Sebastian’s lips thinned into a tight line. “You’re becoming quite the sharp-tongued woman, Natalie,” he said with a cold smile. “Playing the perfect lady for me, while smiling like a sunflower for other men.”
Natalie was speechless. “You seem to have forgotten what you told me on our wedding night. You said you needed a docile wife, a Mrs. Griffith who wouldn’t bring shame to your family. So I suppressed all my passions and became exactly that.”
“Looking back, I was such a fool. Love isn’t about losing yourself; it’s about learning to love yourself more. Because of one thing you said, I twisted myself into someone I wasn’t.”
“I became miserable. I admit, for the past two years, I was possessed, completely devoted to you. The only reason I ever fought with you was because Joanna would constantly send me pictures of you two together—intimate, kissing photos—just to provoke me. I was just trying to get you to pay a little more attention to me.”
“But every time, you accused me of starting drama, of being unreasonable, of competing with Joanna over everything.”
“Did any of you ever stop to think about my side of it? I was an innocent party in all this. Why did your love story have to be built on my pain?”
“If it weren't for that little drama Joanna staged the other day, and the slap you gave me that finally knocked some sense into me, I’d still be trapped in that vortex.”
“So, Sebastian, I really, truly will not disturb your perfect love story any longer.”
Natalie laid it all out, everything that needed to be said. She didn’t expect him to believe her; she just wanted him to sign the papers and get out of her life.
Sebastian’s hands, resting on his knees, clenched so tightly his knuckles turned white.
“Natalie, who told you I kissed Joanna?” His voice was strained. He had never touched another woman in his life. He was completely clean.
Natalie found his denial laughable. “Are you playing the innocent victim now, Sebastian? Can’t even own up to what you’ve done?”

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