen in disbelief. I couldn’t tell if he was more shocked by my determination to get a divorce or by my threat to release the videos.
My situation left me no time to ponder.
I rushed to the hospital’s printing station, printed a hard copy of the divorce papers, and laid them out in front of Antonio.
“Sign it now. Then you can be with her properly,” I said.
Antonio grabbed my hand. “You know I had a thing with her before. I was weak and made mistakes, but I still love you. I don’t want a divorce. Please, Grace, don’t throw away all these years.”
I stared into his face, recalling our early marriage days.
When Antonio first started at this hospital, we had nothing. He proposed, and without a second thought, I moved from my city to his.
At that time, I could tell he genuinely cared about me just by the way he looked at me. But now, all I saw were cold calculations in his eyes.
I knew I was right, especially when I noticed the faint love bites left by another woman on his neck. He was just shameless, begging me by bringing up the past.
“Antonio, I know better than anyone how you truly feel about me. If you don’t sign today, I’ll file a lawsuit. This marriage is over for me.”
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