Chapter 100: What have you been hiding?
"Xavier, tell me what have you been hiding from me?" I asked, the urgency in my voice was obvious as I tugged at his arm and kept my gaze steady on him.
"The reason I agreed to marry you even though you were pregnant with your ex-husband’s child..." he began in a low voice, his eyes still closed as his cheeks still red, with a dazed look that was stretched across his face. I could still smell the alcohol in his breath as he spoke. Anticipation and fear was written all over my face as I waited for his answer. "I... I wanted revenge."
As the last word left the tip of his tongue, I felt my heart sink to the pit of my stomach within a split second. "You... what?" I asked, stammering as I struggled to get the words out of my throat. "Revenge?" I repeated with a frown etched between my brow and confusion swirling in the depths of my dark eyes.
My mind continued to buzz with thoughts and I could barely comprehend what he was saying. Revenge? What the hell was he talking about? My heart was still pounding loudly in my chest as I looked at him.
"I wanted... to get back at you for leaving me with another man, for cheating on me. The plan was to break your heart like you broke mine 3 years ago..." he continued to mutter under his breath, unaware of the damage his words have already caused.
It felt like the word had stopped spinning all at once.
This sudden drunken revelation wasn’t what I was expecting to hear on the night of my birthday. Shock and disbelief were swimming in my dark eyes as I looked at him like he was nothing more than a stranger. Everything I knew about him, were they all fake? Was every nice thing he did for me, all part of this sick revenge plan too?
I released my grip on his arm and I let out a breath, staring into space as my mind struggled to accept the truth. My lips were pressed into a thin line as thoughts flooded my mind and silence enveloped me entirely for a moment.
"This was... all for revenge?" I asked, my voice came out soft and weak as he only tossed and turned in his bed, squeezing his eyes shut. "Answer me, Xavier Wilder!" I yelled his name out loud this time, my yells echoing in the bedroom. I was way sober than before and surely my loud booming voice was enough to snap him out of his drunken state.