Divorced, But Not Broken
Divorced, but Not broken Chapter 212

"Elena, could you get this to Mr. Miller?" I was calling out to the secretary when she didn't answer my curses. What the f**k was that girl up to now!? I bet she was hooking up with some of the suits. She was pretty, young, and unreliable like I had told Joseph the last three weeks. He suddenly didn't give a shit about my opinion anymore. No matter how good I was at my job, he ignored me, and at first, I didn't care since he needed time to cool off from what happened with Jonah, but now.... shit, he was hating me for something that I didn't do! I had never mocked him more than he did to me, and we didn't mean it, not like that!

I made another swearword, pulling the oversized cardigan around me and walking out of my freezing office, still pissed over my secretary being missing when I followed the significant corridor down to Joseph's office that was located furthest down so he could keep tabs on us, we all knew it when I was taking longer strides in my high heels, I was going to tell that motherfucker that if he didn't start caring about me or what the f**k I did for his company, I was leaving, for real this time!

"JOSEPH!" my voice was loud and accusing in the empty place when I did a lap, turning around like he was f*****g hiding from me. I bet he was that f*****g coward; since Jonah moved in with me and we got back together, it was like Joseph and mine friendship was fading, and I didn't like that at all!

I made an irritated sound throwing the papers of my last sale that he needed to confirm on the big desk that had nothing on it, not a f*****g photo or anything, unlike mine, which was littered with pictures of the kids. I even had Jonah since we got back together, and I didn't care if it was stupid.

That was it! I was going to get the girl fired when the racket from one of the cleaning closets was heard. She could keep her s*x at home and not bring it here like a goddamn animal. I fucking worked here!

"Elena, get your fucking panties up right now, and that dickhead you are fucking out here!" I was using my mom voice, and I knew it; the one that was sick of hearing the shit around me and just wanted everyone to be f*****g behave, being at work or not! The sounds of chuckling were heard when I had crossed my arms, sighing and tapping with my shoe, not having any patience for a girl that was more interested in f*****g than doing her job, the one that she was hired for, and not blowing guys in the closet! "Hi..." Seeing Joseph standing there with a weird smirk, I made an O-face, having the door closed so that I couldn't see who he had inside, that sneaking bastard! Why was he fucking someone at work!? He had plenty of space in his home that I had never been invited

to!

"Are you cheating on me!?" I leaned closer, scowling, narrowing my eyes, when Joseph dropped the stupid smirk on his face like he wasn't expecting me to bust his balls. Well, obviously, he didn't know since that was all that I was planning right now for ghosting me when he was my fucking boss!

"I'm your fiancé, and you are fucking someone else than me in the cleaning closet. Don't you love me anymore, Joseph!?" I was smirking at the end when he had lost all playfulness that he had. Now he was just pissed at me. What!? I was his fiancé, according to his mother!

"You fucking bitch..." he was mumbling when the guy on the inside was whispering, accusing me of leaning back and seeing the door opening to Joseph flustered. He was going to kill me; there was no doubt he was already planning my murder inside his pretty little head.

"Love you too...." Joseph didn't answer that when he didn't look like he wanted to play games making my stomach turn. What? He wasn't going to banter with me, not even the slightest!? So, he really was pissed, then!?

A man was rushing out. He looked annoyed when he didn't stop and say anything, just gone when I was staring after him, just like Joseph, who looked upset, and it was all my fault.

"Why the fuck did you have to do that!? Are you having fun ruining my life just like that fucker you are dating again!?" Joseph had snapped his eyes back to me, sweaty and looking like he wanted to kill me, his eyes burning when he was cursing at me some more, wanting me to leave. I wasn't sure what to do. He was so pissed when I was pulling the cardigan closer around me. I was just kidding.... is it not like he was any better?!

"Joseph... I'm sorry...." I tried to make him see that I didn't mean to scare off the guy. He could go after him; tell him it was all just a joke and that I was a stupid bitch for saying shit that wasn't true.

"You're fired." I gasped several times when he was glaring at me. He didn't mean that, did he?! I needed this paycheck more than anything! If I was fired, I wouldn't be able to support my kids or the house payments I made, so Buck didn't have to move out! "What!?" I was grasping around the soft knitting that he seemed to have noticed, starting to smirk at me like he thought I looked stupid with the big fluffy thing around me. Well, I know I did! I didn't wear it around clients, and he knew that!

"You fucking heard me! You have fired Andrea. Take your shit and leave!" He was pointing at the elevator furthest down the hallway when I still didn't believe he had just said that! I was the best sales boss he had, and he fucking knew that, and I didn't fuck clients even if they sure wanted that!

"Are you fucking kidding me? I'm fired!? I said I was fucking sorry, and you want to get rid of me!? Joseph, I had made three percent more this quarter, and you still are firing me!?" He made a slight twitch hearing me. He knew it was true. I was not the same woman who kept my head down and avoided eye contact. Sure, I still hated people, but that didn't mean that I could f*****g fake it, same as everyone else!

"So what!? Those numbers are nothing, Andrea! I have guys who make twice as much and are not on this floor! I did this as a f*****g favor because you are my friend. Don't you f*****g get that, or has Jonah finally f****d your brains out!?" Joseph was wiping his forehead, his face was red, and his glasses were steaming up. That fucker!

"Oh, don't fuck me over and tell me this isn't all about Jonah. You stopped talking to me the second you found out we got back together, and you know it!" I was pointing my finger at him, not caring that I was screaming over the whole floor, seeing that it was six and most people were gone, including my f*****g useless secretary!

"Not everything is about that bastard, but you don't get that since you are fucking him all the time!" I took a step back in my heels, seeing Joseph growling back at me. Shit! He was really f*****g mad at me, and I didn't even know why. He couldn't be that upset over the guy in the closet!? Wasn't that his f*****g boyfriend or what!?

"He is my fiancé, so excuse me if I want to fuck him!?" I made a growl back at his aggression; if he thought I was going to just lay down flat and take it, he had another thing coming!

Joseph was the one that stumbled back now like I had hit him when he showed me with his whole face; he wasn't happy hearing that, making me shake my head at him. Was he fucking kidding me now!? He wasn't fucking excited to hear that!? He said that we wouldn't last, and here we were trying to make it work, exes, kids, and f*****g Fiona! That was more than he ever had done!

"Yeah, that is right, you bitch, he asked me to marry him; as soon as the divorce is done, we are getting fucking married, and I don't think you are invited the way you are fucking acting!" Joseph looked lost when I was so pissed that I wanted to choke him out! Wasn't it enough that he was fucking cheap and didn't turn up the thermostat in this place so that I had to die from freezing my a*s off smiling at people all day!?

"Andrea, no... don't marry him, please..." He was staring at me like he didn't know what to say, and I didn't either. Was he seriously begging me not to marry Jonah, whom I loved more than any other guy!? That was f*****g bullshit!

"Why?! Why are you so fucking against me being with him? I love him!" I was taking a step closer, seeing the panic on his face when I just wanted to know why; it wasn't so f*****g hard to tell me when he was staring at the floor, like he had forgotten that he had told me to get the fuck out when I reached out, taking his shoulder with my hand, squeezing it hard, he was going to fucking tell me.

"I'm sorry Andrea, I made a mistake.... I made one fucking mistake and...." He stopped when the tears started to fall from nowhere, my hand still on his shoulder, and I had no idea what was happening. Joseph was crying! He didn't do that, ever! He was more a fucking stone than a human, and even I knew that, and he looked like he was one second from freaking out and wanting to run and hide from everyone!

"What fucking mistake!?" I was shaking him the slightest when he finally looked up, had his glasses off, and looked like he didn't know what to do anymore, making me angrier; if this was so bad, why the fuck hadn't he told me sooner!?

"I was so afraid and... I had to tell them, you know!? they were going to f*****g kill me, and I don't have anyone that saves me, not like you!" He was starting to hyperventilate when I made a scowl. What the f**k did he tell who!? "Nobody came for me.... Nobody..." he was still crying when I felt like the worst friend in the world. He was alone, and he just told me that. He said he had a circle, but let's be honest, he wasn't the kind of man to have friends, not real ones.

"Oh god... Joseph...." I was saying it like I knew that whatever he was going to tell me wouldn't be good; it just wasn't when he grabbed my arms and shook me back like he was scared beyond belief. I had only seen that face on someone else, and he was dead, gone in plastic, making me gulp, shit this was bad!

"I'm dead, Andrea, you hear me!? I'm fucking dead no matter what the fuck I do!" He was panicking more when I didn't know what to do. He wasn't going to die, I was going to call Jonah, and he would figure it out. He always did!

"Okay, take deep fucking breaths, and let me get my phone, I'm going to call Jonah, and we can fix this. I swear, Joseph, I will help you, no matter what; I will come for you and Jonah too!" I was trying to find his eyes all over the place, not even being able to focus on mine with his own that still flooded with heavy tears, scared shitless.

"You can't! You hear me, Andrea, don't f*****g call him!" Joseph was holding me tighter, making my upper arms hurt when he made a sound that I couldn't take as more than just pure fear of death.

"He is going to fucking kill me; don't you understand that? If they don't kill me, he will! I'm going to die, and I don't want you to marry him. He kills people! Andrea, please, you must take the kids, leave, and never come back!" Joseph looked more like he would do the same: run and never come back. I stared at him. He was serious, wasn't he? Where the fuck would he run anyway? Even I knew that once someone wanted to find you, they did.

"Joseph, listen carefully to me now. You just fucked some guy in the closet, and now you are telling me to leave the only guy I loved more than anything because you are going to do the same, no! just let me f*****g call and...." I stopped when he started to laugh; it was loud and almost hysterical when he let me go, taking off his glasses and looking like he felt sorry for me, just like everyone else.

"Fucked? I didn't fuck anyone, babe...." He was fading out when I was looking over him, taking another shocked breath; I had thought he looked roughed up because he was f*****g someone, but now when I really observed him, he had bruising around his neck; it was fresh, and his cheek was swollen like it hadn't really begun spreading before he had started to freak out on me.

"We are calling Jonah right fucking now, and that is it!" I wasn't waiting anymore, seeing that someone had been trying to choke him out in the fucking closet! What the fuck would have happened if I wasn't such a bitch and he didn't even call out for help!? "Shut up!" I wasn't even listening to Joseph when he walked after me, trying to tell me to stop like I was going to let that slide. Somebody had been trying to kill him or showed him they could!

I was grabbing Joseph's jacket, dragging him back when he tried to run for it, and he didn't even fight back anymore, sinking his a*s down on the sofa before me. He was broken.

"Jonah, get over here, we have a f*****g problem!" my voice was dark when he took a deep breath on the other side, hanging up, already on his way, me thanking God that he got it. Joseph was still on the sofa when I was leaning down and taking his hand, trying to comfort him and hoping to God that Jonah could fix whatever fucking mess he had gotten himself in.

"it's going to be okay, Joseph, I promise...." I smiled when he didn't even look up at me like he had already given up hope. Oh god...