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Once The Contract Marriage was Over, I was Ready to Leave My CEO Husband Novel Cover

Once The Contract Marriage was Over, I was Ready to Leave My CEO Husband

After ten years of marriage to David Yates, Catherine discovers a horrifying truth: her young daughter Charlotte is being abused by David's bodyguard under the watchful eye of his pregnant first love, Jessica. Worse, David dismisses his own child as a mere mistake, prioritizing Jessica instead. Awake to his cruelty, Catherine decides to activate their decade-old divorce agreement. Securing a new job with Mr. Powell, she prepares to walk away in fifteen days, granting her billionaire husband the freedom he always wanted.
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Chapter 3

###Chapter 3

A burst of laughter almost overturned the roof.

Only one man stared at Jessica on David's legs and asked disdainfully, "Catherine had devoted a full ten years to you. You treated her like this for the woman who had abandoned you in the past. It was too heartless, wasn’t it?"

The next second, the man was hit hard in the face by David.

"I didn’t allow anyone to say that about Jessica! She had been forced to do it in the past. Her parents had married her to someone else, but she never consummated the marriage with that incompetent old man!"

Back then, David had no say in the Yates Family. He had had an elder brother with outstanding abilities. He had thought Jessica left because of jealousy.

But he hadn’t known that it was when Jessica found out that he was not the first heir of the Yates Family that she had left him without hesitation and went abroad.

After I had married David, in order to help him, I had accompanied clients to discuss business and drank so much that my stomach was perforated. I had attended every important meeting with a high fever and negotiated countless big deals.

I had even worked overtime for several weeks while pregnant, just to let him attend the international industry summit with a presentation ...

Over time, his parents had finally favored him. Ten years later, when he had finally taken control of the Yates Corporation business empire, she came back. And I was still just a bootlicker who came and went at his call, a complete joke in his eyes.

I felt a sharp pain in my chest and I instinctively hid in the corridor next to me. In order to protect Jessica, David had abandoned his usual calmness and his furious look with red eyes made everyone in the box dare not breathe.

Then, he picked up Jessica, who was crying in grievance and just as he reached the door, he stopped.

"None of you were allowed to say a word in front of Catherine!"

His voice was cold and firm as he said, "You must not let her know that the child in Jessica's belly was mine."

Then, he had hugged his crying mistress and left.

But where he couldn’t see, Jessica had cast a smug and arrogant look at me. I finally understood that the text message had been sent to me by Jessica on his phone so that I could see it all. I had walked on the street in a daze for a long, long time.

When I got home, I was stopped by Jessica in the corridor.

"Did you know? Every year on my birthday, he flew to accompany me just to give me a gift. Last year it was a Chanel necklace and the year before it was the latest limited edition Patek Philippe watch …"

"Those were all the styles I mentioned on social platforms that I liked and he actually remembered them all the time."

"But I had deliberately gotten angry with him and thrown those gifts to him directly. In the end, I could get something more valuable than them. This man’s hot, vigorous, sexy body and his heart that was always in love with me and couldn’t stop."

My fingers suddenly tightened and my nails sank deeply into my palm.

I remembered clearly that on those days every year, David had said he was going on a business trip abroad even though I didn’t see any arrangements on his work schedule.

Last year, he had brought a Chanel necklace. The year before, an expensive Patek Philippe watch …

I had been so happy that I put them all in my cabinet and couldn’t bear to wear them. But it turned out that he gave them to me after Jessica didn’t want them anymore.

Jessica continued to hurt my eardrums, "Also, eight years ago on Christmas, I had a big fight with my then-husband and he actually flew over overnight and stayed outside my house in the snow for a whole night."

I remembered that Christmas Eve. David had asked me for sex many times, contrary to his usual behavior and I had thought he finally started to fall in love with me.

When I woke up the next day, the pillow had already been cold and he had said he was on an urgent business trip and I hadn’t doubted it at all. It was also on that night that we had a daughter …

Now, I finally knew that David had forgotten to give me the contraceptive pill that day, just because he had been in a hurry to see Jessica?!

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