His Forgotten Ex- Wife

Chapter 23

Daniel

"I just want this meeting to end with a positive result and our portfolio expanded," Heath spoke with a bit of nervousness as I walked beside him. I gave him a smile with a slight nod.

"I have put all my faith in you when it comes to his deal. I'm sure you will have them eating from your hands in no time," I smiled at him. "Just the way with me," I added in a whisper but Heath might have heard it because he looked at me with a serious look but I just smiled and gave him an assuring look. We were just going to enter the conference hall and there wasn't much time so I saw him let it slide. Today was surely important for both of us but for really different reasons.

"Come on they are here. We should get moving," I tried to create an urgency by swinging the door open for him signing him to walk in first. I followed him and sat down greeting everyone. My eyes watched Heath like a hawk, all his interactions, where his eyes moved, the slight nod he gave to others I noticed at all.

We haven't talked about that night. We haven't talked about anything but work. I have acted as if nothing had happened as if at all right but every night I burned in agony. I writhed in the pain of the past while he slept. He had told me that he had never slept with her as I had asked years back. I wanted to know the truth and he had lied. I was sure of it because I saw the shock on his face when my mother told her about Amelia being pregnant. There was no mistaking what I saw.

While everyone had gone to sleep I had been pulling on my hair thinking about her. I hadn't slept a wink thinking about her and the past. I had repeatedly asked myself where I lacked in giving what she wanted. I knew I wasn't a complete man, god knows I knew it and even now I felt less of a man knowing that I couldn't have any child of mine. I knew it too well that it was my own fault but no one could understand how it felt knowing that my wife cheated on me because of my disability. I cursed the night when I fell down the cliff. If god had to take my will to walk he should have just taken me away rather than make me face betrayal.

I felt less of a man back then, I did and I was not too fond of that but Amelia made me feel like dirt on the floor, as I was a scum on the floor. She wrecked my heart and soul. I wanted it all to be a lie. God knows I wanted it to be but everyone spoke the same thing.

How could I believe in her words when every servant and every footage spoke of the same? I saw her going into his room. I saw her with my own eyes and I had shattered from the inside. My soul cracking with each confirmation. Hatred crawled over my skin for her with everything I heard and saw. It made its way home in my heart and bones.

She was my great love and then she turned into my greatest hatred. I knew I wasn't that great. Goddamn it I knew I wasn't such a catch in my wheelchair, a dysfunctional body but why did she have to do that to me? Emotions made me choke as I sat right there in the meeting.

Even if she and the past were out of sight, she was always on my mind. All the hatred inside of me couldn't make me forget her. Nothing will in this lifetime. I had loved her and I had let her love scar me in such a way that it had made me want to die. The pulsing nerve on my hand had coaxed me so many times to cut it, assured me that once done the pain would ease. I had looked at it in the darkness with a gnawing urgency inside of me to ease the pain.

I would have accepted her back if she had told me the truth once. I would have compromised. God, I would have but she was gone. She had walked out of the house leaving me alone. She didn't face me. She left me all alone to burn in agony.

"I think we should start," Heath spoke up as he rose from his seat to give the presentation. The reminder of his presence made me feel betrayed. He picked the remote to start with the projections and I closed my eyes for a second remembering all the pain that I felt from that night and that the past was all because of him. If he had not been back there that summer, things might have been different. She wouldn't have met him, she wouldn't have seen him and she wouldn't have wanted him at all.

When he had said that a clap didn't make a sound single-handedly he forgot that he had painted himself in the same colors as her. It was only now that I thought about it that I saw the flaws that I didn't see him in back then.

I knew things were going to change between us. They already had since that night I heard the conversation between him and Mom. I had kept quiet for more than a week, basking in the pain and writhing in the agony of betrayal I had felt. Now it was time to see him feel betrayed. I looked at Shane his assistant as he plugged in the device making the settings to get the presentation ready to begin. His eyes met mine for a second and I saw the acknowledgment.

Even though it was wrong I have used him in this plan of mine. I had paid him but it was a risk that he was willing to take. He needed the money and the promise that I would take the fall for anything worked just fine between us. Leaning on my seat with a finger to my lips I stared towards the screen.

"As we had discussed over calls, the potential campaign for the product launch of your monitors with cam recorders is going to be all about highlighting all the different purposes it can be used for. There is so much we can use it for. It's a huge product line," Heath spoke picking the remote for the projector. He kept on talking about what he had in plan and I was waiting for him to let the screens slide.

He was a fool for not looking at the screen, a complete fool for giving his attention to the clients he talked about things that didn't match at all with what was going on the screen. I hadn't changed the look but all the words. The small monitor things with a camcorder in them to be used for family purposes like pet monitors, baby monitors, and home surveillance have been turned into something illegal with what was shown in the slide. The company had no concerns about it.

Connecting it with Alexa and Siri didn't add much to its appeal. It was a minimalistic product, not something new to boast about. There were so many I had at home when it came to Sophia.

Slide after slide went turning into a disaster and on the inside, I smiled in satisfaction.

"Its waterproof quality will be one of the major highlights-," Heath spoke up.

"I think everyone here would like you to stop," one of the members of the client's team spoke up. "Do you have any idea what the hell you are showing up there," she was raging mad but I knew she was trying to control her temper. Heath's words died on his lips and he was taken aback by what was happening. I looked around at the furious faces of the other team. The few members of my company looked furious.

"I'm sorry," Heath asked confused turning around to see look at the screen. It was an explicit image of using it as a device to spy on adults in the bathroom and other places. His eyes went wide to see the image of people being spied over in private places. The screen was filled with images that talked about the drawbacks of the product. How it could be used as a spy device and invade of privacy of people.

I had dug into the potential flaws of the device and with the presentation I had highlighted them all in this new presentation of Heath's who absolutely knew nothing about it. His name was on the line here and not the company because this project was his personal interest especially when he was being paid under the table. I looked at the three men and two women who had come down for this meeting from the other side of the town.

Two of the men had furious faces but not as much as the other three because unlike those three they were concerned about how they would rotate the money if this deal didn't happen. Digging around in the project that Heath had brought over the company for a while. The company was doing the bare minimum but it was whitewashing the money so importing a bit of cheap products and hiring staff wasn't such a big task. The employees in the company were barely thirty and maybe half of them didn't have any idea what was happening. I found it fishy.

I was going to kill two birds with a stone.

He wasn't the person I thought him to be and it scared me. My foundation of belief had been shaken that night. It made me doubt him, it made me doubt everything but before that, I needed to take a bite of revenge when it came to him.

He needed to pay for his sins because a clap doesn't happen single-handedly.

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