Chapter 60
The document in my hand had stopped the celebration cold.
Then Freya snapped, “Jonas, are you out of your mind? It’s my mom’s birthday! Even if we’ve been having issues, how could you do this- here, in front of everyone?!“}
“You think I crossed a line? Stop lying to yourself, Freya. Whatever we had–it’s been dead for a long time. You know it as well as I do.” There was no anger left in me. Years ago, I might’ve shrunk back, apologized, tried to explain myself. That version of me had long since died.
I’d spent so many years walking on eggshells around her and the entire Weiss Family. All that patience, all that effort… it led to nothing but cold shoulders.
it was time to end this.
Freya’s face twisted with emotions, until she snapped again. “Jonas! I can’t even look at you right now. You disgust me. You’re pathetic.” “Disgusting?” I let out a cold laugh, then raised my voice so the entire room could hear. “Is it more disgusting than you bringing another man into our home? Sleeping with him in our bed–our wedding bed? Is that not disgusting enough for you?“}
I had never spoken like that in this house. Never pushed back. Never raised my voice. But this time, I didn’t hold back–and it hit her hard.§ Freya staggered back a step. Her assistant quickly reached out to steady her, but her face was drained of all color.
I didn’t look at her again. Instead, I turned to Anne, still holding the divorce papers in her shaking hands.§
She hadn’t expected this–hadn’t expected me to blow it all open. The truth about her daughter’s affair.} Anne’s hands trembled in fury.
I then voiced a deliberate question. “Well? I’d think you’d be happy. Isn’t this what you always wanted?“} “Shut your mouth!” Anne couldn’t hold back any longer, she shouted at me.
She cared deeply about her pride. Today, I had humiliated her in front of everyone. I slapped her face with that divorce agreement and also exposed her daughter’s scandal. I left her with utter embarrassment.
“Jonas, I’m ordering you to take back that divorce agreement!” Anne’s face was tight with anger as she barked the command, just like she always did.
In the past, for Freya’s sake, for our son, for the family, I would have obeyed. I would have tried to tolerate this woman who looked down on me so openly.
But not anymore.”
I took a step back and ignored her demand. That’s when Freya’s sister, Mana, suddenly stepped forward. She snatched the divorce papers from Anne’s trembling hands.
Rip.
She tore the agreement in half right then and there.
“You’re just an in–law we barely tolerate,” Mana spat. “Even if my sister cheated, it was her who dumped you. You have no right to ask for a divorce!”
Rip, rip.
Mana shredded the papers into pieces and then turned to me, shouting, “I’m ordering you to apologize–right now–to my sister and my mother!”
Slap!
I wasn’t about to take her bullying anymore. Without hesitation, I slapped her hard.
Mana covered her cheek, stunned and unable to believe what had just happened. That slap had been building up inside me for a long time Z
When Freya and I first decided to get married, Mana was the one who looked down on me the most. She openly mocked me in front of everyone. But for love–and because Freya was already pregnant–I kept quiet and endured it.M
What I couldn’t stand, though, was the time my mother first visited the Weiss Family estate and Mana shamelessly humiliated her in public
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