Stuck in a Prison called Marriage

ATHENA’S POV

I never knew that in the entirety of all the times that Nero had hated me, I would ever side with him. But here I was with tears in my eyes, nodding in agreement to what he had just said.

“We all know that I would never love her. I would never get intimate with her, which means there would be no heir so why don’t you both do us a favour and end this hell hole called marriage. Because let me tell you I won’t go easy on her just because you said so. And if she dies, her blood will be on both your hands and I wouldn’t give a damn about it.”

The way that he spoke and kept his eyes locked on mine, I expected to break down from it and I would have, but I didn’t. Even though every word did what they usually did best, cut through me. My broken heart was too hurt that it was numb to his words afterwards.

I dropped on my knees as I continued to cry. I felt like this was my only chance to actually get them to agree to the divorce even though it was the first time in a while he was m