I Refuse to Be Your Second Choice novel Chapter 105

Natalie stared at the black card.

This was Alexander's supplementary card. Did that mean what she'd heard in the boutique was wrong? Whether the sales associate had misheard or Camila White had lied, she didn't know.

After her outburst, her head seemed a bit clearer. What had she just done? She had let a nightmare provoke her into unleashing all the feelings she had buried deep inside—feelings she hadn't even realized were there.

Now he would think she still cared, that she was still holding a grudge against him. But she didn't want to be entangled with him anymore!

Alexander leaned in, studying the conflicted, regretful expression on Natalie’s face.

“I forgive you,” he said suddenly.

Natalie looked up, completely bewildered.

“I know you feel guilty for wrongly accusing me,” Alexander said, a corner of his mouth lifting into a smirk. “It’s okay. I forgive you.”

He knelt by the bed, his gaze fixed on hers. “Let’s not get a divorce, okay?”

Natalie met his intense, deep-set eyes. His high-bridged nose made his gaze seem even more profound, almost loving. It was the same look he’d had when he proposed, kneeling just like this, begging her to marry him.

She had cried her eyes out that day, overjoyed at the thought of spending her life with the man she loved.

But what happened after? His deep affection had lasted only six months.

“Alexander Ramirez, do you know what you’re saying?”

“I know,” he answered firmly. He knew he could never let Natalie go. The thought of her with another man was unbearable.

So, he was willing to let it go. Even if she loved Eugene Ramirez, he wouldn't let her leave. He just wanted her by his side. If they could start over and be happy together from now on, he could pretend he had never heard any of it.

Natalie stared into his sincere eyes. “So you don’t love Camila White anymore?”

“She was never the one I loved.”

“But you married me to get revenge on her for marrying someone else.”

She still remembered hearing Bruce Ward ask him outside his office if he had married her to get back at Camila.

“You heard that,” Alexander said, his expression filled with guilt, not surprise.

“Get out,” she said through clenched teeth, her eyes squeezed shut.

Alexander thought she was angry at him for deliberately deceiving her. He slowly stood up. “Okay, I’ll go. Don’t be angry. You’re still sick.”

It had been a long time since he had spoken to her in such a gentle tone.

But Natalie couldn’t bear to hear another word from him. “Get out!”

She kept her eyes shut until she heard the bedroom door click closed. Then, the tears she had been holding back streamed down her face.

He said it was deliberate? How laughable. Because of his deliberate words, their child was gone! He had no idea how happy she had been about that baby. She had thought the child would be her good luck charm, a reason for them to reconcile.

But in the end… she and Alexander had brought the child nothing but bad luck, preventing it from ever coming into this world.

When Charlotte Roberts returned, she found Alexander sitting alone in the living room. “Natalie is unwell. You should be with her. What are you doing sitting here brooding?”

Just as she finished speaking, a door upstairs clicked open, and Natalie appeared, her face pale, fully dressed and heading down the stairs.