Revenge After Divorce Novel by Black Rose

OLIVIA

The next day, I called Ethan to come over to my house, but he refused. He said if I wanted to meet with him then I would go to his house. Which I found fair. I told Marcus and he wanted to go with me. He and I were the reason Ethan was acting that way and going to meet with him together and apologize was a good idea.

"Do not expect me to be nice, I will apologize but I will also tell him what I don't like about his behaviour and him threatening us like that." I also didn't expect him to bow his head to another man. I expected him to apologise for his wrongdoing.

Ethan was not an unreasonable man, but I believed he was going to be difficult this time as we were the cause of his relationship failing. We were current on the road driving to his house, Nick and my dad were looking after the kids.

"Stop the car." Marcus looked at me confused. "I see Lupita!" Marcus stopped the car; I got out and called her name. "Lupita." She was about to get into her car. She stopped and turned my way.

She looked so beautiful wearing a business suit. I waved at her smiling; I took a step towards her, but she opened her car and got in driving off. I stood there disappointed. I didn't know she wanted nothing to do with me not even to greet me when she saw me on the road.

“Come on babe, lets go.” Marcus said. I got into the car feeling hurt, my dad was right, my behaviour was costing me my friends and the closest people to me. I got into the car and my husband drove off.

"Am I that bad?" seriously, if Lupita whom I had known for years was not even willing to acknowledge me on the road, then that mean I was worse than I thought. Which made me wonder why the men close to me were obsessed withnoveldrama

me.

There was nothing good about me, or were they so used to me that they thought my behaviour was normal and acceptable. That could have been the case.

"Nothing is wrong with you, and you are not bad at all. Lupita might still not be ready to face you yet but that doesn't mean there is something wrong with you." He was my of course, he was going to say something like that.

"Ethan is the second person I am having a falling out with, the second person who has been there for me through hard times and the second person I have neglected and taken for granted. Tell me how am I a good person if my friends keep saying otherwise?"

I could not keep ignoring it anymore, I was the problem, and I was losing people because of it. "Olivia..."

"No, don't try to make me feel better, right now, I want to know my blind spots, things that I am not aware of that I do. Things that hurt my friends because most

of them I do without realizing they are hurting the people I care about."

I paused sighing, the whole thing was weighing down on me. "All of us have our blind spots Marcus and if those closest to us don't point them out, then we will continue to hurt others without realising. I have already lost Lupita because of them, and I must have done the same to Sandra and that is why she ended up resenting me. I don't want that to happen with Ethan as well."

I was tired of being treated like an egg that was going to break, them tiptoeing around me as if the truth was going to break me. We got to Ethan's house before Marcus could respond to me.

We got out of the car and went to knock on the door. Ethan opened wearing shorts and a vest. He just looked at us and walked back into the house. Marcus and I followed him to the lounge. He was watching football.

"Can I get something to drink?" I felt like my whole mouth just went dry, I didn't know how the talk was going to go, and I was getting nervous. "You know where everything is, get it yourself." I felt like he was trying to show us who was calling the shorts.

"I will get it." Marcus got me water and a beer for himself. We sat there not knowing what to say or how to start the conversation. The silence was too much and if the tv was not playing then I didn't know how awkward everything would have been.

"Ethan, I came here to apologise, not only for the way I treated Emily but for how I treated you as well. You were right, I did forget where I came from, I forgot you and for that I am sorry."

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He glanced at me. "Are you not going to apologize for threatening me to using our son?" I shook my head in the negative. He raised an eyebrow. "I never used our son to threaten you, Marcus did andthat was wrong. I won't speak for him; he is here, and he can speak for himself."

Marcus shook his head. "I will not apologise as if we are women man, I was wrong

to use Samuel, I admit that but would you and Nick have gotten the help you need if I didn't use him?"

Ethan chuckled. "You are right, we wouldn't have but there is no need to use now, he is still my son and for the mere fact that I only visit and not staying with him like

I should be. should make the both of you grateful."

I didn't say a word, there was no need to. "I know that man and no one stopped you from visiting. Well, I know I did before and from now on, I will not tell you when to visit, you can do that whenever you want to but man, you have got to stop cursing like that."

Ethan looked at him as if he was annoyed. "Why would I stop when I can see that is the only language you and your wife understand?" I wasn't stunned anymore, clearly it as because this time I listened.

"About Emily..."

"Don't talk about Emily, you managed to chase her away as if I am your boyfriend and she was some side chick wanting to take your man."