Chapter 101: Chapter 101
“How could you do this to me Emily! I trusted you” Ethan thundered and without waiting for a response he stormed out of the studio leaving Emily behind staring shocked at his retreating figure with the cameras blaring directly in her face. Her fingers began to tremble as she realized that she was all alone with just the interviewer’s wide eyes staring back at her, with just the next question hanging on the tip of her tongue.
She wanted to leave, to run away but how could she do that when the whole crew stared at her, with expectant faces waiting for her to admit it or deny it but how could she do either with the lump formed in her throat, her heart pounding and her vision doubling.
“Is that true Emily? Is your child really for Jackson Hatton, your husband’s younger brother?” the interviewer asked me now.
“Are you going behind your husband’s back?”
Emily swallowed hard, she was resolved to speak only the words were stuck in her throat and beads of perspiration formed on her forehead.
Then she placed a hand on her stomach “Yes my baby belongs to Jackson Hatton and I’m in love with him”
There was a collective gasp as she saw the camera zoomed in on her face but she went on “The pictures circulating around the internet were purely set up because it’s quite obvious that I wasn’t conscious. I was set up by my bodyguard Victor Connelly, I believe I was drugged and set up because how do you do that to a pregnant woman? What did I ever do to anybody?” her questions rang in the air with the anger in her voice evident, booming around the room and everywhere stayed silent for a minute. The silence felt so loud that Emily could hear her heart beat and she stared at all of them now.
“So what’s going to happen between you and Ethan now? Do I smell a divorce ahead?” the interviewer asked and Emily rolled her eyes unwilling to answer. Then she stood up abruptly and dashed out of the studio, immediately she ran into Ethan who caught her just before she slipped.
“Emily” he called softly “I’m so s – ” she didn’t let him finish before her palms connected sharply with his cheek, slapping him hard that he stumbled back in shock, his cheeks reddening immediately and his hands flew to grab his face.
“You stupid bastard!” she yelled at him “How could you do that to me? How could you throw me under the bus like that?”
Ethan stared shocked, the pain radiating all over his face as he searched for his words “I had to do something, I never expected someone knew about that. What did you expect me to do?”
“Anything but that, you couldn’t think of a lie in your quick-witted brain? You didn’t think about me”
“Why should I do that? Were you thinking about me when you went ahead to get pregnant by my brother?” Ethan sounded loudly and Emily heaved, the impact of his words slowly hitting her but the anger she felt was too much to think about anything else.
“I didn’t ask for any of this Ethan, I didn’t ask for a bloody interview and to clear the air when there was nothing to clear. You weren’t thinking about me and how much I have had to endure since I got married to you, the lies, the secrets and pretending to be who I’m not and you’re not making it easier because you only think about yourself Ethan”
“Emily – ” he tried to call but Emily wasn’t done.
“I was drugged yesterday Ethan, with a baby in my belly I was drugged just so somebody could paint a wrong information about me. I have been kidnapped, humiliated, injured, lost my bloody memory since I got married and you couldn’t for once think about me, to protect my already damaged image because you wanted to save yourself” she went on, her anger intensifying even further but she needed to get it all out, all the pent up emotions she had hidden in her chest – she needed to release them one way or the other.
“Yes I’m in love with Jackson, I fell in love with him even though I was married to you. Is that so much of a crime? And yes Ethan, I choose him, I choose him again and a million times over – ”
“Don’t say what you’re about to say?” Ethan said, his eyes drilling into hers, this was the first time ever that she had confessed her love for Jackson to him and his heart ripped at her saying it, he wanted her to stop, to just hug him but instead she stared right back at him with the same intensity.
“I told the truth, I am in love with Jackson and you know what – ”
“Don’t say it Emily” Ethan repeated but she wasn’t listening.
“This contract is over anyways, I want a divorce”
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Emily quickly hopped into a taxi, she didn’t wait for Ethan’s response before she sprang away from him, she needed to find Jackson, she needed to explain the pictures, the interview and reassure her love for him, tell him she was finally divorcing Ethan. She dialed his number over and over again but he never picked, her heart began to pound and the worry set in. Where was Jackson? Why was he ignoring her.
She went back to the Hatton family house but he wasn’t there, a generous housekeeper mentioned that he had gone back to his penthouse upstate and immediately she set there.
Getting there, she rang his doorbell – once, twice, with her heart pounding in anticipation but she when she heard the door click and flung open, she came face to face with a strange blonde girl in a lace lingerie, with her eyes confident as she took Emily’s appearance in.
Emily stood shocked, staring back at her, unable to speak until she found her voice
“Who are you?”
The girl chuckled wiping her lips “I’m Avery”
“Where’s Jackson?”
“He’s asleep” she replied
“Tired from all the sex we’ve been having”
Emily froze, her heart ripping out of her chest