Unfaithful: Web Of Betrayal

She stormed into Declan’s private office with a piece of letter in her hand.

With one look on her face, Declan knew she had received the news. He was in a middle of a discussion with his junior manager, but all eyes were on Sienna who completely shifted the mood in the room.

“What is this?” her eyes were bulging, her face pale with shock and anger.

“Could you excuse us for a moment?” Declan calmly asked his junior manager to leave the room.

“You can’t do this to me, Declan!” she threw the letter on his desk as Declan closed the door and locked it.Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

He closed his eyes for a brief moment before he turned to face her. He was prepared. “I have to.”

“Bullshit!”

His office was not soundproof, not when she screamed so loudly. Everyone in the office knew about their relationship, no one dared to say anything.

“You’re the CEO of this whole goddamn chain of your family’s own company! You don’t have to do this!”

“That’s exactly why I have to do this, Sienna,” he let out a long exhale and threw himself on the chair. “My whole family knows about this … and my wife,” he pressed the bridge of his nose.

He hadn’t slept much from fighting with Olivia, begging her forgiveness, calming her down, and promising her a better husband, a changed man. He had to take the necessary measure and eliminate the core of the problem, he sent an official letter to demand Sienna’s resignation from the company.

“You coward! What am I supposed to do? Where should I go? You used me … and now you’re getting rid of me like this? Like I don’t mean anything to you?”

“I will recommend you to a company in Chestnut … the CEO is a good friend of mine, not that you need any recommendation because your portfolio speaks for itself … but I can give it to you for the salary consideration.”

“Chestnut? You’re kicking me back to my hometown?” she was horrified. “Are you out of your mind?” she was on the verge of crying.

Declan couldn’t look at her in the face, “I have to Sienna, believe me, … this is for the best … for everybody.”

She covered her mouth with one hand, the other was holding her head. She had to sit down to take it all in. Her life was about to change drastically overnight because of this one person. The person she thought she had fallen in love with for the past two years, whom she thought had loved her just the same.

“I thought you were unhappy with her … I thought I made you happy … but you choose her over me … how could you betray me like this when I would give up everything for you?” her eyes were red and wet, her head was spinning, her heart burning.

Declan walked over and kneeled in front of her. He was the most hated person in the lives of the two women he loves. “I never planned to fall in love with you, but I did … this is hard for me as it is for you … but we are in the wrong here … we have to make this right.”

“By getting rid of the other woman?” she chuckled between her sobs, her tears dripping off her face from her swollen eyes, “Don’t pretend to be so righteous with me … I know you, Declan, you wouldn’t do this if she hadn’t found out about us … but I thought you’d finally choose to leave her when she does … I guess the joke’s on me.”

He shook his head. Whatever he says would never make any difference, everyone hates him. “I screwed up … I just want to get something right.”

“Right by her? What about me?” she cried. “What about me? What about what I’ve done for you? What we had together? You’re not doing anything right if you’re making the person who loves you feel like trash! Trash that you discard as soon as you get caught by your wife!” she wailed.

“It’s not like that, you know that … I’ll take care of you … I will recommend you to a good company with a better salary, I’ll take care of all the expenses, whatever you need to get you to settle back in Chestnut … I’m not discarding you, Sienna, but I’m not a free man … you knew that when you came here … I never promised you anything.”

She couldn’t stop her crying, partly because what Declan said was true. He never promised her anything. They both got into the relationship fully knowing they are both unavailable. Declan never had the intention of leaving his wife, but he never planned to fall in love either.

She shook her head. She couldn’t accept it even when she knew from the start he was never going to leave his wife, she was hoping she could change his mind. She thought she could make him love her more than he loved his wife and he will choose her.

There was one thing that would change everything. Although she didn’t want it to be the reason for him to finally choose her, she had to try. “I’m pregnant.”

She remembers the horrified look on his face. He recoiled from her and looked at her like she was an alien. At first, he didn’t believe her and then he was furious. He was angry because a child was the one thing he always wanted … with Olivia. Instead, he got his mistress pregnant. He hit his desk with the palm of his hand and screamed, “No!”

He held his head with both hands like it was going to explode. He was breathing heavily, it was the most devastating news he had ever received although the absence of a child was what started the affair in the first place. He shook his head, “No.”

Declan Hunt was a very successful man by any standard. He was not just an heir of a diamond-owner family who had taken over his father’s business and taken it to the next level. He was his mother’s favorite son for a reason. He was a well-known business man, a respected CEO. But he was not a good husband to the woman he loves and it crushed him to know he didn’t just fail her because of his infidelity, he was going to damage her for life by impregnating his mistress.