I’m going to get a job…”
“No wife of mine is going to work,” he told her emphatically. “No fake jewels and no job. I will give you what you need.” With that, he decided that the conversation was over and he flipped his newspaper open again.
Sasha was finished being ignored. She stood up, ignoring his look of fury at her daring. “I’m getting a divorce, Damon. And I have plenty of ammunition to justify a divorce. I don’t want any money from you. I have my own money. As for a job, well, I’ve already been working so I have enough experience to start looking for a job on my own. There’s nothing you can do to stop me.”
“Where are you going?” he demanded when she started to walk away from him. “This discussion is not over.”
Sasha swung around, her eyes daring him to stop her. She was feeling more powerful today than she had in years and it felt wonderful! “No Damon. I’m not waiting for permission. Not any longer. I have a meeting down at the church in,” she glanced at her watch, “fifteen minutes. After that, my bags are already packed and I have a flight booked for later today. I will be leaving. Don’t try to stop me because there is nothing you can say to change my mind.”
“Are you meeting a man at the church? Do you have another lover?”
Sasha swung around again, almost laughing at his silly question. “Yes, Damon. I have a lover and we meet over at the village church. We have wild, crazy sex in the church!” Her eyes flashed at him. “Oh, and he’s such a great lover that I remained a…” she couldn’t say the word and felt her face flare with color once more, but she clamped her mouth shut, refusing to even say it. She’d been married for six years and she had been a virgin until last night. It wasn’t something she liked to think about.
“I have to go,” she told him and spun around on her heel, furious that he’d reduced her to sarcasm.
Damon watched his sexy wife disappear into the villa, stunned by the fire he’d seen in her eyes and more turned on by her temper than he wanted to admit. She looked beautiful all fired up and putting him in his place! He should go after her, he thought.
But for a long moment, he was too stunned to do anything.
Then her words struck him and, now that she was no longer in sight, his mind could function a bit more. She’d said there was nothing he could do and he almost chuckled at that challenge. There was always something he could do. He hadn’t gotten to this point in his business life without knowing how to get what he wanted.
Carefully folding the paper, he laid it on the table. Ignoring the breakfast that had been completely untouched by both of them, he moved into the villa, determined to find out what his wife had been up to for the past six years. She’d said some interesting things during her little tirade. Time to do a bit of investigating.
The first thing he found were her bags all packed up in the guest room. He called for one of the maids who was almost running down the hallway. “Unpack these suitcases,” he ordered of the timid woman. “They should all be hanging in the master bedroom by the time I look again.”
Dismissing the woman, he started opening drawers but found nothing. He knew that she had been sleeping in the master bedroom so he moved into that room next. There was nothing there but the lingering scent of her, which he realized he liked. A lot.
There was only one drawer in her closet that contained anything at all. And he was stunned by this discovery. Some of the boxes were still wrapped, some had been opened and the wrapping paper gone but the gift it contained was neatly tucked into the box. And even further down, was the loose jewelry that had obviously been worn at some point. His initial thought was that she’d been receiving gifts from some admirer. But as he looked at the tags