His Ex-wife Is An Heiress (Amara and Tobias)

"That darn bastard," Melanie huffed as she and Amara walked into her apartment. Although she had not experienced the entire interaction between Tobias and Amara, she had seen the aftermath, which was Amara coming back into Giovanni with a mood obviously ruined. "That man really had the nerve to show up and ruin our night! Just you wait, the next time I see him, I'll-“ "Mel," Amara called, calming her friend down before she says something that she'd later end up doing. "Let it be."

"Let it be?" Melanie exclaimed, watching with narrowed eyes as Amara walked to the kitchen and picked out a bottle of water from the fridge, pouring some for herself and drinking it. "Tobias acts the way he does after nearly mistreating you for years and then later threatening you for a divorce and you say I should 'leave it be." She scoffed. "How do you expect me to leave it be?"

Amara smiled softly. "Because I want you to. If I start giving a flying fuck about him again, he'll win. So I'm just going to treat him like he's a stranger and strangers don't deserve my attention." Saying this, she walked over and handed a glass of water to Melanie. As she accepted the water, Melanie couldn't help but look at her friend in a way that showed she had more than one thing to say.

""What?" Amara asked.

"You're being too...calm. Is this because Tobias showed some interest in you? Because it seemed like he cared about what you were doing? Do you regret divorcing him?"

Amara was silent for a few seconds before she shook her head. "Firstly, I don't regret divorcing him. It was the best decision I've ever made. Secondly," There was a pause in her speech, extra seconds of silence before she continued. "Tobias doesn't care about me or what I do, that back there, was simply his pride."

Inhaling deeply, Amara added. "News of the divorce has barely been made public, so he must have been worried that I'd smear the Larsen name if someone recognized me in the club."

She shook her head and released a sigh. "Tobias doesn't care about me. The only thing he cares about is his family name, Labyrinth...and Celestine, so don't think too much into his actions." That was the concluding word for the topic.

Saying no more, Amara took the now empty glass from Melanie's hand and walked back to the kitchen, leaving her friend to stare at her bad with a look of concern.

After hearing what Amara had said, it had only dawned on Melanie how stupid her words had sounded.

Of course Tobias didn't care! And Amara sure as hell did not regret divorcing that scum bag, not after everything she had been through.

Just thinking about how sad Amara had been throughout her years married to Tobias made Melanie angry.

It made her so angry and furious, that she wished she could slap some sense into Tobias and show him what an absolute fool he was.ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

"Stupid bastard." She cursed under her breath as she got up, walked to the kitchen and hugged Amara from the back. "I'm sorry."

"Sorry for what?" Amara asked, feeling a bit perplexed by her friends behavior.

"For making such an assumption and ruining the mood." Melanie apologized and tightened her hug. "Of course you don't regret divorcing that scum bag, and even if you did, I won't let you go back to him because he doesn't deserve you. You're kind and sweet, funny and smart, not to mention a total bad ass. That asshole doesn't deserve you."

Amara laughed at her friend's words, but Melanie meant every single thing she had said.

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To her, Amara was an amazing person and a very close friend, who didn't deserve all the shit Tobias had put her through. If not for Amara, Melanie knew she wouldn't be here today, not when her high school bullies had bullied her so bad that she found herself standing on the roof of their school one day.

If not for Amara's encouragement, Melanie knew she wouldn't have survived high school.

Amara was the only reason she was still here, and also the only reason why she had followed her dream of building a cosmetic brand. All that was made possible because Amara had taken her hand that day, and Melanie was forever grateful.