Chapter 7 Downward Spiral Of The Relationship Between The Two.

Seated in the back of his car, which was currently on route to Celestine's apartment, Tobias impatiently tapped his foot while recalling the conversation he had with Amara before.

Each time he thought about how eager she was to divorce him and link up with one of her sugar daddies, he couldn't help but scoff.

How bold of her. First she acted like a love sick puppy, gluing to him like he was the last man on earth, and now, she wanted to get away, ready to live whatever blissful life her sugar daddy could fund.

Well, Tobias refused.

He wasn't going to let her get away with it, nor was he going to make the process of their divorce easy.

He was going to make every single thing, from head to toe, a process that would make her suffer, make her question why she had gone behind his back and gotten a sugar daddy.

But even though Tobias had decided this a little while ago, he still found himself baffled by Amara's audacity.

Scoffing, he muttered. "I knew I shouldn't have married her in the first place. She had always been a snake since the beginning."

Saying this reminded Tobias of the first time he met Amara. It was during his first year of college. During an exam, he had suddenly gotten a call stating that his grandfather had collapsed due to a heart attack. He of course, dropped everything and rushed to the hospital. By the time he arrived, his grandfather had gotten out of harm's way and beside him was Amara who claimed to have been around the area during the time of Gustavo's heart attack and coincidentally helped him.

Tobias didn't bite her lie. Coincidences like that were only heard of in novels, and he knew this. But his grandfather seemed to believe her, even thanking her and inviting her to dinner. During dinner, Gustavo had taken a questionable liking to Amara, even going as far as inviting her to stay with them after learning that her parents had passed away and she was currently struggling to pay a bill or two for her recent accommodation.

Of course, like a gold digger Tobias thought her out to be, Amara jumped at the opportunity with stars in her eyes.

Disgusting, he had thought, not realizing that he had started feeling an unexplainable dislike towards her.

That feeling only intensified when Gustavo enrolled her in the same university as he and Celestine and she so obviously started getting in between them both.

When he complained to his grandfather, Gustavo's answer was: "You should get used to her presence, after all, she's going to be your future wife. She saved my life, this is the least I can do and the least you can also do to show your gratitude."

That broke the camel's back and thus, began the downward spiral of the relationship between the two.

But even at that, Amara still perfectly played her role as his wife. Food, chores, bedly duties, she did them all with a smile on her face, never once complaining about anything.

At one point, Tobias nearly admitted that Amara was the perfect housewife that any man would have died for, but then Celestine who had been banished abroad by Gustavo, showed up and informed him of how Amara had manipulated his grandfather into pressuring her to leave his side. This in turn, nearly cost her life, leaving her bedridden in the hospital for four months, luckily, she survived, but not without side effects to her health.

After learning of what Amara had done, Tobias felt extremely guilty. It was all because of him that Amara and Gustavo had gone to such length. To atone for it, he met up with Celestine several times to check up on her, nothing more, nothing less.

But then one day, he learnt that Amara had someone watch him.

She was finally showing her true colors! An insecure fake wife who couldn't respect her husband privacy! Tobias had thought, angrily.

And Amara did not help matters for herself when she sent him that text message on the night of their anniversary. Tobias found himself so angry that he decided to teach her a lesson.

A divorce, he thought was the perfect jump scare to have her crumbling, apologizing and begging, but much to his surprise, she took that as a way out to openly mess with her sugar daddy.

Just the thought had Tobias's blood boiling, because not only was his pride hurt, his ego too.

"A snake would always be a snake, no matter how many times it sheds it's skin." He muttered and felt the car slow to a stop.

"We've arrived, Mr. Larsen." Dean informed from the front seat before rushing out to hold the door open for him.

Tobias stepped out of the car and made his way towards the direction where Celestine's apartment was located. From. The outside alone, he could see all the damages made and grimace when he caught sight of a police car parked by the entrance.

This was going to be a lot of work to cover up, he knew. And he needed to start right now, but not before he dealt with Celestine.

Pushing his way inside, Tobias ignored the shocked expression the landlord had as she noticed his presence.

He headed straight for the blonde who sat on one of the couches, brown blanket wrapped around her trembling shoulders as she watched some of the officers carry out their jobs.

"Celeste," He gently called out to her, resulting in her head snapping his way. In an instant, the look on her face flipped into relief.

"I'm so glad you came." She smiled, getting up and rushing to him.

Tobias opened his arms and hugged her, gently caressing her head as if she was a fragile piece of glass. "Did the culprits get caught?" He asked, eyes locked on the officers, hoping to not hear a no.

Celestine shook her head, but from the way she avoided eye contact and bit the nail on her big thumb, a nervous habit that she had picked up since high school, Tobias could tell that she was keeping something from him.

Taking both sides of her shoulder, he asked. "What is it?"

She looked hesitant, but at last she spoke. "Toby, please promise me you won't be mad at Amara."

His brows creased. "Mad at Amara? Why?"

Celestine glanced at the officers before lowering her voice and whispering.

"The police tracked the culprits activities back to a scandalous post made on social media a few days ago. It's a post containing nasty rumors about me, Toby. And," She paused and swallowed the lump in her throat, seemingly hesitant to say the next part. "The person who made the post, Was Amara."

Tobias was silent after hearing this. But from the way He let go of her shoulders, allowing hands to fall back to his side as his jaw tightened told Celestine that he was furious.

"I'm so sorry." She apologized, bowing her head.

Tobias stopped her. "It isn't your fault."

It was Amara's and he was going to make her apologize.

Publicly!