Billionaire, Let's Divorce! by BELLA

Chapter 0357

EMILY'S POV

The burden I'd been carrying for the past day seemed to have reduced on my shoulders because, now, it was out in the open and I'd confronted him.

No doubt, the pain was still there, raw and throbbing, but it was accompanied by a fierce sense of

liberation.

My eyes went to my closet on the other side of the room, which was filled with designer clothes and shoes. I was already beginning to calculate in my head how long it would take for me to pack all of my belongings; how many bags would I need to make sure left and left nothing behind?

Or maybe I could just walk out and leave everything behind. It would be so easy to just disappear and start fresh somewhere new where no one knew me as Adam's wife or as part of the country's elite.

But then, on another hand was the media frenzy that would undoubtedly follow the news of our separation. The gossip and speculations were always waiting in a corner, for the right time to be spread. Power Couple Splits,' would be a front page-worthy headline for sure.

People would talk, they always did. They liked to dissect other people's lives to look for signs they might have missed.

Maybe some would pity me.

Maybe others would blame me and say "She must have driven him to cheat," "Maybe if she'd been a

better wife..."

I shook my head as I felt some anger flaring up again. No. Fuck all of that. Fuck what people would say; fuck their judgments and their gossip. I was Emily fucking Cartwright before I became Emily Sinclair, and I'd be damned if I let fear of public opinion keep me trapped in a loveless and disrespectful marriage.

Just then, the shrill sound of my phone ringing cut through my thoughts.

I stared down at the device lying innocuously on the bed as its screen lit up with an unknown number.

it. I wasn't in the mood to deal with anyone right now, least of all a stranger. But something, intuition perhaps, made me reach for it. I swiped to answer, bringing the phone to

"Hello?"

purred, "Have you

none of your fucking business," I snarled into the phone and without waiting *for a response, I jabbed the end call button. "That

it

was contaminated.

and I already knew m who it was, almost rolling my eyes. I didn't have the energy for another confrontation. So I crawled

Adam's frustrated voice drifted

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to talk about this. Just hear

because the sound of his voice irritated

he possibly say to redeem

your back for years? Oops, my bad for making you

pleas, but I tuned it out. My mind was imagining all the ways I could make him suffer for what he'd

the knocking stopped. I held my breath, straining to hear if he was still out there. There was no sound. Did he give up already? Hell, he couldn't even

realize when I drifted off to sleep. But my last conscious thought must have been a vague hope that when I woke up, this

room was bathed in the golden light of late afternoon. For a blissful moment, I forgot everything but only for a few seconds, then I remembered again

a while, staring at the ceiling, and maybe trying to summon the energy to face the world. Then I threw

I turned the handle, cracking the door open just

was a box sitting directly in front of the

frowned. Was I

now checking the hallway in both directions. There was no sign of Adam

be done with it because it was probably some

was that part of me that was too curious for my own good. I wanted to know what was inside. What did he think was worth

bent down to pick up

make any noise when I shook