Chapter 43: Bad Reputation
Amelia clicked on the embedded video with shaky hands. Apparently, it was happening live― Caleb was holding a press conference!
"The woman in question is Amelia Kentwood. As you can see, the both of us have been married for three years."
To her horror, their marriage certificate was shown in the background, along with sweet photographs of the two of them hand-in-hand on their various dates at the park, cuddled in bed together like two birds of a feather... the slideshow went on and on while Caleb continued to speak.
"While I admit that I might have been too forward in approaching her, we were married for too long for me to simply turn a blind eye to her actions. How could she carry on with Matteo Montgomery like what we had didn’t matter to her?"
Bright camera flashes went off in unison, highlighting the watery sheen in his eyes. Amelia gripped her phone so hard her knuckles turned white, wanting to hurl it at the wall in anger.
Then she reminded herself that she couldn’t waste money to repair her phone, and she slowly unclenched her hands. She was in public, so she couldn’t let loose the outraged scream that was frantically trying to tear out of her throat.
Caleb was an awfully good actor! He had the reporters eating in the palm of his hand, and he relished in their attention, continuing to speak about their relationship as though he cherished every moment of it, claiming that they fell in love despite the differences in their statuses, and how they wished to live a humble life free from the scrutiny of higher society.
So this was how Caleb wanted to play it? He wanted to play the sad lover, jilted because his wife divorced him to make a play for a richer man?
It was so false that Amelia wanted to hurl.