Out of Ashes Into His Heart

Gavin pressed his lips together without speaking, simply staring at me with a deep and complicated expression.

"Yes! They're getting a divorce. Are you happy now?" Dawn couldn't hold back and spoke up. "Now there's space for you two, bitch!"

Mandy frowned, her face full of displeasure. "What are you talking about? Gavin and I are good friends. We're completely innocent. Their divorce has nothing to do with me."

"Bah! Shameless vixen!" Dawn didn't hold back, immediately insulting her.

Mandy's facial expression changed as she was insulted, and realizing she couldn't gain any advantage here, she shot me a hateful glare. "No wonder Gavin is divorcing you. You're always suspicious and accusing people without reason!"

"Accusing you?" Her fake righteous act infuriated me, and I coldly retorted, "Do you dare say your divorce wasn't for Gavin?"

Mandy furrowed her brow and replied solemnly, "Why wouldn't I?"

I sneered. "How shameless."

Gavin had personally admitted that her divorce was for him. Yet now, she had the nerve to act virtuous before me.

Mandy seemed shocked by my firm belief that her divorce was for Gavin. She turned and glared at him, blaming him for revealing everything to me.

I coldly looked at him. "It seems like you're in a good mood now. You have the time to go shopping. If that's the case, let's head to the courthouse together and finalize the divorce!"noveldrama

His lips tightened, and he let out a sudden, mocking laugh, his voice laced with sarcasm. "You're so eager to divorce me? Is it because of Tom?"

"What?" I thought I hadn't heard him right.

Gavin's face darkened. "Didn't Tom admit yesterday that he's your lover? What? Are you still denying it?"

I almost wanted to laugh but found I couldn't. "You really think we're divorcing because of Tom?"

"Why else?"

Anger surged through me, a blazing fire in my chest that seemed ready to consume me whole. "Gavin, you're shameless!"

No one knew better than he did how our marriage had come to this point. But here he was, blaming me for everything.

"Fine. If that's the case, let's go to the courthouse now and get the divorce over with!"

He pressed his lips together again, his eyes briefly flashing with evasion, but he remained silent.

Beside us, Mandy seemed anxious and nudged his arm with her elbow. "What are you standing there for? Hurry up and agree! She's walking all over you-how can you tolerate that? Gavin, are you even a man?"

"Shut up!" Gavin shot her a sharp glare. "Stop embarrassing yourself. Let's go." With that, he turned and stormed out.

She pouted, unwilling to let it go, but still hurried after him. "Wait for me! Don't walk so fast!"

Seeing them leave, I slumped onto the couch in the lounge area, feeling a strange sense of emptiness.

This was the man I had loved for 12 years.

But now, I realized he didn't even have the basic courtesy a man should have.

How had I been blind enough to fall for him?

"Grace?"

Dawn gently took my hand. She sounded worried as she said, "Enough. Don't waste your energy on this trash. It's not worth getting upset over him."