Winning Back His Ex's Wife's Broken Heart by Hayley

Chapter 01

Sarah's

POV

"Hello Mum, how are you doing?" I asked, genuinely wanting to think about anyone else but myself. My current situation in my marriage was weighing me down. Being in a loveless marriage or at least where the love was one-sided was a pain in the ass. I had to struggle every day to be noticed by my husband.

Granted our marriage had been a contract marriage - an agreement between his father and my grandfather -, with no promise of love but yet I found myself yearning for my husband to notice me. Richard had always been my crush right from high school but he had just never noticed me, always been too cool from day 1 to notice the nerdy girl in the corner. Even though I was more girlish now with curves and a D-sized cup, he still didn't see me. I guess it was once a nerd, always a nerd. "Sarah?"

Mum's voice pulled me out of my thoughts and I sighed. "I'm sorry Mum, what were you saying?"

"Are you okay? You sound worried." Sometimes her ability to read me even from far away was scary but that was one of the many things I loved about her. Lucia Williams was the perfect blend of sweet and spicy, a disciplinarian with an air of sweetness and a tender heart.

"Honestly, no." Then I proceeded to tell her about how things were. Starting from our wedding night when I thought he would at least touch me and I had been bursting at the seams with nerves. I didn't have to be so worried, he didn't even spend the night at home.

end and then another before letting out a sigh of my own. I was honestly getting tired of being stuck in this unfavorable arrangement. Going into it in the place had seemed pleasant because I had feelings for Richard and thought with time, he would feel something for me as well. Perhaps I had been binging too much on those romcoms on Netflix. But was it such a big ask for my husband to

I was no longer the shy little nerd I was in high school, I still wasn't the girly woman either. The only thing that had changed had been

what you'll do." I listened closely as she instructed me on what to do to save my marriage while I gobbled it up. I

now. Will call you when I get to

the store, I speed-dialed Mum and waited for her to answer the call while I eyed the different aisles of lingerie and underwear. One of the shop attendants walked up to me with her

she nodded, an air of confidence

call me Laura,

handful of see-through things that seemed like they wouldn't cover anything but I guess that was the whole point. "I will be out here if you need anything." She announced

Thank God.

just headed for the

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should cook Richard a nice meal. I had done it once before but after he didn't even so much as look at it, I stopped and left the cooking to Rafael, the Italian chef

of me. The worst thing that could happen now was that he wouldn't show up or he would show up and he wouldn't eat. Frankly, I wasn't too hopeful and that