My Assassin Husband Pointed His Gun At The Mafia Queen Chapter 09
I Send My Husband Away
Adrian looks thinner when Ellie and I see him again.
The wound in his shoulder has healed.
Everything else hasn’t.
A guard opens the door.
Ellie stops beside me.
Adrian looks at her.
For a moment, nobody speaks.
Then he kneels.
“Ellie.”
She doesn’t run to him.
That hurts him more than any bullet could.
“Are you going away?” she asks.
“Yes.”
“Because you hurt Mommy?”
His eyes close briefly.
“Because I hurt both of you.”
Ellie looks at me.
She turns back to him.
“Did you love Vanessa more than us?”
“No.”
“Then why did you pick her?”
He has no answer.
Ellie’s eyes fill with tears.
Adrian reaches toward her, then stops before touching her.
“I’m sorry.”
She doesn’t forgive him.
Neither do I.
A few minutes later, the guards take him away.
He looks back once.
I don’t stop them.
By nightfall, Adrian is on his way to the island.
Ellie and I return home.
The main house feels different now.
There’s still one photograph from our wedding in the back of a drawer.
I find it while putting away Ellie’s things.
I look at the photo for a moment, then close the drawer.
Adrian was once my husband.
Now he’s part of my past.
I take Ellie’s hand and leave the room.