Chapter 3

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I had planned to finalize the divorce while Selena was still in custody.

However, she was released after only three days.

She had signed an agreement with the company, promising to return all the funds within two weeks.

I was in the middle of packing my bags when she and Zachery showed up at the front door with a group of friends.

Zachery was the first one to stomp inside. He kicked over my neatly packed suitcase.

Then, he pointed a finger at my face and started screaming.

"Hudson, Selena suffered so much in that holding cell! We were all worried sick about her."

"You're her husband, yet you haven't said a single kind word. Now you're trying to divorce her? You're so cold-hearted, I hope you get hit by a car!"

I looked at the fuming man and kept my voice level.

"If she hadn't stolen that money to pay your gambling debts, she wouldn't have suffered at all."

The room went dead silent. The friends behind them looked at each other, clearly shocked.

Selena glared at me, her eyes dripping with disgust.

"Is that why you won't help me? Are you doing this to get back at me?"

I laughed coldly.

"It's not about revenge. I'm just not helping you. I have no interest in funding my wife's boy toy."

In my previous life, after I cleared her debt, Zachery had the nerve to brag to my face.

"Hudson, I heard you sold your precious patents just to save me. I really should thank you."

"Maybe I'll show my gratitude by taking extra good care of your wife tonight."

I had been so angry back then that I got into a fistfight with him.

But Selena had slapped me several times for it and stayed away from home for two weeks.

In the end, I was the one who had to beg Zachery for an apology just so she would come back.

Thinking about how pathetic I was, I felt a wave of self-loathing.

Even now, after I laid the truth bare, Zachery still tried to flip the script.

He looked me in the eye and lied through his teeth.

"You're full of crap! You're the one who told Selena your new project was short on cash. You pressured her into taking that money."

"Now that the police are involved, you're throwing her under the bus and blaming me?"

Selena stepped forward and slapped me across the face. Her eyes were red as she played the victim.

"Hudson, I helped you because I loved you. I never expected anything in return."

"But how could you lie about me and Zachery just to save your own skin?"

The friends in the room started looking at me differently. The whispers began again.

"Hudson, if this is your fault, you have a responsibility to fix it for her."

"Yeah, if Selena goes to prison, how are you going to live with yourself?"

I pushed my tongue against the inside of my cheek where she had hit me.

I looked up and caught the smug look in Selena's eyes.

She really thought she could bully me into paying for her mistakes.

I scanned the room, looking at every single person there.

"Don't worry. Even if Selena rots in a cell, I'll sleep like a baby."

"Also, our divorce hearing is next week. You're all welcome to come and watch."

I grabbed my suitcase and walked out the door without a second thought.