Divorce Time

Chapter 316

Kendal was genuinely upset. Ignoring Thorne, he turned to Charlene with a determined look. Let’s go, Charlene. How about we grab some dinner?”

Charlene set down her coffee mug, smiled, and stood up. “Sure.”

Without sparing Thorne another glance, Kendal and Charlene headed out the door together.

Thorne remained seated on the couch, sipping his coffee with an air of nonchalance. He neither followed them nor tried to stop them from leaving.

Vesta watched as Charlene and Kendal walked away, uncertainty in her eyes. “What just happened?”

Thorne calmly reassured her, “Don’t worry about it, give it some time.”

In other words, he believed that with time, Kendal would come to terms with everything and eventually accept

her?

Charlene and Thorne’s marriage had been a rocky road, something Kendal had witnessed first–hand over the past few years.

From the very beginning, Thorne had never been particularly fond of Charlene.

And now, he had someone else he was interested in.

Irma and Kendal, among other older family

he had always been the type who couldn’t be

if Irma or Kendal disapproved of Thorne’s relationship with Vesta, they couldn’t really change his mind, nor persuade him otherwise.

could only keep it bottled up. As he thought about it, Kendal gave Charlene’s hand a comforting pat. “The last few years have been

moved on, Kendal. I have a new life now, and I’m doing well. You don’t have to

returned her smile, relieved. “That’s good

back at The Underwood Mansion, only to find

informing Jasmine, as Charlene received

it, Charlene let the call go to

for dinner, she noticed an invitation card

it, she discovered it was an invitation to Irma’s seventy–fifth

still some time before

throw big birthday parties over the past decade,

had taken this to heart, keeping her birthdays low–key

decade had passed, Lloyd Henderson and Thorne had already talked

the big

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finalizing the details.

of her room, noticing the invitation in Charlene’s