Mr Melendez,Your Wife Wants Divorce Long ago novel Chapter 39

Chapter 39

In the spacious master bedroom on the second floor, Tabitha carefully placed a medical kit on the nightstand. “Jay’s back is seriously injured. I’m worried he might develop a fever tonight. You two should stay here with him—it’ll make it easier for us to monitor and care for him,” she advised gently.

Arabella didn’t hesitate or argue. She moved over to help Jayceon settle onto the edge of the bed, her hands steady despite the knot of guilt tightening in her chest.

After all, it was because of her that he was hurt. And since tomorrow was her day off, it didn’t matter where she spent the night.

Once Tabitha and Kimberly quietly left the room, Arabella closed the door behind them and stepped closer to Jayceon, ready to assist him in removing his coat.

But the moment her hand brushed his shoulder, his expression darkened. His grip suddenly tightened around her wrist, and his voice cut through the quiet with a cold edge. “Why did you bring up the divorce to Grandpa?”

Arabella froze, caught off guard by the sudden question. Her heart skipped a beat, and a tense silence stretched between them.

After a few moments, she replied, her voice unnervingly calm, “I wanted to give you the chance to be with your little family—the three of you.”

Jayceon’s eyes locked onto hers for several seconds, sharp and unreadable. “Arabella, if that’s what you want to believe, fine. But remember, whether we divorce or not isn’t your decision to make.”

She nodded quietly, not meeting his gaze as she resumed helping him slide off his suit jacket.

She still owed him 150 million dollars.

And as he had made clear before, Jayceon was a businessman who never lost a deal.

If she failed to repay that debt, he would never let her walk away so easily.

The atmosphere thickened with unspoken tension, heavy and suffocating.

Jayceon sat quietly on the bed’s edge, his face shadowed, eyes lowered, making it impossible to decipher his true thoughts.

Arabella’s eyes drifted to the whip marks etched across his back, and a frown crept onto her face.

This wasn’t the first time he had suffered punishment because of her. The previous occasion had been when he insisted on honoring their engagement and marrying her.

Back then, the Melendez elders had looked down on her—a daughter of a fallen noble family, seen as a liability rather than an asset to Jayceon’s career. They believed she would only drag him down and diminish his standing.

In the end, their fears had been realized over the three difficult years of their marriage.

Now, Arabella understood that Jayceon’s decision to marry her might have been partly driven by defiance.

Chester had despised Georgina’s humble origins and had even forced them apart. So Jayceon had rebelled against Chester by marrying a girl from a bankrupt family instead.

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