His Paper Cranes Are Off-Limits

So what if you chose the wrong man? It’s not like you can’t get a divorce! He was excellent in every way, except that he had no interest in her. No problem. She could just turn him into her ex-husband. But what was with this arrogant man? He knew she was married, yet kept doing things that made it easy for her to get the wrong idea. So he was the older boy from the hospital ten years ago, the one whose parents had both died in a car accident? No wonder he looked a little familiar. But the difference between them seemed far too great! Her first marriage had been a complete disaster. She really wasn’t confident about starting another one so soon. This was too much. Just because she’d taken a few extra days to divorce her ex-husband, he carried her straight back to his home and wouldn’t let her leave the house. Was this how you repaid someone for a kindness? He’d waited ten years. It had taken him all that time to finally accept that there was nothing between them, and now he couldn’t stand to wait another fifteen minutes. She was dragging her feet over the divorce. If she couldn’t make up her mind, she couldn’t blame him for taking matters into his own hands. It had been ten years. The paper crane she’d folded with her own hands no longer carried her scent. He could no longer bear a life without her. No one would ever hand over the woman he’d cherished for ten years to a man who had no idea how to value her. Even if she hated him, even if she resented him, he would keep her by his side first. He would use all the love and patience he had to slowly erase her hatred and resentment. For the rest of her life, she would remain in his sight. No one would ever make her leave his side again!