Revenge After Divorce by Black Rose

Chapter 0120 ETHAN Hearing my friend utter words like that stung. Sometimes we take things and people for granted. A few days ago, I was determined to take my friend's wife, well. Ex wife from him because I felt like he didn't deserve her, that he didn't appreciate her enough. All true but, I never stopped to think what he might be feeling.

Nick has always been bossy and acting like he had everything under control. Like life for him is not something that just happens, that he makes things happen and controls the variables. Because of all of that, I forgot that my friend was a person too, that he had feelings and got hurt. I knew Nick's anger very well and most of the tit was just that.

Unreasonable anger caused by business and nothing more. But I was starting to see a different side to the man. The human side he has been hiding well from all of us. The side that is vulnerable, the one that showed that the man also needed support, love and care. He fucked up big tand that is something he was not used to.

But he acknowledges that and is willing to put in the work to make things right. But how could he when I have been nothing but an obstacle in his way. Starting from the Week Olivia was released from prison and I was called to pick him up at the bar. When he let slip that he wanted her back.

How could he want her back after everything he did to her, everything he put her through? I couldn't let that happen. I thought she deserved better, that she deserved me, but boy, was I wrong. Marcus cinto play and showed us both how it's done.

I thought when Nick gave her the divorce papers that all I needed to do was to help her heal then make my move. But then things didn't happen quite like that. First, Olivia didn't want me, never did. Second, now more than ever I see how much Nick really loved his ex-wife. Now thinking back to when she was in prison.

The man worked all the time, day and night. I hardly saw him, never socialized and even lost weight. Now that I think about it, the man was depressed and I as his supposed best friend, missed it. I was busy helping his wife and was too angry to care about him and what he must have been going through.

The man sent his wife to jail because he thought he was givingjustice, because he thought it was my baby that psycho woman lost. He was thinking ofthat whole twas busy helping his wife and looking for a chance to be with her. what a friend I was. "Don't worry, I will go and be with him. I will take care of him, it's the least I can do." With a heavy heart, I got out of the car and followed him into the house. I found him with a bottle of scotch in hand and drinking from the bottle. I can't believe how selfish I have been this whole time. "Share." He handedthe bottle and I joined him on the kitchen island.

I swung the bottle taking a huge sip of the scotch. I was feeling like shit for what I had been doing to the man. I even helped sell that the boy was not his. I was such a shitty friend. I swung the bottle again gulping down as much as I could before handing it back to Nick.

He took it and drank from it as well. "Ethan, do you think she will ever forgive me?" he said that with the saddest voice I have ever heard. I had to turned to look at him to make sure that it was him who spoke. He glanced atbriefly and that was when I saw how red his eyes were. The man was crying. Tension gathered on my shoulders and my heart ached. "She will Nick, give her time." He hung his head low then his shoulders shook.

Shock hitwhen I realized he was crying. I didn't know what to do at that point. I knew he was hurting but I didn't know how much until then. "She will be married to someone else by then and I will never get her back. You can see how Marcus is, the man is good, and I know he will treat her well. She will never leave him for me, not after everything I put her through." I patted his back trying to comfort him, all he said was true and I didn't know what to say to make him feel better +20 BONUS Chapter 012C about everything. Not able to stand seeing my friend that way, I made up my mind. "I say fuck It! let's go after Marcus, combine our resources and give it all we got." He lifted his head and looked atfor a second.

"I appreciate what you are trying to do Ethan, but we can't go after Marcus, he is the man she chose and Ocan't Olivia deserves to be happy. I can't fuck up her life again man, I have done enough already. They say when you love someone or something. You have to let it go and if it comes back to you, then it was meant to be yours."

He said that with a straight face as if he was trying to convince himself of the nonsense he was spewing) "But this shit hurts so badly, why hasn't anybody said anything about how much love hurts?" I wished I knew but I have never been in love before, and I didn't know what it felt like

Yes, I had feelings for Olivia, would I call them love? No, I don't think so. I just like the woman's character, the way she carried herself and Π everything. "It's going to be alright, man." A knock cthrough the door, and we looked at each other wondering who that could be. While we were contemplating on whether to go open the door or ignore whoever it was and continue drinking. We heard the door opening then closing. Still looking at each other, none of us moved. It was clear whoever that was, had a key to the house.

Soon he appeared. We looked at him shocked. "What?" he said as he walked towards us, took the bottle from Nick and drank from it as if he was drinking water. Nick and I shared a looked. "Why the hell are you looking atlike that for? I also had a bad day and need a drink." Chapter 0121