Chapter 15 (1/2)

Chapter 15

For a moment, Eric was rendered speechless.

He turned it over in his head again, Chloe’s words, if he really heard it right.

But it was. She said that. Chloe had just asked for a divorce.

“What do you mean di…vorce.”

Eric spoke slowly.

His expression showed how greatly shaken he was, but Chloe didn’t notice.

“Yes. I’ve already prepared the documents.”

And she handed the finely folded divorce papers to Eric.

As though the folded papers had been opened and closed several times, the edges of the documents were wrinkled.

This was proof enough that she had been holding onto these for a long time.

As he noticed this, Eric’s expression became more stiff and his breaths came short.

“I’ve already signed them. All that’s needed is your signature, then we can submit these to the Supreme Court.”

Chloe explained what she had already prepared.

Yes, if these documents would be submitted, the divorce would be approved after the ruling. It wouldn’t take long.

It was unlikely that he would object to the divorce, just as he left her earlier without any hesitations. She thought that he might even be happy.

So there shouldn’t be any complications with the divorce. Chloe thought so.

But then…

“Wife. You must have gone crazy.”

Eric gritted his teeth and said this. His grey eyes flashed with an unsettling rage.

“You wouldn’t say this if you were in the right mind.”

Seeing Eric act like this, Chloe gulped dryly.

She didn’t expect Eric to react this way. Her hand trembled while she was still holding the divorce papers.

“I am of my right mind.”

Contrary to his claims, her voice was clear.

It was the same intelligent, clear voice that he knew, and at this Eric grew more agitated.

“If you really are, then how could you possibly bring up divorce in front of me?”

“Why can’t I?”

Chloe’s chest tightened, but she straightened her posture and lifted her chin.

She couldn’t understand Eric. Why was he angry? Wasn’t this divorce beneficial to him? But why…

Oh, was it perhaps because of the money? Was he mad because he couldn’t get back the money that he had spent on her family once they were divorced?

As expected, it was because of the money. Chloe finally understood why he was reacting in this way.

“I’ll pay back the money that was borrowed. Somehow.”

Whether she would borrow that money from the royal family, or if she must steal it from her mother’s safe, she would somehow pay him back in full.

Today, Chloe had such a bold thought. That she’d go crazy if she didn’t do this.

“If you give me just a little time, I’ll prepare it, so—”

“It’s not the money!”

On the other hand, Eric felt like he was going crazy, too.

He hated it when something as lowly as money matters would come out of Chloe’s noble lips.

“How many times do I have to spell it out for you that I don’t need it! It’s not something that you should stick your nose into!”

“How can I not care?!”

As she shouted back, Chloe was also surprised at herself for doing so. She took in a deep breath, rubbing her chest.

“I continue to live like this because of the money that you say I shouldn’t care about, and I endure it every day, so how could I not care while I’m still alive…”

What Chloe was going to say was that she was always conscious of these money matters, but she was never given the right to do so.

“…Endure, you say.”

But Eric didn’t accept it. No, he couldn’t.

In the first place, this marriage only happened because of money. Because of that money, Chloe had no choice but to be swept away into this marriage.

As such, they faced the other, each standing over their own path, running endlessly and believing that one day they would cross paths.

However, as they ran, they found that their paths were parallel. There was no chance for them to intersect.

That’s why they could only blame the other person. They each did not understand. They didn’t even want to understand.

This may have been their biggest problem.

“Wife.”

Eric took a step closer to Chloe.

“Chloe Aslan.”

And she slowly raised her head, her eyes meeting with Eric’s.

He looked into her eyes like that, his reflection shaking. What he saw was a rat trembling in the rain.

Did he look human? Was he living like a human?

He asked himself, but there was no answer. He didn’t think there would ever be an answer.

“You’ll forever have the name Aslan.”

Eric snatched the documents in Chloe’s hand.

“Divorce, or anything like it.”

And tore the documents in half.

“We can’t do that. Never.”

“F*ck!”

Eric bit hard on his lower lip as he roughly loosened his tie. After opening a bottle, he poured some liquor into a glass.

Chkk. He lit a cigar and sprawled on the sofa.

’Divorce. Let’s get divorced.’