Her billionaire husband divorces her when she needs him the most. She has a week left to live and has just discovered she's pregnant. Life gives her a second chance to get revenge on her ex husband, but will she fall even harder for him now or overlook the fact that CEO Aaron, Alpha of the Grey pack, was only trying to protect her by letting her go?
Chapter 1 Married To Divorce
"It's right here in your head. We can't get rid of it because it's in a delicate spot. I'm sorry, Mrs. Hendrix."
The doctor's words hit me like a meteor falling from the sky. I was crushed, utterly devastated. I had just a week left to live before the tumour in my brain took my life.
My hands shook as I held the mahogany table. "Are you sure there's nothing that can be done, Dr. Trevor?"
"It has already spread to all the vital organs in your body. We'd ask that you return home and spend your last days in the care of your loved ones."
Three hours ago, I fainted and hit my head on the handle of the cabinet beneath the kitchen sink. I had been feeling blue on the morning of my wedding, but I had no idea this would be the outcome of my hospital visit. The tumour gave no signs while it ate me up inside out.
Moreover, my husband had left me all night. It was supposed to be our wedding night, but I could tell he was running, giving excuses because he didn't want to have anything to do with me. This flash marriage was his idea. He approached me a few weeks ago while I was handling some tasks in the company. He knew I needed the money and he convinced me to do something as crazy as this.
I grabbed my purse. The nurse behind me helped me settle into the wheelchair. She rolled me out of the doctor's office. Just this morning, I was exchanging vows. Now I'm on my final breaths. Who knows when it will be over?
I thought about throwing his ring away, but I felt I had to speak to my husband, Aaron, about this. I hoped he would want to fight for me, even though the first time we actually got close enough was four weeks ago in that bar down the street.
In reality, I met Aaron Hendrix, the owner of Grey groups one year ago. He was my boss, but the first time I said a word to him was at that bar a few weeks ago. He didn't know who I was, but I knew who he was, and if I wasn't under the influence of alcohol, I would have walked away instead of landing in his bed.
I sighed. My driver helped me into the flashy sedan. He tucked the wheelchair into the front seat while I settled into the backseat. Who had I wronged? Why was this happening to me? I've suffered all my life to just end it this way, without the luxury of a second chance.
So, I cried. I cried hard while the driver took me home and when we arrived at Aaron's grand house, my stomach churned. I wanted to puke. The driver handed me over to the maid, who helped me to the toilet.
I puked and puked until I was sure my insides had found their way into the toilet drain. When I was done, I took a shower and waited in the living room for Aaron to get back. He was probably looking down on me because I was his staff and because I was cheap enough to have had a one-night-stand with him back then. Maybe, just maybe that was why he stayed out tonight.
But if anything, I was grateful for our marriage. I had finally found a way to save Suzy, my sister.
"June."
I heard his manly and confident voice summon me from outside the living room door. I didn't roll the wheelchair towards his voice because I also heard his footsteps approaching.
Aaron walked into the living room after crossing the narrow hallway that came right ahead of the foyer. He looked handsome, still in his tux. When he got a lot closer, he reeked of alcohol.
He held a brown envelope in one hand. I was focused on it. It distracted me and I didn't get to see his reaction to my current pale and fragile state.
"June, what's wrong?" He asked while rooted to a spot.
"I fainted."
He pinched his eyes closed and released a frustrated sigh. Then, he cracked them open and cast me a tender gaze I had never seen before, except on the night he was inside me.
"Talk to me. What happened?"
I had said I wouldn't cry, but I just couldn't stop looking at the envelope in his hands that seemed too serious. My eyes become teary.
"Dr. Trevor said..." I whispered until my voice disappeared, but I tried again, looking at him square in the eyes. "He said I have a tumour in my head. Aaron, I have just one week left."
Aaron gripped the envelope hard, squeezing it in an alarming way. He looked scared, confused. It shocked me when a lone tear rolled down his cheek. Did this mean he cared?
"Jesus, June..." He raked a hand through his dark brown hair, crouching and clutching his skull. "This can't be true."
I rolled the wheelchair closer to him. This felt like the most intimate we've been ever since that night that secretly meant a lot to me than it did to him. I took his hands away from his head as he raised his eyes to me. I was already a crying mess.
"Aaron, I'm dying. I don't have much time left, but you have to be my strength and the strength of my family."
His jaw clenched, and he looked away. I saw the look in his eyes before he averted them. He wasn't here because he was ready to play husband. Aaron came home on our wedding night with this envelope for a reason.
"My sister still needs your help. Suzy needs you when I'm no longer around." I tasted my snot on my tongue.
Aaron stood on his feet and took his hand away. He turned away from me for a long moment. I hated watching his taut back decide. It was too much torture.
"It's fine. If you don't want to look after them even when I'm dead, then just give Suzy the money to settle her loans-"
"Let's divorce."
His words were a slap in the face one million times. I was thrown off this wheelchair in my head and I was slammed and plastered against the wall behind me. My head began to shake violently.
"No, No, No! You can't do this to me-"
"June, my mind is already made up. Let's end this marriage."
"I just told you I'm dying, and you want to get a divorce?"
He extended the hand holding the brown envelope, stabbing me in the chest with a double-edged sword. I was restless. I couldn't breathe. How could he?
"This can't be happening." I sighed, sobbing out a laugh and sniffling.
"Also, your family won't get a dime from me. I can no longer settle Suzy's debts. You would have to do that yourself." His expression turned to stone. He was no longer the Aaron that walked into our home this evening. They were now two different people.
I shot up from the wheelchair and grabbed his collar, screaming in his face. "No! You can't do this to me. I signed a legal contract and married you on the altar-Aaron, please! They will kill her. Those loan sharks will kill her."
Aaron pulled my hand away from his collar and spat in my face. "I want you out of my house right this minute. Never come back to me, June Kim."
Where had I gone wrong? He had obviously come into our home this evening to deliver this performance, but I ended up shocking him with the news of my impending death. It affected him, so why then was he treating me like trash now?
Aaron went into the master bedroom and took out all the suitcases and belongings I had moved into his room hours earlier. He threw them over the railing of the stairs and then outside the building. I tried to stop him.
I grabbed onto his leg, but he kicked me out the door and flung me across the lawn. What shocked me more was the look of guilt and regret in his eyes. It was like he didn't want to do this, but he was doing this.
"Aaron, please." I called out from where I was grovelling on the hard ground under the night sky before he shut the door of his home. "You-You can't do this to my family and I."
"Don't appear before me again, June. Have a good death."
My heart broke. How cruel was he to have said that? As I took my belongings away from his house, as much as I could carry at a time, I vowed to get my revenge for tonight's humiliation...
Chapter 1 Married To Divorce
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Chapter 2 Second Chance
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Chapter 3 Paranormal Investigation Agency
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Chapter 4 The New Co-Founder
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Chapter 5 Meeting My Ex-Husband
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Chapter 6 How To Seduce Your Ex
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Chapter 7 The First Slip Up
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Chapter 8 Verity's Body
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Chapter 9 The Cyber Attack
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Chapter 10 A Job Offer
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Chapter 11 A Troubled Aaron
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Chapter 12 Mission Feedback
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Chapter 13 The Meeting
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Chapter 14 A Bargain
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Chapter 15 The Hidden Attack
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Chapter 16 Gruesome Killing
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Chapter 17 Deep in The Lion's Den
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Chapter 18 Difficult Choices
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Chapter 19 It's Just Sex
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Chapter 20 Unicorns and Rainbow
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Chapter 21 Chasing The Leads
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Chapter 22 Reincarnation Manual
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Chapter 23 Determination and Threat
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Chapter 24 The Presentation
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Chapter 25 Decoding The Past
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Chapter 26 Bugging His Laptop
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Chapter 27 Sidekick
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Chapter 28 A True Friend
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Chapter 29 A Close Call
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Chapter 30 Take Off Your Clothes!
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Chapter 31 Memory Lane
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Chapter 32 Vacation
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Chapter 33 How Much Do You Weigh
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Chapter 34 Sudden Mate
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Chapter 35 Hidden Secrets
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Chapter 36 Lies and Relationships
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Chapter 37 Lion's Den
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Chapter 38 The Rescue
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Chapter 39 Blind Conspiracy
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Chapter 40 A Cornered Alpha
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