Chapter 110
If it had been before, I would have made a scene if he had wanted to take Lilian home.”
Justin’s expression turned cold because I didn’t return and he agreed with Lilian.
After returning home, he saw something on the table as soon as he pushed the door.
It was a very eye–catching divorce certificate with his name on it.
Justin froze, standing by the table as if rooted to the spot.
His fingers stiffly reached out, flipping through it, verifying, looking again and again, almost in disbelief.”
“Justin, did you and her really get divorced?” Lilian, still pretending to be drunk, tilted her head. She blinked in surprise once she saw what he was holding.”
Justin didn’t hear what Lilian said at all. In that instant, many things flashed through his mind.”
Five years ago, her grandmother had arranged for me to marry him.”
At that time, the whole city said I was a fake heiress and a joke, but I still held my head proudly and tried to become “Mrs. Sutherland.”
I never humbled myself, yet I was always willing to put aside my pride for him.
I would fall silent at a simple “Aren’t you annoying?” but still remember all his dietary habits.
My attempts to flirt with him were clumsy, unlike the rumors of me being a promiscuous social butterfly.
Justin could be sure that I really liked him.
After all, how could you not feel the heat when you’re close to a fire?”
When he thought of this, his breathing became erratic.}]
He had always thought it would be him if one of them were to leave first, to mention divorce.
So why??
Why was I the one who left first?}
I left so decisively.}}
Without leaving a single explanation.
He couldn’t even figure out when I had finalized the divorce without him knowing.”
No one but Elizabeth Sutherland had the power to push something like this through so fast.
Was it because of the family punishment?}
He had only just gone to see her earlier today. Did she really handle everything that quickly?”
It felt like someone was squeezing his heart hard.”
He stared down at the two certificates, his wounds aching faintly along his back.”
Wasn’t this what he wanted?”
Although it was much faster than he had imagined, divorce was what he desired after all. This was a good thing.”
Justin returned to reality, suppressing his emotions and softly told Lilian, “Yes, we’re divorced.“}]
“Really? That’s great! Uh, no, I mean…
”
Lilian beamed at first, then quickly tried to reel it in. Her voice went soft and shy.“]
“I just meant. You didn’t love her anyway. So, getting divorced is probably for the best.”
Justin should have felt happy when he saw Lilian’s blushing face. It showed that she cared about him, too. But why did he think a suffocating tightness in his chest, as if something was blocking it?”
Later, Lilian came out wearing one of his shirts after he showered. Her damp hair clung to her collarbone and her eyes were slightly red as she walked toward him step by step.”
“Justin.”
Justin was slouched on the couch, changing the bandages on his wounds.”
When Lilian caught sight of the injuries on his back, her eyes welled up in an instant. “How did you get hurt like this? Justin, did you really go through the family punishment because of the divorce? Why would you be so stupid?“}
“Actually, I know all the good things you’ve done for me,” she said, clutching the corner of his shirt. Her voice was soft and low and the ends of her eyes were tinged with red.
“You clearly don’t like crowds, yet you still accompanied me to boring dinner parties; you’re allergic, yet you still went with me to the street seafood stalls.”
“Justin, now that you’re divorced, we
…
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Her voice was like silk drifting through the living room, wrapping around him in circles, gently drawing close.
Too bad Justin wasn’t listening.”
He lowered his head, staring at the bandage on his knee, his vision increasingly blurred.}
What appeared in his mind wasn’t the gentle–voiced Lilian before him.
It was me.
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