Chapter 77. Breaking Apart

"Don't make this difficult for me," I said, my back still turned against him. He held me from behind and I felt my heart breaking the more. Why was he making this difficult for me? Could he not see I was breaking and this wasn't easy for me?

"Ava," his voice came out in a soft plea. 

I turned around in his arms. 

"Don't you get it, Skye? The reason why we got married is dead. This marriage is void."I said to him, trying to hide my emotions but clearly, I was failing.

He shook me and I felt my head spin. "How do you expect me to keep living without you?" He asked me. 

"The same way you've always lived before you met me," I said in defiance. I held back the tears that threatened to surface any moment as I looked at him.

He shook me more irritated by the words I said. "How do you expect me to move on without you, tell me." He demanded, his voice breaking. 

The tears I fought so hard to hold back slipped from my eyes