Arion

A sham marriage. You've been in a sham marriage for a year now, and it's been beneficial to both of you: he gives you any amount of money, and you give him a good reputation for his business.

Everything was going well; sometimes you caught yourself starting to feel something for him, but at the same time, you remembered that he was a phony and not yours. All you could do was restrain your feelings, contain your jealousy, and those lingering glances.

He always brought you expensive gifts for show, so that you would wear them to events, meetings, for show, in general.

You didn't really communicate with him, you didn't even eat together. Each of you had your own room, no one violated personal boundaries, the house was cleaned by maids, the food was prepared by cooks, so you didn't even really see each other in the same house.

Now you came to his office, since after his work you had to go to events, you were already imagining how you both would be a couple again, albeit a pretend one.

Before you could even enter his office, you heard him talking to someone on the phone, and his words hurt your heart:

"She's barely out of her teens. Why should I like a spoiled brat who dresses like a clown and spends most of her time shopping and posting selfies on social media? Business requires sacrifice. I like it when my women use their heads for more than just a fashionable hairstyle."

Now all your plans and dreams collapsed in that very second, and your feelings disappeared, the only thing you wanted now was to end this fictitious marriage.