Bound to My Ex-husband's Deadly Rival

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Elara's POV 

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“Elara what the f**k are you doing here!?” Dorian yelled, his voice echoing in the room like thunder.

I tried to say something, I tried to protest, but the words wouldn’t come out. 

My lips trembled as I fought back the overwhelming feeling twisting in my stomach.

My gaze moved from Dorian to Alexis, taking in the sight of his erection buried deep inside her as she lay on his office table, her shirt unbuttoned and her skirt pushed up to her waist, while Dorian’s pants hung loosely around his knees.

Just when I thought our marriage was finally getting better… now this?

“You’re having an affair with my best friend?” My voice broke, painful tears blurring my vision.

“I was going to tell you, but not yet,” he said, zipping up his pants as Alexis got down from his office table. 

He was going to tell me????

I realized then and there that I had already lost a game I didn’t even know I was playing.

“How long have you both been doing this?” I finally summed up the courage to ask the question that was bugging me.

“It's been a year,” Alexis answered and my heart immediately dropped to my stomach. I couldn't breathe, it was like the oxygen wasn't reaching my lungs.

She didn't even look or sound remorseful.

“You know, I'm actually glad you saw this,” she continued. “It saves me the trouble of pretending I haven’t been his from the very start. You always thought the world revolves around you, like you're more special than me, you have no idea how long I've been waiting to humble you…..Dorian complains about you all the time, how you made him feel trapped, how you never knew how to please him. He’d come to me for everything you couldn’t give him… and let’s just say, I never left him wanting. Every kiss he gave you was borrowed. Every night he spent with you, he was thinking about me. You were living in my shadow, and you didn’t even know it. I’ve always been his first choice. He chose me, and he will always choose me over you.”

Her words, like fire, glazed over my skin, burning into nerves I didn’t even know existed until the ache spread through me.

She stood beside Dorian, smiling at him as he smiled back, and the next second, he pulled her in for a long and passionate kiss, not caring that I was standing there. 

She pulled away after what felt like forever and giggled as she spoke. “I think you should tell her now.”

Tell me what?

“Alexis gave me something you couldn't give to me for years. She's pregnant with my child,” Dorian spoke, gently rubbing her belly as they smiled at each other. “Elara, I'm divorcing you and making her my wife.” 

I blinked.

Once.

Twice.

My breath stalled in my throat.

I caught my husband cheating and he ends up divorcing me?

Not only