A Moment in Destiny

Chapter 819 Love Not Deep Enough

Marley took a look at her for a while without awakening her and then entered into the study.

At 10 o’clock, Sylvie went back in the bedroom, intending to sleep early.

Men were not reliable. However, the baby was of her own. Nourishing the baby was the right thing to do.

When Marley came out of the study, Sylvie was already in bed. Without saying anything, he turned off the light and went directly to bed.

Having been living in two separate places for over a month, He suddenly came to sleep with her, which made Sylvie’s whole body tauten.

After climbing into the bed, Marley armed around Sylvie after lying down in the darkness and said, “Just sleep, Sylvie!”.

Staring at the wall blankly, Sylvie remained silent in darkness and her heart was at a loss, not knowing what to do.

Puzzled by the complex thoughts in her mind for half a night, Sylvie was quite dispirited after getting up. She opened her eyes and met his. Marley’s puffiness was less obvious and he appeared to be refreshed, so he had a good night.

“Morning!” he said.

“Morning!” responded Sylvie lightly.

“Are you going to the company or staying at home?” he asked.

“I’ll stay at home!” answered Sylvie.

“Um, that’s okay.” Marley stood up. “You can take more rest, but don’t forget to have breakfast on time!”

“Ok.” Sylvie stared at Marley’s back blankly when he was washing his face and brushing his teeth after getting up. Since the weather today was bad, the room was still dim even if the curtain was drawn back. The shadow of Marley’s body was partly hidden and partly visible in the early-morning sunlight before she finally closed her eyes.

Sylvie got out of bed slowly and looked at the wall of the bathroom where the sound of flowing water came.

Catching sight of Sylvie sitting near the bedside and staring at the wall of the bathroom, Marley was stunned for a while and then asked, “Sylvie, what’s the matter?”

Sylvie got sober suddenly, turned to him, and said, “Aila is pregnant and Ernie is the father. If you can find him, please tell him about this. If he wants the baby, she won’t have an abortion, but if he doesn’t, she will have the abortion three days later.”

“She is pregnant?” Marley said in surprise.

Looking at Marley with hesitation implied in her eyes, Sylvie then asked, “Are you really invited to dinner yesterday?”

Marley was stunned and then nodded, “Yes!”

“Oh!” his unwillingness to tell the truth really disappointed Sylvie. She then asked directly, “Marley, what do you think that matters the most in marriage? I think it’s cheating!” Content protected by Nôv/el(D)rama.Org.

Marley looked at her with confusion in his eyes.

“We are going to divorce!” Sylvie said in a low voice, which directly hit his heart.

“What do you mean?”

“I am tired, really tired!” Sylvie answered in a low voice, “I do not want to continue. I do not believe what a man says.”

“Is it because of Ernie?” Marley suddenly realized and said, “You are blaming Marley for making Aila get pregnant. Is that why you transfer your anger to me?”

Sylvie smiled slightly and said with self-deprecating humor, “I don’t deny, but I can’t believe what you say. You actually had a coffee with Jemima yesterday, but you lied to me. I don’t want to quarrel with you. I just want a divorce.” Marley was shocked by the sudden requirements for a divorce and the fact that she mentioned Jemima as well, so he asked, “Did you follow my track?”

Sylvie just smiled, “Whatever! Just think me that way!”

“Sylvie, if you want a divorce, you do not need to look for an excuse for it. Nothing happened between me and Jemima.”

“While, if you didn’t tell a lie, why you lied to me?” she replied.

Marley couldn’t find an answer to the question because she got him. But he then immediately asked with indignation, “Have you ever thought of our child? Do not forget that you are already pregnant. I do not agree with the divorce. And seriously, nothing had happened between Jemima and me. I met her just to settle something. Given the fact that you are pregnant, I do not want you to be angry. That’s why I lied. It's not what you think. I will not divorce you. You should calm down, and so do I. We should talk later.”

Finished talking, Marley slammed the door behind him. Obviously, he’s really angry.

Sylvie sighed to herself.

Was she too sensitive? Or were there too many problems between them?

Their marriage is based not on love. They were connected by marriage. Even if Marley fell in love with her after marriage, but this love didn’t help solve the existing problems. She’s not sure whether she demanded too much, which had made her so tired. She thought Marley was tried too.

Sylvie moved to the Sunshine Residential Area for a rest. She needed to calm down.

Marley hurried to the Sunshine Residential Area, shocked by the news. However, Sylvie refused to open the door, just told him, “I am tired, Marley. I want to be alone for some time.”

“Open the door, please. Let’s talk.” Marley said in low voice, “I will respect your decision, I promise, but can we talk at first?”

“Can you promise that you will talk calmly?” she lacks self-confidence in a way.

“Yes, I promise.”

The door was then open when she saw him standing in the doorway. Seeing his haggard face, Sylvie more or less felt ashamed and uneasy. Marley was staring at her complicated expression.

Simultaneously, they both fell into silence.

Sometimes, Sylvie would laugh at herself whenever she thought of the current situation.

She didn’t know why she kept on or who she was blaming. She just felt very tired of the marriage, and so did he.

She stepped back to let him in.

Marley shut the door and held her hand all of a sudden. Sylvie turned and said indifferently, “Let go, Marley!”

She wondered if he had grabbed Jemima’s hand like this yesterday. He was speculating that she had something with Ernie. But she knew that she was innocent. She felt, clearly, he had something with Jemima, or he wouldn’t have covered it up. Aiden kept a secret the private meeting between Elinor and Evie, but she didn't want their love. If she found out that her husband had another woman and child several years later, she mustn’t act as calm as Elinor, and instead, she would go crazy! So, she would rather kill everything in the cradle. She would rather give up the love than ending up being cheated on after falling in love!

Indeed, no cheating was allowed in the marriage.

“Let go of me!” Sylvie shouted again.

Staring at her hand silently, Marley said in a husky voice, “It’s hard.”

Sylvie raised her eyes and looked at him.

Marley looked deeply into her eyes, “Are you sure ……that you are going to divorce me?”

Sylvie was stunned by his words and then nodded seriously, “Yes.”

Marley smiled again, bleakly and miserably, "...... Do we ...... have to do this? We have overcome so many hardships. When everything is about to go smoothly, you want a divorce. So why?"

“Because you lied to me!” She responded.

“When did I lie to you?” Marley argued when raised his eyebrows.

“Yesterday!” Sylvie felt suffocated as she turned her face to look out at the sky.

“Am I that unworthy of your trust?” he asked bitterly. “Or you have never loved me. Do you still have Ernie in your heart? When he left, you're at odds with me. You think that my mother and I were wrong

to insist on not giving him the Hughes Group, do you? You're defending him, right? So that’s why you'd rather divorce me?”

Feeling distressed in her heart, Sylvie closed her eyes and said lightly, “Marley, I used to have sympathy or pity for Ernie. I don’t know why then, but after having gone through so much, I think it’s mutual appreciation! We are the same. Both of us are unpresentable illegitimate children. He is your father’s illegitimate son, and I am the illegitimate daughter of the Mccarthy family. I can feel a familiar and painful torment from the bottom of his eyes and it is a kind of entanglement. What he had under his eyes, I had once. It’s just that I never knew that neither of us is a good person. We both have blamed our parents. If you say mutual appreciation is love, I have nothing to say. But seriously, I don’t think that’s love. Our failure in marriage has nothing to do with others. It’s because of ourselves. Maybe, it’s because of me, but now I’m really tired! I don’t like the feeling of being cheated. I’d rather face the ugly reality than being cheated, and I don’t want to be your mother one day, so I insist on a divorce!”

She turned her face and seemed to notice a bright flash of light in Marley’s eyes. However, before she could look closely, he had already closed his eyes.

She was once fascinated by that long and arc eye line, where she had kissed, touched, and lingered over and over again. But now, she looked at him with an indescribable sourness in her heart.

“I must repeat that I didn’t deceive you. Yesterday, I had some business and I did meet Jemima!”

She asked in a tense voice, “But you told me that you went to a business dinner! You said that it’s related to the company’s business. Even last night and this morning, you still said so!

He replied, “But I didn't betray you.”

His voice was hoarse and trembling.

“Marley, do you love me?" She asked Marley blankly.

He smiled bitterly, opened his eyes, and looked directly into the bottom of her eyes, “I thought what I did was enough, but it seemed it’s still far from satisfying you!"

“Marley, I'm asking. Do you love me?”

“Sylvie!" Marley gritted his teeth, the veins on his forehead jutted out, “So, do you love me?”

“Of course, I love you!” Sylvie answered tiredly, “See, you don't believe that I love you! You always thought that I might be in love with Ernie, but I think we can only be friends with only same experience but not love. However, you never believe me.”

"Then how much do you believe me?" Marley’s expression was as gloomy as a hurricane that was about to whistle, “You have been suspecting that I rekindle the past feelings for Jemima! And you never believe what I explained to you."

“The problem between us has nothing to do with neither Ernie nor Jemima. It’s just we don't love each other deeply enough and we are blaming each other. So, I want to end this relationship!” Sylvie raised her head, fearlessly looked at the furious Marley in front of her, and even smiled, “I mean, Marley, I want to end this relationship. We should leave each other. From now on, you go your way, and I'll go mine. Let’s stop torturing each other before the conflict between us become irreconcilable. I do not want to end till the day we are tired of each other! Please leave something nice between us!"

It turned out that the time for two in love to indulge in was so short, almost fleeting.

It's not that you didn't love, but you didn’t know how to love!

“I once thought I would love you unconditionally and without reservation, but it seems that I can't do it! Even I am pregnant, I'm still unwilling to compromise! I'm afraid that one day I'll become resentful and not be myself anymore! But Marley, you just can’t get it. You don't understand my heart at all!”