Husband With Benefits
Chapter 686: A Confrontation

Chapter 686: A Confrontation

Ava was heart broken to say the least. She’d been so sure that Erasmi would never... She stifled the sob that almost escaped her before she tried to get a control over herself. What a fool she’d been. He didn’t love her. They were not even attracted to each other and had come together only for the sake of this relationship. Even their friendship had been formed out of a need. Her need to make sure Cai was safe if something happened to her. And Erasmi’s need to be with his son.

She should have accepted the truth sooner, instead of being carried away in her own fairytale. She’d let herself be influenced by Autumn, Olivia and Nora’s love stories. They hadn’t started out with love but they’d ended up that way, hadn’t they? But she’d forgotten, in each of those cases, both parties had choice to choose or reject each other. In their case, they did not have that option.

And Erasmi had been so sure that he would not love her that he’d mentioned it repeatedly that if they were to fall in love then they would break it off. He’d seemed to want to assure her but she’d even seen it as a reminder, that she should not cling to him when such a time comes.

Even when she’d been shaky about the marriage, it had not even taken him a moment to propose an annulment. She just had not expected that their time together would be so short.

But even as she walked away from Hannah’s home, she felt a surge of anger. Had Erasmi really fallen for Hannah and her fake self? Could he not discern the difference between real and fake. Or had his ’love’ made him blind to the ’fakeness’ of that woman?

She stopped then and almost turned around. She should go and confront the two of them! So what if Hannah revealed her past? She would reveal Hannah’s past too. Which was even worse than hers. After all, she had done what she needed to do to survive and then later escape. But Hannah, she’d even enjoyed doing what she did and stealing money from unsuspecting people.

A bitter smile came over her face then. What would she do if he chose to forgive Hannah’s sins? That would make her double a fool and double her heartbreak. She turned back then. If he chose to jump into a valley and hurt himself that was upto him! She would just refuse to divorce him. It wasn’t as if she’d signed some pre nup that she would divorce him if he fell in love foolishly. He could wait forever to get a divorce. She would take the Frost brothers’ help if need be! She’d even ask them to pound some sense into him...

She stumbled then. For standing in front of her was Erasmi...

"What are you doing here?"Ava asked sharpky which

"Following you." Erasmi answered giving her a smile as he pushed his hands into his pockets.

The surge of anger that she had earleir felt returned full force at the sight of his smile. How dare he! How could he stand here and smile at her like nothing happened. When she knew he’d lied to her and gone to Hannah’s house?

Marching towards him, she hit his arm with all her pent-up emotions, causing him to wince," How dare you smile at me like that after everything! You lied to me that you were going out with friends! And you went to see that Hannah! How could you."

Erasmi raised his hands and when Ava would have hit him again, he quickly caught her wrists, pulling her towards him," I did not lie to you, Ava. Not exactly."

Hot tears ran down her cheeks as she looked up at him, wanting to believe his claim. " What do you mean you did not lie to me? And don’t tell me that Hannah is your friend and so that makes it a non lie. I saw the way she jumped at you."

Before she could speak more, she found herself crushed in Erasmi’s embrace. Even as his closeness and scent calmed her, the thought that he had hugged Hannah like that, hurt her even more. She sobbed now and looked up at him," Do you love her? Is that why you are doing this?"

She looked up at him now, wanting to see his face. She would then accept that as a fact. But he had to say this to her directly.

He smiled then, a goofy smile that made her feel even worst. And then, instead of answering her, he actually had the gall to tap her nose and exclaim," I never knew someone could look so beautiful even when crying."

"Erasmi, stop it," she whispered, her voice trembling as she tried to pull away, but his grip on her was firm, keeping her close.

"No, Ava, listen to me," he said, his voice softening as he looked into her eyes, his expression serious now. "I don’t love Hannah. I’ve never loved her. I did not lie to you and I did not go to her."

He must have noticed her disbelief because he shook his head and answered," I didn’t. That was Erasmi. The person who returned to you this afternoon was not me but Demetri."

Ava’s eyes widened at that, finding this too unbelievable. She knew that Demetri and Erasmi looked the same but they had different mannerisms. She’s never confuse them. But then she remembered Nora telling her that the two could adopt each other’s mannerisms and Erasmi had avoided her touch this afternoon... Was that really Demetri? But why?

"Why?" Ava looked up at Erasmi and asked the question. If Demetri really was pretending to be Erasmi and he had been the one with Hannah, then why did they do it. Her eyes widened then. She knew the Frosts were powerful... But were they so powerful that they could even dig up the sealed files. Had Erasmi discovered everything?

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