Leonel, knowing that she wouldn't scream, carried her to the bathroom as quietly as he could and locked the door from inside. But as he turned to face her, she gave him a stinging slap.

"Leonel, what else do you want, huh?!" she shouted at him. "Because of what happened between you and Anika, people now discuss about me every day. I was hospitalized again and again because of you! What else do I owe you? Why do you keep pestering and humiliating me like this?"

But Leonel didn't care about the slap and scolding at all.

He roughly pinned her to the bathroom door and her nightgown's strip fell again. She tried to pull it up, but he didn't let her.

Holding her waist, he buried his handsome face in her neck and asked in a low voice, “Are you taking the kids abroad with Timmy? You Like Timmy and you want to be with him, right?"

Leonel had found out the previous night that Timmy had gone through the formalities to enable him go abroad for further studies at the end of the year.

When Alexis heard these questions, she raised her head to look at him.

She had no idea that Timmy was going abroad. But since Leonel had confronted her, she decided to play along. She hated him so much that she was determined to make him angry. "Yes, so what?" she retorted with a sneer. "How does it concern you? It's none of your business who I go abroad with, who I decide to be with, or even who I sleep with. Do you hear me? It's none of your damn business!"

"Really?" Leonel gritted his teeth.

“Are you going to rape me again?" Alexis scoffed with a mocking smile on her face. “What else can you do apart from that now? Don't make me despise you even more."

Apparently, she still couldn't let go of that painful night, after all. As she spoke, tears welled up in her eyes.

Seeing the tears in Alexis' eyes, Leonel immediately felt sorry for her.

He reached out to wipe her tears away, but Alexis jerked back, saying sharply, “Don't touch me... Leave me alone, Leonel!”

She was clearly upset with him.

In the warm bathroom light, they looked at each other.

Leonel's eyes showed his deep feelings, while Alexis seemed determined to move on. After a tense silence, she said softly, "Yes, it's true I'm going overseas with Evelyn and Daniel, but Timmy isn't coming with us. Leonel, you don't have to worry about that. Can you just leave me be from now on?"

With those words, she adjusted her nightdress, feeling awkward about being so close to Leonel in such a small space.

The bathroom was quiet, and their children were asleep in the next room. What should have been a private, intimate moment felt completely wrong to her.

Leonel backed away and leaned against the wash basin, a part of him craving a cigarette. But he quickly dismissed the thought.

Facing his ex-wife for the first time since their separation, Leonel opened up about his relationship with Anika. “Initially, I only wanted to get a rise out of you, maybe see how you would react. As our marriage grew more frustrating, I found myself reaching out to Anika increasingly. But Alexis, I've never loved her," Leonel confessed earnestly.