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“This.” He threw several pictures at her.
Lena snatched her face back as some of the photographs hit her cheek because she was upset by Kellen’s behavior. They crept down through the air and eventually settled around her feet.
He turned away from her as if she had hurt him. And Lena couldn’t help but feel her insides shake. Her instincts told her that a storm had come into her life with the goal of hurting the love she and Kellen had.
She bent down cautiously and reached out with shaking hands. When she picked up one of the pictures off the floor, she froze. Ryan, her best buddy, and she were kissing in the picture. Lena recalled this moment, but it wasn’t like this at all. The images were all expertly taken from the wrong angles, and some of them were definitely altered. But they were done so well that even Lena thought they were real.
Lena glanced up from the picture where she and Ryan were kissing and back into Kellen’s eyes. She was terrified out of her wits. The eyes that used to be full of love and affection for her were now full of hate.
And she realized that the love they used to brag about and the ideal connection they had would have to go through a test. At that moment, they were supposed to flunk the test.
It’s like believing a dream of yours is real when you don’t appreciate the good things in your life. You wake up one day and find out that it was all a dream. When the lovely dream breaks into pieces, you feel like you’re drowning in nothingness. At some point, even the sadness that comes with that emptiness stops hurting. And your lovely past turns into a series of blurry memories that are far away.
“Kellen, trust me.” Lena was horrified and peered into Kellen’s eyes. She looked for a little bit of faith in them, but there wasn’t any.
“You want me to trust you after all this?” Kellen said, pointing to the pictures on the floor. They poisoned his heart, breaking all the vows he had ever made to her and taking away the love they thought was stronger than anything else in the world.
Lena thought she would die from the sadness she felt within. It was hard to believe that this day had come when he would accuse her of anything like that. She cried tears of pain and shock as she realized what was happening. She had never believed he would question her commitment to him or embarrass her like this in her darkest fantasies.
But she loved him with all her heart and had to make him see the truth since it was evident that someone was trying to ruin their marriage. “Kellen—” she started, but the intense anger she saw in his blue eyes, the eyes she had fallen in love with, made her take a sudden, painful breath.
He made a low groan. “Don’t you dare say my name with that dirty mouth of yours?” His eyes were full of fury. He was breathing heavily and said, “I hate you, Lena. You make me sick. Tell me how long this has been going on. Ryan was in my house last week, right? Did you fu*k in our bed too? TELL ME. Damn it!”
“What are you even thinking? How can you say…” she said, but the words became stuck in her throat. Her voice shook, and her hands shook. “I never cheated on you, Kellen. Please believe me!” she begged.
But Kellen didn’t want to hear anything.
“So, it’s all a lie, right?” He said it in a contemptuous way.
“Of course it is. Can’t you see that someone is trying to break us up and frame me?”
But who knew this trap had more to it? She frowned as she saw Kellen push the screen of his right in front of her face. His hands were shaking a bit. “And this?” he asked. “Is this a lie, too? Say you didn’t meet this jerk?”
Lena stared. Someone had gone ahead and supplied pictures of her meeting Derek Holt, Kellen’s cousin, who wasn’t on good terms with the family. Derek was also Kellen’s biggest business opponent. The guy had attempted to be mean and get Lena to assist him in killing Kellen by offering her different things.
Kellen asked, “Did you meet him or not?”
She cleaned her cheeks, and a dull pain started in her brain. She had no motive to lie because she had turned down all of Derek’s offers, so she said, “He came up to me—”
“To have you steal the secret shareholder’s file of my company, right?” he cut in. He saw the shock on her face and laughed bitterly and regretfully.
“I never betrayed you,” she added, this time with a lot of confidence.
But it didn’t help, “But that file has been missing for a week now,” he said. “And someone has been giving Zeyracorp’s shareholders great deals to buy them out. Isn’t that interesting?” His voice broke at the end as he looked away from her as if the sight of her hurt him. “I thought you would be different. I really thought that. With all the people around me betraying each other and me, I thought you would be my only light. But I was wrong.”
Her lips shook.
Could she say or do anything to show that she was innocent of all the charges he was making against her?
When someone has already made up their mind, you can’t change it.
He was so far past the point of hearing Lena’s urgent cries, seeing the truth in her eyes, and trusting the love they shared that nothing could penetrate his heart anymore. Lena could see it. He was so angry and hurt by being betrayed that he couldn’t think straight. The love he had for Lena turned into never-ending anger.
Lena looked down at the medical paperwork she was holding. She felt too helpless and too startled to do anything. Kellen’s fiery stare followed Lena’s eyes, and that’s when he noticed the file she was holding. He took it before she could even say anything.
Lena saw him go through the paperwork, and his jaw tightened with rage. She still had a little hope in her heart, but her head was now shouting that the things that were broken would never be fixed. It was a hurricane that wouldn’t stop until everything was devastated. Kellen’s face twisted in wrath that no one could imagine, and he yelled at the broken soul that stood like a statue in front of him.
“So, who is the father?” he said with a sharp tone. “Ryan or Derek?”
Her stomach dropped. And that was a natural thing to do. Her hand went up to slap his face hard.
But she gasped as he moved quickly. He grabbed her by the arms in a heartbeat, and his hold hurt so much that she moaned in anguish until it was too much for her to handle. “I want nothing more than for you to leave my life right now. Take the bastard inside you away from me—” He growled down at her, “It hurts to look at your face anymore. It hurts to be near you anymore. You disgust me, Lena—you and every memory I have of you.”
He let go of her and pushed himself away from her body, and she staggered back. She could feel the edge of the bed strike the back of her knees. She sat back down on the mattress since she didn’t have any more energy in her legs. He gave her one final angry glance before storming out the door.
She fell into the bed, curled herself into a ball, and felt tears of pain pouring down her face. She held onto the blankets with shaking fists as if she was struggling to keep her sanity. It was too much for her to handle as her whole life fell apart in an instant. Her head hurt a lot, but her heart hurt the most. She never realized that a shattered heart could hurt so badly that it seemed like someone had stabbed her in the chest. It was too much to endure. No one should have to go through that, yet there she was, feeling it all.