The maids were overjoyed when Serena opened the door. Their jobs were saved.
“Missus, you must be hungry. Dinner is ready.”
Serena said indifferently, “Don’t call me Missus. I won’t be your missus soon. Where’s Zack?”
Felicia naturally spoke up for Zack and said, “Missus, Mr. Zack had his difficulties when he lied to you. He’s downstairs now.”
“What difficulties does he have? He doesn’t have any hardships at all. He was on guard against me and didn’t trust me, so he treated me like I was a thief!” She knew how he had misunderstood her and had his walls up against her.
Back then, she did not care because she was not in love with him.
Now that she was, she cared after learning the truth. Her heart clenched in pain.
When she thought about the recent time spent together and his affection toward her, her heart felt even more painful, and her fury was reignited too.
Was his adoration fake? Was it part of his deception too?
Her neck still hurt a little.
That jerk!
Zack York was a jerk!
Felicia and the others were silent.
All of them were cognizant of Zack’s web of lies to Serena from the beginning.
“Do any of you have an Apple charger? My phone is out of battery. Lend me a charger for a while.”
Felicia was about to reply when her colleague next to her nudged her lightly. She snapped back to her senses and quickly said, “Mr. Zack has a phone of the same brand. You can borrow a charger from him.”
Their discreet movements did not go past Serena’s eyes.
She knew that without Zack’s consent, she would not even have the chance to charge her phone.
Was Zack going to completely lock her up in this villa and forbid her from contacting the outside world?
Did he think he could keep her by doing so?
He could keep her body, but he could not keep her heart!
Serena did not talk to the maids anymore and went downstairs with the divorce agreement.
While descending, she saw Zack sitting on the sofa. He was holding his cell phone and seemed to be messaging someone.
When he heard her footsteps, he immediately put the phone back into his pocket and quickly got up to greet her.
“Honey.”
“Don’t call me Honey!”
Serena’s expression was as dark as charcoal again.
There was no helping it. Her expression turned bitter whenever she saw him now
“Seren.”
Zack corrected himself. “You must be hungry. Let’s have dinner.”
He reached out for Serena’s hand, but she avoided him.
She went past him and straight to the couch, then put the written divorce agreement on the coffee table and said coldly, “This is what I wrote. Take a look and sign it if there’s no problem.”
“What is it?”
Zack came over and glanced at it, and his face changed dramatically. He suddenly grabbed the paper and tore it to pieces without even looking at it. He yelled, “I won’t divorce! Don’t even think about divorcing me! You’re mine in life, and you’ll still be mine in death! We’ll live and die together!
“I’ll never divorce you! You won’t be able to leave me unless you stab me to death. and step over my corpse!”
Serena glared at him angrily.
If looks could kill, he would have been killed by her countless times.
“You’re simply unreasonable. There’s no way to communicate with you!”
“Yes, I’m unreasonable. And yes, there’s no way to communicate with me. Bottom line is, you’re my wife. You’ll only be my wife in your life. You’ll never get rid of me!”
Serena gnashed her teeth in anger.
If she continued to talk to him, she was afraid she would grind her teeth into dust.
It was infuriating.
She turned around and left, unable to talk about the divorce now. She did not even want to talk to him.
“Serena!”
Zack reached out and grabbed her arm. He yanked her back into his arms forcefully and lowered his head to kiss her frantically.
“I’m sorry. I’m sorry, Serena…”
Serena struggled and finally managed to push him away, but he wanted to continue. She was so angry that she swung her hand at him.
The slap resounded across the room and shocked Brandt and the maids.
Zack was also stunned.
He looked at Serena’s face, which was red from the anger within. When she glared at him, her eyes gradually reddened, and he saw tears brimming at the corners of her eyes.
He had again brought her more pain and further angered her.
Zack blamed himself.
He thought his warmth could make her calm down…
Brandt snapped back to his senses and hurriedly sent a message to Sam since the latter was the actual butler here. Brandt was only filling in for Sam since Sam was on leave, but he felt he could no longer handle the situation here. He had to call Sam back.
It was frightening. The missus actually raised her hand against Mr. Zack.
This was a scene they had never witnessed in all the years they had worked for the
Yorks.
The men of the York family had always doted on their wives. As long as they were. married and the couple’s feelings were stable, they would get along lovingly. Occasionally, there would be small quarrels or misunderstandings, but they were all resolved quickly. No one had ever gotten physical like the missus.
“Seren.”
Zack pulled up the hand Serena used to hit his face with and asked gently, “Does your hand hurt?”
Serena wrenched her hand back and turned her face away, but she raised her hand to rub her eyes. She then turned around and looked at him again, saying, “I’m sorry, Zack, but please leave me some dignity, okay?”
She did not like it when he forced a kiss on her whenever she was angry; as if showing no ounce of respect for her.
Zack looked at her deeply.
He lost it. When he saw the divorce agreement she drafted, he momentarily exploded in rage.
Yes, he was wrong for lying to her, but she went as far as to draft a divorce agreement. He only grew impulsive because she was not giving him any leeway.
“If you have an affair, use violence on me, or lie to me countless times, I’ll leave you,” -that was what Serena said before.
Only at that moment did Zack realize that Serena was a woman of her word.
“Zack, we’re both a mess now, and neither of us is calm. Please let me leave so we can take a breather, okay? Is there a point in you putting me under house arrest? You’ll only anger me further.
“You’re overbearing. You’re always so self-centered and inconsiderate of others.
Think about it. If our roles were reversed, if I was the one who lied to you for more than four months, how would you feel? You lied to me, but you’re not even allowing me to get angry? Am I supposed to pop confetti to celebrate your deception?”
Serena felt it was Zack’s nature to be overbearing. It would be a Sisyphean task to make him change this part of him.
Now, his domineering trait and paranoia were suffocating her.
“Divorce is not an option!”
Zack added in a low voice, “Seren, I didn’t say I was right in deceiving you, and I’m not forbidding you from getting angry. Hit me or scold me, but you can’t just bring up divorce to me.
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