"What, can't stand even a single day without him? Mrs. Douglas, it's been a day since we married, and I've yet to see you smile. But with Calvin, you're so visibly affected. Do you remember you're now married to me?"

Interrupting him, Alexis retorted, "Did you marry me just to make sarcastic remarks? Leonel, yes, I do want a child, and I kept that from you. If it's unbearable for you, there are other ways. You wanted this marriage—"

“But I never asked you to keep seeing Calvin," Leonel cut in sharply.

"Alexis, what if I insist that you stop seeing him? I really can't stand his presence in our lives."

Alexis wanted to protest, to say she couldn't agree to that, but she didn't want to escalate the situation.