After the Divorce: Crushed on My Lawyer Ex-wife

#51 “I Can’t Imagine Being With Anyone Else.”

Collecting herself, Sophia took a deep breath, her voice steady as she responded to him.

“I see that you have solved the puzzle,” Sophia smiles at him, but the smile does not reach her eyes. “It doesn’t change anything, Alexander. You didn’t visit me once in these three years and now you pretend that there was something between us. There is nothing to fix because there was never a real connection.”

Alexander sighed deeply, acutely aware of the gravity of the situation. “I know I was wrong, Sophia,” he began cautiously.

Sophia’s voice turned cold and distant. “You were not wrong, Alexander; you made a decision. Your decision is that you don’t want to know me or have anything to do with me. I accept it.”

“Sophia, that was before I knew you,’ Alexander pleaded, desperation creeping into his voice.

She let out a bitter laugh. “There were three long years in which I sat alone, waiting for you to get to know me. It’s late now. I suggest that the divorce, which was your idea, means that you don’t want to communicate, and that’s what we’re going to do.”

“I know I can’t change the past, but I can change the future. I want to make things right. Sophia, I didn’t even know your name or who you were all these years, and not that it justifies me, but…

Sophia interrupted him with a cutting remark. “You’re right; it doesn’t excuse you. Just like the fact that you now know who I am, and suddenly I’m useful to you, right?”

stunned by her

with you. She said, ‘For being a useless ex-wife, he has given you enough. What more do you want?’ And now you know that I am Sophia

that at all,” Alexander

countered sharply, her tone biting. You didn’t know who I was; you thought I was from a poor family, didn’t you? That I clung to you like a leech because I’m incapable of making money. This is where

obviously offended you. I never thought you were a leech,” Alexander insisted. Sophia wasn’t willing to let him off

to own, destroy competitors, and win new benefits. You’re a money machine. You will go through

react. He stared at her for a long moment, torn between feeling

you haven’t gotten to know me at all until now, Sophia,” he finally responded,

on earth should I bother trying to make you like me if I was just going to use you for my own purposes? You’re a lawyer; if I need your services, I’ll pay. It’s another matter that I got to know and like you, and I want to improve

our paths diverge, Alexander. Get another lawyer and don’t look for me for anything,” she declared, her

leave, Alexander grabbed her arm, desperation in his eyes. “What about the

undiminished. “Mistakes don’t make you moan,” Alexander retorted before

her back on him, walking towards her friend Evelyn. She hoped he didn’t see her face flush at

*

deep. The bartender’s concerned glances didn’t register as he continued to order glass after glass, each sip failing to wash

his moments of solitude

their marriage, failing in his role as a husband in every conceivable way. The guilt weighed on him, gnawing at his conscience

that they shared this trait in equal measure. It was one of the things he had always admired about her—the passion she exuded, her relentless