My Accidental Husband Is My Revenge Partner - Chapter 41

We Don’t Need To Be Friends
Selene halts her steps. She turned back to look at Xavier while her face looked no different than a tomato at that moment.

“What did you say?” She asked, hoping she had misheard the first time and her mind was playing a trick on her.

“What if I’m in love with you?” Xavier repeated.

“You are not,” Selene said. “You can’t be in love with me,” she added, staring around the garden to find words she could add but was interrupted when Michelle came out of nowhere.

“Selene, Xavier. What are you two doing here?” Michelle asked through a forced smile. She had heard the question Xavier asked Selene and she couldn’t believe her ears.

‘Here I am trying to make him notice me and she is seducing him,’ Michelle thought to herself.

“We were just talking,” Selene replied before she limped back inside the mansion, leaving Michelle and Xavier behind.

Michelle glared at Selene’s back but quickly changed her expression when she looked at Xavier.

“Xavier, can we talk?” She asked, her voice very gentle and internally hoping that Xavier wouldn’t dismiss her like the other times.

“What do you want?” Xavier questioned, his tone impatient as he waited for her to speak.

Michelle forced her lips open before she spoke, “It’s been close to nine months already since our ID cards were exchanged at the city hall. I’m ready to divorce Richard so that we can get married. That was the original plan, Xavier. Let’s get married.”

Each day that passed by, Michelle could feel her patience wearing off with Richard. She only wanted to be married to Xavier but the latter didn’t seem to want to give her what she wanted.

“I’m never going to get married to you, Michelle. So you should forget about that marriage,” Xavier spat in her face, immediately hurting her ego.

Michelle felt herself shrink back at Xavier’s words.

“In case you don’t understand the message I’ve been passing across to you, let me say it out loud then,” said Xavier turning to face her as he continued. “You and I are never going to get married, today, tomorrow, or in the future. If you want to divorce Richard, you can go ahead and do as you please. But I won’t repeat myself, Michelle. We are never getting married.” After saying what he wanted to say, he walked back inside the mansion.

Michelle stood frozen. She gripped her chest as if it was going to burst with how fast her heart was beating.

Tears streamed down her face uncontrollably as Xavier’s words repeated in her mind even though he was no longer there.

“This is not possible,” she mumbled to herself.

Months ago, after they found out that Xavier was back from his business trip, they tried to make him sign the divorce papers that Anastasia had already signed, but he would always make excuses.

If only they knew that he was just waiting for Anastasia to wake up so that she could tell him how she landed in the deep forest.

Michelle’s expression suddenly changed to that of someone who wanted to shed blood.

Selene’s image suddenly appeared in her mind.

“It’s all because of that woman, that slut,” Michelle said.

She had already gotten rid of Anastasia but Selene had to come out of nowhere and seduce Xavier.

“She’s gonna get it,” she forced through gritted teeth.

Wiping her tears away, Michelle made sure there wasn’t any kind of sign that showed she had just cried. When she confirmed it, she went back inside.

Dinner was ready.

Everyone took a seat while Xavier sat down beside Selene when he saw Richard walking towards the empty seat beside her.

Richard had to go sit down beside his wife who was still fuming internally.

The dining table was filled with happy talks while old Wallace tried to persuade Selene to consider marrying Xavier.

‘If only she knew that I was already married to Xavier and I’m her granddaughter-in-law,’ Selene thought to herself as she kept her facial expression neutral.

Old Wallace kept talking nonstop until her daughter-in-law, Xavier’s mother told her to stop else her blood pressure was going to shoot up.

The old woman obeyed her daughter-in-law and only spoke a few times until they finished dinner.

Selene didn’t have to look to know that Michelle was glaring at her which only made her wonder if Michelle didn’t know she was being so obvious.

“Is there a problem, Michelle?” Selene suddenly called her out.

“It’s nothing. I was just wondering if you would be going back to the shoot tomorrow, is your leg all better?” Michelle asked to cover up.

“I will be,” Selene replied.

After they finished dinner, old Wallace was taken away by Xavier’s mother so that she could take her medicines and sleep.

Xavier had to discuss something with his dad real quick. Michelle went upstairs, saying she needed to have something done, which left Selene to be alone with Richard.

Selene resisted the urge to puke when she made eye contact with Richard. The latter stared at her as if she was some meal he wanted to eat even though he just had dinner.

“So Selene, I heard that you are acting in the same movie as Michelle, are you two friends now?” Richard suddenly asked which had Selene frown slightly.

‘Why would he be asking me such a question?’ Selene wondered.

“We are friends,” she replied, getting up to move to another couch but Richard stood up as well and followed behind her.

He was so close to her that she thought he was going to glue himself to her any moment.

“So that means we can be friends right?” He asked, a smirk on his lips. “You are already friends with my wife and I don’t see anything wrong if we become friends as well,” he winked at her, licking his lips again.

“Mr Wallace, I don’t think there’s any reason we would need to be friends,” said Selene, wary of Richard.