Touching The Heart Of Ace (SAMPLE)

Chapter 74

I did not understand people most of the time. I did not get why some people behave the way they do, including myself.

Yet... I knew calling the Judge stupid inside the court was... well, stupid.

The exact sentence was 'Holy crap! Are you fucking stupid or what? Look at that ring... HE GAVE IT TO HIM!'

I wanted to laugh so bad at Marshall, Janice's lawyer, who was sweating pigs.

I had been attending all of their divorce sessions.

I never knew Janice was a pathological liar. She just got a kick out of lying for no reason whatsoever. I would get it, if she wanted to get sympathy from the audience and Judge herself... but, to lie that Robbie forced her to get a plastic surgery?

That was just a shitty thing to do.

Last session Robbie's financial worth was analysed and Janice was not at all happy with the amount.

Suck it up Bitch!

He was mine; everything he had was mine; everything he owned was mine!

He had transferred quite a big chunk of his unconcealed worth in Lia's name and Lia could not access it, until she was twenty.

The court was happy with it, but Janice was not. She claimed as his wife she had the right to decide how his money was handled and distributed, but not-so-sadly she did not.

Then the rest was in several investments which was dropping the values drastically in stock markets. With an iron clad prenuptial, Janice was leaving this marriage without much.

About his real assets transferred to hidden private accounts in both his and my names... well no one knew about that.

Hence Janice pointed out the cost of my ring. It varied from 3 million to 15.5 million in various online blogs but honestly I did not care. Robbie gave it to me... no... he slipped it to me. It could never get more precious than that.

It was in no sense the only ring or jewelery he had gifted me. I had quite a large collection of expensive rings which he had bought me; or cheap rings for that matter. Coming to think about it, I even owned a fifty cents plastic ring from his 'apology pile'.

But this was special.

Since they could not trace Robbie purchasing it, there was nothing the court could do. I was a multi-millionaire. I could buy a ring for myself, couldn't I?

Janice did not see it that way and she thought it was okay to ridicule the Judge by calling her stupid.

It almost seemed like court had heard from both sides but not even close.

I signalled Simon and he looked so giddy as a toddler on sugar rush and I could almost see him jumping on his soles.

Calm down, Si.

Marshall was afraid of Simon.

Every time Simon left the court without any objection he was steadily getting nervous. But Janice and Terry- Robbie's ex lawyer- were over the moon.

Janice had quite a box full of claims on how Robbie had 'destroyed' her life.

His showing up in several of the offices she had worked, abusing her and making scenes had made the bosses fire her; his not letting her work and earn on her own, had made her afraid of work environments; his psychologically pressuring to get plastic surgeries, claiming that would make her a better wife, had destroyed her self-esteem and beauty; his traumatizing and alienating her from parenthood, had wiped her daughter from her life... and what not.