The City Held Its Silence byIrel Knx 62

62 I wish I never married you 

I then heard footsteps from behind me approaching. Unfortunately, I was now going to have to deal with the aftermath of my slapping him. They were probably going to tackle me. I thought to myself. 

Keith turned to look at me with an indescribable expression on his face. My eye contact remained strong as I stared him down but swallowed hard. 

As the bodyguards‘ footsteps neared me, I waited for them to push me down or something. Keith, surprisingly, held his hand out and signalled for them to stop. The footsteps that had been drawing closer then slowly withdrew. Why had he stopped them? I thought to myself. It didn’t matter, because this was my chance to continue. 

“I’m sorry I wasn’t the emotional, fun wife you wanted Keith, there’s only so much you can get from an arranged marriage,” I told him. “Plus you never expressed this to me, before. What I can say is I did my best to stand by your side as your wife, as well as to raise Anthony. I always presented myself well so as not to embarrass the Acland name. Sorry if that was too boring for you or my lack of expressiveness irked you. I hope you now have what you’ve always desired.” 

It was taking an immense amount of effort to keep my voice level my bridal training was working over time. I wanted to cry but I didn’t want him to see my tears. He wasn’t worth seeing them. Since you think I’m so emotionless you jerk. 

Keith’s eyes widened at my outburst. I know I did my part as his wife and if that wasn’t good enough for him then fine. He had Diana now so good for him. 

Keith didn’t say anything as he continued to look down at me. So, I continued speaking. 

“I wish I never met you, Keith. I wish we never got married. Marrying you is the worst thing that ever happened to me. The only positive thing to come out of our marriage is my son,” I told him the truth of how I felt since he shared his true feelings as well. 

The expression on his face changed to one of shock and horror. He looked speechless. 

“The reason Diana can do whatever she wants and is able to toy with me is because of you Keith. The person I should be mad at is you. If it weren’t for you I wouldn’t have to go through all this!” I spat at him. 

I wouldn’t have had to suffer throughout my divorce process, all those times I went to 

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court and had a hard time due to her antics was your fault. I wish you had married Diana from the beginning I would have been spared from all of this. 

“I swear a deer crossing a road against traffic would probably have more awareness than you, Keith since you always want to believe Diana so much. Not once did you ever give me the benefit of the doubt. Not once did you ever try to hear me out and if I deserved to be treated like this because I was too emotionless for you then screw you!” 

“Jasmine-” his voice said sounding broken. 

“Keep that woman away from me and I never want to see you again either,” I interrupted him. 

“I’m leaving,” I then told him and turned away from him. 

“Jasmine wait,” he started. “I didn’t mean to say…” 

“It doesn’t matter Keith,” I cut him off. “It doesn’t matter anymore.” What’s done is done. Why was he trying to take it back when that’s how he clearly felt about me? 

I turned away from him once more and headed for the door. The bodyguards were still in the way. I looked back at him. 

“Keith,” I said his name. 

He stared at me for moment as if he wanted to say something more to me. I didn’t want to hear it though. Just let me go, Keith. Please. 

“Let her go,” he told his men after a moment. “Take her to Anthony and take them 

home.” 

Thank goodness I thought to myself. They opened the door and I walked out of the office one of the men lead the way to where Tony was. 

As we walked out of the office and down the hallway suddenly I felt a wetness on my cheeks trickle down. I brought a hand to my face to my cheek and looked at it. 

I was crying? I thought to myself. I had been holding myself back whilst talking to 

Keith. 

“Wait a moment I need to pass through the bathroom,” I told the bodyguard, I couldn’t move around like this. I couldn’t have Tony see me like this. 

Remembering where the toilets were I made my way there. As I turned into the next hallway I bumped into someone and almost lost my balance. 

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“Whoa there,” the person said as the held onto my shoulders to keep me from falling. “Ms. Towers it’s you.” A familiar male voice said. I looked up in surprise as I recognised 

the man. 

“Edward,” I said remembering Keith’s assistant. 

Edward looked like he was about to say more when he suddenly stopped as he studied my face. He realised I was crying. Great the last thing I wanted was for someone to see me like this. I quickly moved away from him and continued making my way to the toilet. 

“Ms Towers,” he called after me. 

I didn’t look back though. I reached the bathroom and immediately went the sink. Where I began washing my face in an attempt to remove the tears. 

I then closed the tap and looked into the mirror. The tears still continued to stream down my face. Why? Why can’t I stop myself as I looked into the mirror. 

Why were his words affecting me that much? Get it together I told myself. I’d never been in love never had a lover. Keith unfortunately was my first everything and unfortunately there was no love behind it. But that didn’t mean I didn’t yearn to be loved or to love. 

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