Chapter 115 - Cheers to Comeuppance
Chapter 57 pt. 2
Agatha Galloway stirred awake after what felt like a lifetime of sleep. She felt like her entire body was stiff. She realized she was confined to a chair when she tried to move. She struggled against the restraints but to no avail.
“So, it appears that you’re awake,” an all too familiar voice said to her.
“David?” she gasped in shock. Without answering her, Mr. Galloway ripped off the black sack over her head when she saw the home they had once shared before Sadie’s infamy; it cost them everything. “What is the meaning of this? Why am I tied up?”
“Did you honestly think you could avoid the inevitable, Aggie?”
“What are you—”
“Did you think you could hide from me and avoid signing the divorce papers?! Oh wait, let me correct myself. Since you already married someone else when we married, I only need an annulment. However, I still need your signature to ensure you get nothing out of it!”
“David, please don’t do this. We’ve been together for over twenty years. How can you throw away our love over something so trivial?”
“Trivial? Trivial!? You think that lying about your identity and the paternity of Sadie for those said twenty years is fucking trivial!?” David Galloway bellowed in her face. His saliva sprayed onto her face, and she turned away in fear. David rarely raised his voice in their two decades of being together. “I doted on you, my wife, every day and worked hard to give you the moon and the stars. Anything you had ever desired. But how did you repay me!? With nothing but lies!”
“Yes, I admit it; I lied about who I was and about Sadie. But I truly did love you!”
“LIES! You spew nothing but lies from that filthy mouth of yours! Because that’s what you are! You’re filth!”
“David, how can you say that to me!?”
“I’m stating facts. You were already tainted when we met!”
“You weren’t a saint either! You cheated on your then fiancé to be with me! What’s the difference!?”
“The difference was that I wasn’t already married with a kid on the way!” he spat at her. Mrs. Galloway closed her eyes by sheer instinct, and the tears she had been holding back finally fell. “You’re vile, Agatha, and I want nothing to do with you anymore. You will sign the annulment, and you will leave my sight.”
“David, this is the only home I’ve ever known. You’re my only family. You and Sadie. Where am I supposed to go?! What am I supposed to do?!”
“I don’t care what happens to you as of this moment. From the moment I learned that you lied to me about everything, you were dead to me.”
“David, please …”
“SIGN THE DAMN PAPERS!” he thundered.
“I won’t! You can’t make me!”
“Want to bet on that?” Mr. Galloway gestured for his men to come over. They untied one of Mrs. Galloway’s hands and forced her to grip the pen.
“Stop! You can’t do this! David! Stop this!” she pleased; however, her pleas fell on deaf ears. Mr. Galloway held up a document with her signature already, and the men holding her arm and hand forged her signature onto the annulment papers. Even though the signatures were not an exact match, they were enough to file with the city court to officiate the annulment of their sham of a marriage. They also forced her to sign away any rights she had as the hostess of the Galloway family, which meant that anything and everything in the Galloway household had been rescinded back to its original ownership, solely David Galloway.
Mrs. Galloway shed tears of sorrow, seeing how ruthless her husband truly was. She knew his bottom line, but she always bet he would never find the truth. Unfortunately for her, secrets never stay secrets forever, and it was all thanks to Leon. Leon repaid her a hundredfold because she had a hand in ruining his marriage with Sadie and defrauding him out of millions in assets. He didn’t just end her marriage to David and ensure she lost her wealth, image, and dignity as a member of the affluent circle of elites. She had been belittled into nothing.
“David, how could you force my hand like this?” she sobbed.
“You forced my hand first. Now get out!” he demanded. He snapped his fingers, which signaled for the men he hired to untie her completely and throw her out without anything of her belongings.
“At least let me pack up my things!”
“Nothing in this house is yours anymore. This document states that anything bought with my money is now mine. And the last I checked, everything in this house, including your so-called belongings, was purchased with my money!”
“What!?”
“And you signed away everything of yours and your bastard daughter’s as well. I’ve lost everything because of the two of you. So, to try and salvage what is left of my wealth, I will sell all of your designer clothes, handbags, and jewelry!”
“YOU CAN’T DO THAT!?”
“I can, and I will. Now get out of my sight, you wretched woman!” he shouted and slammed the door in her face.
As she fell to her knees and sobbed in sorrow, Annika and everyone else was at the penthouse celebrating the official engagement of her and Leon. Leon and his company released an official statement on their social media pages that Leon was engaged to Annika Silverton. The Silverton’s and their slew of family businesses also released official statements of Annika’s identity as the youngest Silverton child and sole heir to the Silverton fortune. Land and Mall also released an official statement regarding the change in Annika’s surname and that she will now be referred to as Dr. Silverton until her marriage to Leon becomes official, which she will then be referred to as Dr. Von Doren.