Chapter 4

“You’re drunk.”

Emma smiled.

“You know I’m drunk? Then why didn’t you come pick me up?”

“Ethan, you never used to leave me alone. If I wasn’t home by ten, you would call me over and over. Sometimes you’d even come get me yourself. Why don’t you care anymore?”

“Now you won’t even let me kiss you. Do you think we still look like a normal married couple?”

Do we look like a normal married couple?

Her question left me speechless.

Maybe we had never been a normal married couple from the beginning.

“Ethan, don’t reject me.”

I shoved her away and shouted, “Stop it!”

Emma stared at me in disbelief.

In all the years we had been married, I had never shouted at her like that.

She looked awkward and uncertain.

“What did you say?”

“I’m asking you to fulfill your duties as my wife, and you’re saying I’m the one making trouble? Ethan, have you ever considered my feelings?”

“How much longer are you going to keep making a scene?”

No matter what Emma did, it always somehow became my fault in the end.

“Right now, I feel nothing when I look at you. Please don’t make this harder for me.”

Emma angrily raised her hand as if she wanted to slap me, but I caught her wrist in midair.

“This is my home. Leave.”

She violently pulled her hand free.

“Ethan, remember what you said today. Don’t come crawling back to me later.”

After Emma left my apartment, she didn’t contact me for several days.

Once I had enjoyed a few days of peace, I prepared the divorce papers and packed my luggage for the business trip.

Then one of my closest friends suddenly called.

“Ethan, get to the Four Seasons Hotel. I saw Emma checking in with a foreign guy.”

“Does she not know the hotel belongs to you? How can she be this shameless?”

The hotel had been developed only a few years earlier. After quitting her job, Emma had stopped paying attention to anything related to my business, so it wasn’t strange that she didn’t know.

“Do you want to come see for yourself?”

“No.”

I had already imagined what might happen between her and that man. There was no reason to waste my time.

“You’re an idiot. This is evidence. If you divorce her, she’ll be the one at fault. Do you understand? I know you don’t care about money and only want a divorce, but you can’t just let this woman walk away with everything, can you?”

“If you’re not coming, give me access. I’ll handle it myself.”

“My friend, you absolutely cannot let yourself get screwed over like this.”

“Do whatever you want.”

I hung up.

A few minutes later, Emma, whom I hadn’t spoken to in a long time, suddenly called to confront me.

“Ethan, what do you mean by this? You’re sending your friends to spy on me now?”

“Do we not even have the most basic trust between us anymore?”

I remained silent for a long while.

Then a man’s voice suddenly came from her end of the call.