“What do you want from me? Do you want me to go back so you can beat me again? Watch you and Eula act all intimate with each other?”
“Eula lied to me. I didn’t want any of it. I know I was wrong. Come back, Natalie. I’ll treat you right this time, just like before.”
“Like before? Which part? When you hung me in the living room for three days? Or when you stood by and watched as I lost our baby?”
I couldn’t hold it in anymore. I shouted, “Ask yourself, do you really think you did right by me or our baby?”
There was silence on the other end. After a long pause, he finally muttered, “I–I must’ve been out of my mind back then. But I know now that I messed up.
“Natalie, please give me another chance. I can’t live without you.”
I sneered. “Allll I want now is a divorce. From now on, you go your way, I’ll go mine.”
With that, I hung up without hesitation and blocked the number.
In the days that followed, Scott went completely off the rails. He called and texted me nonstop.
The more he clung on, the more resolute I became about leaving him.
I didn’t see him again until the day we went to court.
He looked like a different person. He was haggard and had bloodshot eyes. He didn’t even shave and looked nothing like the confident man he
used to be.
As soon as he saw me, he rushed over and grabbed my wrists tightly.
“Natalie, don’t leave me. Please, let’s not get divorced, okay?”
His grip was so tight that my wrists instantly turned red.
“Back off. Don’t touch my sister.”
Just as I tried to break free, Ken stepped in and pushed him away with
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