ke’s mom sank weakly to the floor.]]

She kept mumbling stuff under her breath. All the fight just drained right out of her.[]

ke’s dad looked awful.]]

I watched him clench his fists, then let go. Over and over.]]

“Victoria… please. What’ll it take for you to delete these videos?b” /b

His voice was totally broken.[]

I turned off the TV, my face totally nk, and said:

“Let ke divorce me. And I want every penny that’s mine–not a cent less.”

The two people came here hoping I’d convince Dad not to go after them. When they left, their backs were hunched over.[]

Next morning I went to see mywyer.

We went through everything ke and I owned. After we finished the divorce agreement, there was still time before lunch break.

So I took the divorce papers straight to ke’spany.]

When I found ke, he was standing by the floor–to–ceiling windows and smoking.[]

He heard movement and turned around.[]

Soon as he saw me, he put out his cigarette real quick.

I didn’t waste words. Just pulled out the signed divorce paper from my bbag /band pped it on his desk.

“Hurry up and sign these. We can still get to city hall while there’s time.b“/b[]

ke didn’t look at the divorce papers. He walked over to me with a pained expression I’d never seen:[]

“Victoria, I don’t agree to divorce.”

1 rolled my eyes, totally speechless and let out a coldugh:

“Oh really? You want me to pur that video of you and Amber kissing on bevery /bbig screen in Manhattan?”]

ke’s face went deathly pale in a sh. His lips trembling, and mumbled:]

“Victoria, I can exin. Amber and I aren’t…”

“I don’t want to hear it!“]

Looking at ke’s panicked expression, I just felt disgusted:[]

“I’m not interested in what’s between you two! I don’t want to know if that baby in Amber’s belly is your brother’s or not! I just want to divorce you as fast as possible!“[]

ke was still trying to patch things up, but then his dad came barging in:[]

“If you don’t want the ke family ruined in your hands, just do whatever she wants!“]

ke finally signed his name on the divorce paper.]

He didn’t read the terms and conditions inside. ke’s father wanted to stop him.]

But after ncing at me, ke’s father just sighed and said nothing.

Even though we wouldn’t get the divorce certificate for another 30 days, walking out of city hall, I felt so much better.

I had no intention of wasting time talking to ke. So I got in my car and left right away.]]

That same afternoon, I was on a ne heading overseas for vacation.

I didn’t expect that Ryan was sitting right next to me, going to the same destination.[]

“You just took over your family’spany, right? Your dad’s okay with you just running off like this?“]]

Ryan pulled the magazine off his face:]]

“I told him I was going to hit on my future wife. So he let me go.“]

I thought Ryan was just joking around.[].

But for the next three weeks or so, wherever I went, he followed.

Same restaurants, same hotels.[]

The day before flying back, I couldn’t help myself and ask:]

“Ryan, you don’t actually like meb, /bdo you?b“/b]

Ryan angrily mmed down his ss:[]

“Of course I do! How clueless can you be? You’re just figuring this out now!“[]

Faced with him turning this around on me, Iughed, totally speechless:]

“So you were courting me? You followed me around every day without saying a word–how was I supposed to get that?!“]

As I said that, I could actually see a little shyness on Ryan’s face:[]

“Well now you know. So what do you think? Want to marry me?“]