Chapter 4 The Unexpected Mistress

• Let me in, please. I don't know where to go. Mia begged, banging on Xavier's door to allow her to enter as the rain pounded against both the pavement and her skin, making her shiver from the cold feeling that spread through her body.
• Xavier actually threw her out, true to his words, the night she signed the divorce paper.
• Under the rain, Mia could feel a vibration within her; it was her cell phone. Her dad was calling.
• Good evening, sir. She greeted me with clattering teeth.
• What is good about your life? My father countered. You are just useless; you couldn't even be useful to me for once in your life, he said all at once without remorse.
• Daddy, I am your daughter; it's Mia. She said it with the phone held tight in her hand, and tears came flowing, mixing with the rain.
• You are not my daughter anymore. I disown you from now on. You are dead to me, Mr. Astor said to her with all seriousness.
• Mia felt something had left her. Reality dawned on her: she was alone, with no family to go back to except her husband.
• "We could use a surrogate. Mia kept knocking at the door while pleading with her husband to reason with her.
• She just kept muttering things—anything that seemed like a solution to avoid this divorce was desperate for him to reconsider.
• Why was he doing this to her? All those years spent together were just going to waste.?
• "Can you at least open the door to let me through? I will take my leave tomorrow." Hot tears fell from her eyes. At this point, she had accepted it, but now she has nowhere to go.
• She tried everything in her power to make this marriage work. He just ignored her completely, not caring about me.
• Mia jumped in fear when she heard the honk of a car, the headlights shining directly into her eyes, making her squint.
• Just as she was managing to gather herself and pick herself up from the floor to see the person who rode in the car, she saw her ex-husband opening the door and coming out with an umbrella to welcome the person.
• Mia was shocked to see the person coming out of the car.
• Now, looking at her husband kissing the guest under the rain with the umbrella above his head,.
• Even if he were to cheat on her, not with her sister, Mia thought.
• She felt numb while looking at them. Her eyes collided with Xavier's, and he just smirked at her.
• She went over to where they were under the rain.
• Why? Was all Mia could mutter to no one in particular?
• "He was never yours to begin with; you stole him from me. I just came back to regain my spot." Bella fired back at Mia.
• "He was always mine." Bella continues talking to Mia without any remorse.
• "You are my sister, Bella; how could you?" Tears were pouring down my eyes, and she couldn't control them any longer.
• "Who is your sister?" she asked Mia mockingly.
• "We were never sisters, and I can never be a sister to the child of a home wrecker and prostitute you call a mother," Bella said.
• "I don't even know why Dylan takes you as his sister when you are just a stepbrother," she continued.
• Bella hated Mia, and now she was just showing her true colors to her.
• Mia looked directly into Xavier's eyes, with tears in them. She was broken, and it was clearly shown by the way she looked. She hadn't even noticed that she was barefoot.
• "You really don't have anything to say to me, Xavier?" Her voice sounded broken.
• Xavier just kept looking at her pathetic self.
• Then she asked the question that finally yanked a reaction out of him.
• "Did you ever love me?".
• Now she has his full attention. He removed his hand from Bella's waist, which he had been holding all this while, and moved closer to Mia.
• "Mia, listen well, and I am only going to say this once for you to hear me." Xavier said
• His eyes were shooting daggers, and Mia
• "You were only a substitute bride for me, and you turned out easy for me."
• "Things would have been different if only you had done it right. By just giving my family an heir, we could have divorced amicably and no one would have been hurt, but instead you made matters worse by cheating on me."
• "Did you ever love me, Xavier? was just what Mia could mutter, and all those years couldn't have been a joke to him. He must have felt something for her, even if it was a tiny bit of affection.
• Xavier himself doesn't even know the answer to the question; he couldn't answer Mia.
• He returned her question with a question.
• "What do you think?" He asked her with a smirk, grabbing Bella's hand.
• "I agreed to marry you three years ago because you looked like her."
• He was pointing at her sister Bella, and he left with Bella, leaving Mia behind under the rain.
• Mia's head began spinning, and she started to feel dizzy.
• Bella's sister was the mysterious lady Xavier was having late-night conversations with. Her sister.
• She was shocked beyond words.
• Did he promise her forever like he did her?
• How did she miss the hint when she was the one who kept telling her about her husband having an affair? Is she pregnant? Was the sonogram from her? Mia just kept asking no one in her head; her thoughts were all over the place.
• Slowly, she sat down on the ground, letting her tears escape through her eyes and roll down her pink cheeks, not caring how wet, swollen, and irritating they were.
• The cold she was feeling changed; she began to feel hot under the rain. After sitting down on the puddled ground for only God knows how long, she stood up and took one last look at the house.
• From the curtain, she could see two silhouettes being passionate and closely attached to each other in what she used to call home. How easy and convenient for him to throw away three beautiful years of marriage like it meant nothing.