Episode 19

Kate stared at him, as she watched him rip the papers. When he finished, he said:

"I have a different agreement for you. I didn't like that one."

"But everything was there, did I forget something?"

"Yes, you forgot that I needed to agree with this decision. We are not getting divorced."

"What do you want? To torture me? Let these people keep saying that I'm scamming you? Keep hearing accusations from you every day for something I didn't do? No, James... if you don't agree, I will find a lawyer and get a divorce another way. I will not be tied to a marriage with a man like you."

"You think you're the only one going through problems?" James stood up and paced back and forth until he said, "I want to make another proposition to you. Something I had already thought about before everything that happened." James opened a drawer, took out some papers, and handed them to Kate. "It's sad that you don't have a last name and a story to tell."

Kate took the papers and read, confused.

"Yes, I was filing a process to include my last name in your name. We got married, and you didn't even carry my last name. We did everything wrong, but maybe it's not too late to fix it... Is it too late to fix it?"

Kate was a little shaken and looked away.

"I am willing to forget everything... we had a setback in the marriage. Marriages are not perfect, I know. But we can't separate at the first fight."

"What are you proposing?"

"Isn't it obvious? I don't want to divorce, I want to be with you and it's not because of any promise I made to my mother... I like you."

Kate's mouth opened, but she couldn't utter a word, she looked at him trying to hide that his words had made her heart race.

"If you agree to make it work... I believe we will work out. I will swallow my pride and forget everything I saw. I will strive to do different, I will take care of you like I never did. Nothing will be the same. But... I have my demands. First I want you to quit your career at the hospital..."

Kate was softening, but when he uttered those words, she immediately dropped the papers on the table.

"You don't need to be a doctor, Mom left you 50% of everything she had. With all that you have, you will earn much more than a doctor's salary without even lifting a finger."

"Being a doctor is a dream, it's not about what I'm going to earn, James!"

"Okay... I'll accept that too, but then you can do your residency at another hospital?"

"No, I can't!"

"Right... I'm trying. We'll talk about that later, let's move on to my main demand. I want you to abort this child, I couldn't get over everything knowing that this baby exists."

Kate stood up, smiling nervously.

"Wow, I... I thought for a second about accepting your proposal, I thought you had become a man. But what you just said is the cruelest thing anyone has ever said to me." Kate couldn't hold back her tears. "I keep imagining this baby finding out in the future that his father said that to his mother, how painful that would be for him. James, I don't accept your proposal, I don't accept your last name and I don't accept you! Tomorrow I will send you new divorce papers because I'm not willing to look at you anymore."

Kate ran out crying, she rarely loses her emotional control, but James's words hurt her much more than he could imagine.

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