Page 48 of Always A Villain
“The onlypatheticone here is you. Not even Axe wants you.” He slams a document onto the desk, and through my blurry vision, I see it clearly—a divorce agreement signed by Axe.
My heart shatters, dropping to my feet in jagged pieces.
“No,” I whisper, voice breaking. “He wouldn’t sign this.”
“He doesn’t want you. No one does.”
Shaking my head, I shove the paper away. “Stop. Axe wouldn’t do that.”
“You were never enough. And now you are nothing.”
“No...”
“You have no honor. No loyalty. You’ve broken your vows, disgraced the Valentine family.”
I hear the final blow before he even speaks it.
“You’re not welcome here.”
It knocks the breath from my lungs.
“Daddy, please.”
“Leave.”
“I can’t,” I whisper. Where am I supposed to go if even Axel doesn’t want me?
His eyes darken, fists curling at his sides. The explosion comes fast, brutal.
“GET OUT!”
I barely have time to brace before his backhand collideswith my face. The crack rings through the room. The sting of his ring tears my cheek open, blood dripping down my face as I stumble, crashing to the floor.
“You’re nothing but a worthless fucking whore, just like your mother,” he spits.
The room tilts. My ears ring.
I turn to Spencer, my voice small, shattered.
“Spencer?”
He doesn’t look at me.
Doesn’t move.
The silence is worse than the pain. Worse than the blood.
Dad’s command is final. “Victoria. Get the fuck out of my office. NOW.”
Tears blind me. The humiliation burns. I have nothing left.
I scramble to my feet and run.
My breath comes in broken gasps as I race through the hallways, hoodie pulled tight over my head, desperate to hide the evidence of my shame.
The pain inside me is so much worse—bone-deep, gut-wrenching.
He divorced me.
