"Oh, is it done?"Sitting outside Vivi's room, Bryan was quite surprised when the door opened. Darren walked out with a blank stare while Vivi's crying could still be heard from inside the room."What's wrong?" Bryan asked as he held Darren's arm and made him stop walking. "Vivi's still crying. Are you just going to leave her?""It's done," Darren said in a weak voice while his eyes looked at Bryan with a look that still seemed blank."What's done?" Bryan asked, confused because he didn't understand what Darren was saying."Our marriage. I'm getting a divorce." Darren said, which made Bryan's eyes widen. Even though what had happened with Vivi was very bad, Bryan had not expected them to make the decision to divorce so quickly."Hey, why all of a sudden– Darren! Are you just going to leave?"Darren ignored Bryan's words and walked away, leaving Bryan calling out to him to come back and talk about it properly.But Darren felt that there was nothing left to talk about with Vivi. Everyth
"I fell in love with the only person who visited me in that apartment. My contract husband, who paid me to cover his secret relationship, I foolishly fell in love with him from the beginning of our marriage and was heartbroken the whole time." Vivi's explanation certainly surprised Lucas. All this time, he had been completely unaware of it. Whether it was because Vivi was very good at hiding it from him or because he was insensitive, Lucas didn't expect Vivi to have such feelings for him. When he thought about it now–about how often he talked about Freya or how he always praised her to Vivi–Lucas felt that he had become very cruel to Vivi. "I really don't know," Lucas said. He was filled with regret and guilt at the thought of how much pain Vivi had endured during their marriage because he had been completely insensitive to her feelings. "If I had known earlier, I would have–“ "I would have ruined everything." Vivi interrupted Lucas' speech with a faint smile. "I was paid to cover
"Vivi..." Darren called his wife's name in a weak voice full of regret and pain. He missed Vivi as if he hadn't seen her for years.Darren wanted to take a step towards Vivi, to embrace her body and release his longing. But her cold look made his legs seem glued to the ground. He couldn’t move, even though he tried his best to get to Vivi."You promised me all that, and I trusted you. I trusted you with my happiness and future, but look what you have done to me..."Vivi stuck to her words and managed to make Darren's tears flow again when he saw what had happened to the woman.Darren saw his tie, which Darren used to bind Vivi's hands when he punished her, slowly begin to bind Vivi's hands.Wounds, swellings, bruises, tears, and blood all slowly coming out of Vivi's body. From the places where Darren's hands had injured her.The slap marks, the whip marks, the messy hair, the lips bleeding from the bite. Darren sees Vivi crying in pain, but the sound of his crying is even more painful
"Welcome, Mr. Hart. It is truly an honor to receive you here."Darren's arrival at the clinic of one of the best psychiatrists in Europe is warmly welcomed, but Darren still feels a nagging sense of unease as he steps into this place.His ego felt like his pride was being trampled when it came to asking a psychiatrist to help him with his mental problems.But Celine, the middle-aged psychiatrist who would treat Darren, seemed to realize that because she said, "It must have been difficult to decide to come to this place. But now that you're here, you've taken the first step, which is good for you.""I don't know what kind of turmoil to tell you about. I don't know where to begin. Because when I think about where all this guilt comes from, it feels like my birth was a mistake," Darren said."How about you tell me about your childhood first? About the biggest fear you had and how you overcame it. You can tell me anything."Darren was silent, letting his memories take him back in time. To
"Wow, it's all spicy food today," Vivi said after looking at the boxes of food Lucas had brought for their dinner." Can you eat spicy food like this? I see you rarely eat spicy food.""I don't like spicy food, but I can still eat it. This is your favorite food, right? I used to see this box of food in the trash in our apartment," Lucas said."Yes, that is my favorite restaurant. I can order food from this restaurant three or four times a week. The food is delicious," Vivi said as she placed the vegetables she had taken out of the box on Lucas' plate. "This salad is so good."It had been a week since Vivi had moved into her new apartment. And since the first day of moving, she had never had dinner alone. The apartment building was on the street where Lucas used to work, so the man came by every day with food to eat with Vivi."Ah... I'm so full. I can't remember the last time I ate this much," Lucas said as he patted his stomach, which felt very full after he finished his meal."It's g
"My decision will never change. I hope you'll take care of the divorce soon so our relationship doesn't continue to hang like this," Vivi said."Even if I change?" Darren asked."You may change, but you always return to your true character in the end. I've given you many chances, and it's always the same. It always repeats," Vivi said."I'm really going to change, Vivi!" But Darren didn't want to give up so easily. "I visited a psychiatrist in London and had regular therapy. It's nothing compared to the pain you endure while being treated for what I did, but it's..."Darren hung up and closed his eyes. Because just remembering what he went through during his visit to the psychiatrist could make him very sad."I had to dig up all the bad memories I had buried under years of ego and hubris just to cover up what had been buried," Darren said. "I was hypnotized back to a childhood I never wanted to remember. A time when I desperately needed love, but no one gave it to me."Vivi didn’t inv
After returning from Vivi's house, Darren could not sleep all night because he was too worried about what kind of decision she would give him regarding their marriage. Even though they had made out last night and Vivi had slept in his arms, Darren was unsure if Vivi would accept him back because she told him to go home.According to Darren, if Vivi wanted to return to him, she wouldn't tell him to leave. Just like him, she would like to stay by his side and never want to be separated again, not even for a moment.And the bad feeling Darren felt was proven when he received a message from Vivi this morning. A message that strangely didn't surprise him at all because he already had a feeling for it, but it still broke his heart into a million pieces."Vivi..." In the luxurious room that witnessed how Darren and Vivi had gone through various things in their relationship, from the sweetest to the hottest, Darren's body collapsed on the floor because he could not bear the burden of pain att
"Can't you please give him another chance? Because look at you now, Vivi. This breakup has only made you as broken as Darren."Vivi didn't react to Bryan's words and stared at the man. Eventually, tears fell from her left eye, followed by others that quickly trickled down her face."Oh, Vivi..." Bryan reached out and took Vivi's body into his arms. Seeing Vivi crying silently with a look that clearly showed how broken her heart was, Bryan regretted saying everything to Vivi."I'm sorry," Vivi whispered."No, Vivi. I should be the one to apologize. I could only see everything from the surface without knowing what you feel in your heart. I'm sorry that I dared to tell you all this and make you sad again," Bryan regretted."I love Darren. I'm really in love with him," Vivi said in a stammering voice because her crying had not stopped. "And if we stay together, the fear he gives me will eventually make me hate him. I don't want that, Bryan. I don't want to hate a man who has loved me so m