The Second Wife by Melinda Mulera (book club reads .txt) 📗

"We both agreed to stand down if one of us losses. Avery even agreed to stop all connections with her." Hazel spoke out and she simply smiled mockingly.

"You believed that?" She asked only to turn her eyes to Avery. "Would Avery really back out? Leave the woman who seems to have caught him by the neck of the heart?" She chuckled lightly. "Dear Hazel, I thought you were smarter than Avery. I really thought so but you're just as equally childish as he is."

"State your point, Rose." Hazel hissed out and she nodded slightly.

"Avery has an obsession with trying to understand any woman he meets. Whether he has to take her into his bed to, he will. I always thought he was just being a really lustful man but I was wrong. He wasn't craving women, he was craving just one woman who would give him enough of everything. I am not a woman who would learn to love, so I can't help him. Our marriage is business and I don't mind him exploring the different kinds of women he can find. I didn't think he would eventually catch on to the one woman he had been looking for. Believe me I doubted such things existed without faults. But he found Iris and I heard of her from a mile away. Your mother, Avery, couldn't help but tell me how bad she can't wait to replace me with someone who doesn't talk bad about her and it's you, Iris." She smiled slightly before it dropped into a frown. "The whole bunch loves your silent submissive nature and to be frankly honest, I felt annoyed that you would let then speak to you they way they do. That is why I prefer my relationships business. I don't mind you being with Avery, it will help him of course. But he signed a contract with me in marriage, meaning our businesses are one and support each other. I'm not divorcing him and neither can he, even if he had a choice. His company failed at one point and I helped him bring it up. He can't run. But if you wish to be with him, you'll become a second wife as I'll remain the first. It's only business Darling. Nothing personal."

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That... Sure didn't sound like a complement.....