Ex-husband’s Regret by Lean

Chapter 69

I kindly pointed her in the right direction. "If you hope your child isn't illegitimate, go find Ryan and ask him to hurry up with the divorce, understood? Don't make a scene here. If you end up having a miscarriage, you'll lose one more bargaining chip to marry into the Frost family. See her out."

Finally, I instructed her assistant.

Jessica was furious and probably thought I had a point, so she just left.

And the direction I pointed her in worked quite

effectively.

As for how I knew, in the afternoon, I received a call from Ryan.

"What did you say to her?" he asked as soon as I answered the call.

I paused and said, "I didn't say much, just that she urged me to divorce you and I told her to talk to you."

His tone became colder. "You didn't tell her to go die?!

Was she trying to exaggerate things?

I In't surprised that Jessica would do this. Softening my voice, I said, "I only said that because I was provoked. She called me a prostitute pretending to be virtuous, a disaster for my step-parents, and said I'm shameless for clinging to other men and threatened to have someone beat me to death..."

I recalled Jessica's words

I

I was just adding some

stunned, his voice

know her better than

she tally rau

line for a moment before he sighed.

I smirked. "Sure."

typical for men

the one hand, he questioned me because of Jessica's words, and on the other, he could ask me not to argue with

say that to

bed that her curses were like a string

crazy. They're out of their goddamn

spirit to curse?" I quickly handed her a cup

evening, I received a call from her. Nothing unusual, she was

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hospital bed, receiving an IV, looking pitiful. I almost pitied her if it weren't for the snacks that other people in the ward had

"You heartless bitch. Wasn't

"I'm not actually upset."

the past couple of days, I had