After Five Years Of Marriage

Chapter 1 - Sign it

Jessica paced about in the living room, waiting for her husband, Dylan Robinson, to return home from work.

She is a beautiful, overweight yellow woman, and she has been married to Dylan for five years.

She has been submissive, loving, and taking care of their home and two kids. Yet, all of a sudden, Dylan changed.

Jessica has a son and a daughter with Dylan. Her first child, Caleb, is a five-year-old boy, while her second child, Nina, is a two-year-old girl, and they were fast asleep in their separate bedrooms.

For two nights, after Dylan left for work on Monday morning, Jessica hasn't seen her husband return home. She noticed that his mood had changed before he left the house that morning.

Jessica stood in the living room and placed a call to Dylan to know where he was, but the network provider told her, “Sorry, the mobile number that you're trying to call is unavailable at the moment. Please try again later.”

“Oh! Where could Dylan be?” Jessica cursed, as she had called Dylan's phone several times, and she really needed to see her husband.

She had lied to their two kids that their father went to work on Monday morning. Yet, Dylan didn’t return home at all, and she couldn’t continue to keep up with her lies.

Jessica heard the sound of a car driving into their compound and parking. She went outside, peeked, and saw that Dylan had finally returned home.

She sighed and went back into the house to wait for Dylan to come inside.

Soon, Dylan stepped out of his car and walked into the mansion. He is a 30-year-old black man, and he owns DY Mobile Company.

He entered the living room and saw his wife, Jessica Albert, standing there in her long white nightgown. She greeted him, “Welcome home, sweetheart.”

“Hmph.” Dylan frowned.

He looked at the divorce papers in his hands that his long-time lover, Rosie Andrews, had given him, instructing him to give them to Jessica and to divorce her immediately.

Dylan walked up to meet Jessica without responding to her greeting. He stopped in front of her, thrust the divorce papers into her hands, and told her, “I cannot continue to pretend with you anymore, Jessica. Read through this divorce paper, sign it, pack your things tomorrow, and return to your father's house. You can take our kids if you want to, or you can leave them behind and leave alone. But make sure that you pack your things tomorrow and leave! I will give you some funds and shares of my company revenue and pay you off later, but this marriage is over between us, so leave.”

“What!” Jessica was taken aback by her husband's statement. She looked at the divorce papers in her hands.

‘Is this a dream?’ Jessica wondered, staring up at Dylan as she saw him walking away toward the living room stairs.

Instead of Dylan explaining to her where he had been for three days and two nights, he simply shoved divorce papers into her hands and ordered her to sign them.

Jessica snapped out of her trance and quickly called Dylan back. She asked him, “Wait, Dylan! What's the meaning of this? You just got home, and instead of explaining where you went before, you are talking to me about divorce? What has come over you, Dylan? What did I do wrong?”

Jessica looked teary, and Dylan paused and turned back to face her. He asked her, “Have you taken a good look at yourself lately in the mirror, Jessica?”

Jessica was puzzled by her husband's question and stared at herself from head to toe, trying to understand what he meant.

“Are you the same woman that I married five years ago? Take a good look at yourself, Jessica! You have turned fat overnight, and I cannot continue with you anymore! I cannot carry you and make love to you the way I want to, as you have outgrown me, and that’s just the truth! This marriage is not working anymore. Sign the divorce papers and leave!" Dylan spat in a cold voice and turned to walk away toward the living room stairs.

Jessica replied, “No, Dylan! We cannot divorce. I love you, and I'm already working on myself.”

Jessica was a banker before she met Dylan, but after giving birth to Nina, she started gaining weight at home. Dylan complained that she had become lazy and mandated that she quit her job to look after their two kids, stating that she wouldn’t leave all the work to the maid alone.

Dylan sent the poor maid away, and Jessica had thought that the maid had done something wrong, but the maid was innocent.

Dylan insisted that Jessica must cook his food, spend time with their kids, and Jessica happily did all that, thinking it would make their marriage work and please Dylan. Yet, Dylan was filing for divorce now.

Jessica cried, “No, Dylan! I cannot divorce you. After five years of our marriage? No! This cannot be happening to us.”

Dylan paused and replied, “Just sign the divorce papers and leave, Jessica! I'm not the first man to divorce his wife, and I won't be the last, either.”

Jessica tearfully asked, “What did I do wrong to you, Dylan? Why do you want to ruin our marriage?”

Dylan turned and replied, “You've turned ugly, Jessica, and you are not the same woman I married before, so leave!”

“What!” Jessica was shocked by Dylan's statement, and she looked at her husband's face in disbelief. She could smell alcohol on him and saw the red lipstick on his lips.

Jessica didn’t want to believe that Dylan was already cheating on her. She asked him, “What did you just say, Dylan? That I'm ugly now? Really?”

“Yes, Jessica! Am I lying to you? Was this how I married you before? Agreed, you're a billionaire's daughter and your father helped me establish myself, but so what? I cannot continue to pretend with you anymore! You have turned fat and are not the kind of wife I want to come home to. So leave!” Dylan spat in a cold tone, breaking Jessica's heart into pieces.

Tears streamed down her face, soaking the divorce papers in her hands.

She sobbed, “No, Dylan.. I cannot accept this divorce. I think you're getting it all wrong as it's not my fault that I'm fat now. Some women gain weight after having children, and it's not a disease.”

Dylan climbed the living room stairs and paused, staring back at Jessica. He noticed that she indeed looked innocent in her long white nightgown, and she wasn't really fat when he initially married her.

He replied, “I cannot continue to pretend with you anymore, Jessica. Take your time to read through the divorce papers and sign them. I acknowledge all your efforts in making our marriage work, as well as your family's support in the past and present, but this marriage isn’t working anymore. I cannot continue to sleep outside of my matrimonial home or pay for a hotel room when I have a luxurious duplex mansion here as my home. So sign the divorce papers and leave.”

Dylan climbed the living room stairs and returned to the master bedroom he shared with Jessica, leaving her standing alone in the living room, staring at the divorce papers in her hands.

Jessica looked back at the living room wall clock and saw that it was already after 11 PM. Yet Dylan was just returning home from work, and she knew that his company usually closed at 5 PM.

Jessica screamed, “No, Dylan! This cannot be happening to us. We can never divorce! Never!”

Tears flowed freely from her eyes, soaking the divorce papers in her hands heavily. She said, “You cannot divorce me now, Dylan! I'm not like this before, and I cannot become thin overnight just to please you.”

Jessica fell backward onto one of the seven black couches in their living room, remembering the first day she had met Dylan.

Dylan is a handsome black man, trustworthy, friendly, and the kind of man that every other woman would pray to have.

In the initial stages of their relationship, Dylan was sweet, romantic, and never got tired in bed with her. He made her want him, and she couldn't resist his s****l prowess.

If anyone had told her back then that Dylan would one day break up with her or divorce her, Jessica would have cursed that person as a hater—after all, she dated Dylan for two years before they finally got married.

But now, Dylan wanted to divorce her and end their five years of marriage, despite everything she had done for him.

Jessica exclaimed, “No, Dylan! I cannot accept this. That means you are already cheating on me with someone else. Come back here, Dylan. You need to explain to me what happened to the Dylan I met before and married. You cannot divorce me now. No! After five years of our marriage. Never! I cannot take this!”

“How can you just be returning home today after spending two days outside of our marital home, and you are telling me that I'm fat and ugly now and not the kind of wife you want to come home to? No, Dylan! I cannot accept this divorce. Dylan!” Jessica stood up from the couch and rushed back upstairs to confront her husband.