Oh Please, My Ex-wife

“Is John okay? Thank you for taking care of the children. Once I finish this, I’ll go back.” Alice understates the situation as she doesn’t want Rupert and her children to get worried.

But Rupert is cleverer than she thinks he is. He knows what happened at the wedding venue and says anxiously, “John has been worried about you. He can move his fingers, though he can’t talk. Your children are looking after him well.”

Relief sweeps through Alice as she hears that John’s hands can move. “I’m fine. I’ll go to find him as soon as I get things done here. Please tell John I’m really sorry for the wedding. I…”

“I know you didn’t mean it. I believe that John also hopes you can live a happy life.” Rupert gets sympathetic as he thinks of the bitterness in John’s eyes, together with a fleeting compromise when Alice was brought away.

He has been John’s best friends since their childhood. No one knows better about John than he does, so he can’t help but to ask Alice, “Do you still want to marry John?”

Alice pauses a beat and answers, “I just want to look after him.”

To look after…which is not to marry John.

Rupert seems to understand her and holds back his unspoken words. “Fine. I’ll tell him what you tell me.”

“Thanks.”

The call gets Alice relieved a lot as John and her children are safe. Before hanging up, Rupert says, “Something weird also happened on that day.”

“What?” Alice is confused.

“The boss of the Night Group came to the wedding venue and asked about you. His expression got strained as he knew that you were brought away by Edward Smith. Then he left.”

The Night Group?

Randall Collins?

Why was he at the wedding venue? Alice freezes as she thinks of something before lowering her eyelids. “I’ve got it. Keep me updated.”

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days since

from the study at the end of the second floor. It sounds

I’ll handle it. And

Hale family?

thinks of the wedding day when Edward left his own wedding party and took her away

let

breath and pushes the door open, taking in Edward

heart skips a beat as he’s drowning in so deep sorrow that she has

her direction. Their gazes meet, driving Alice to run away as Edward stands up, moving

her eyes and

fretting

will you let go of me,” Alice cuts Edward out and stares at him calmly, “We’re

her words. He flashes a self-taunting smile as he looks

her eyes away

Silence spills between them.

time I think about you, I just looks at the

are trembling, “You’re

“What do you say?”

corners of his lips lift upward, but he seems to cry out. The lump in Alice’s

shall I shed a tear if

I imagine you hate me to this point.” He smiles, holding

“Now that you know I don’t love you, why don’t you

you go? I allowed your leaving me five years ago, which got my life a living hell. This time, in no way will I

with her frown and takes a deep breath. “You can’t lock me

love me again,”