Nine months too late: After divorce by Baby Charlene

Chapter 79

Sylvie's fingers trembled slightly as she hovered over the send button. She'd rewritten her message at least a dozen times, each version sounding either too desperate or too indifferent. Finally, she took a deep breath and forced herself to hit send.

Sylvie: Kage, can we talk?

She set the phone down and leaned back on the couch, exhaling slowly as she rubbed her palm over the slight swell of her belly.

The chime of her phone made her flinch. She grabbed it, her pulse jumping as Kage's reply flashed on the screen.

He replied with his address, nothing more.

She stared at the message, biting her lip. He hadn't asked why she wanted to talk, but she was surprised he even replied her at all.

The ride felt endless. What was she going to say? 'Why did you do it?' No, that sounded too accusatory. that to Lana?' Worse. She'd left him, pushed him away, and now here she was, rushing back to him. 'How could you

do

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Finally, she pulled up in front of the sleek, modern building. It was one of Kage's private apartments, one he rarely used - so exclusive that not even his family knew much about it. The entrance was guarded, but the doorman had already been informed of her arrival and let her in without a word."

She rode the elevator up, the silence in the small space almost suffocating.

When the doors slid open, she stepped into a dimly lit hallway, her gaze catching on the dark, polished wood of the Sapartment door at the end. She swallowed hard, her steps faltering for just a moment before she forced herself forward. Raising her hand, she knocked lightly.

passed before the door

spoke. Then Kage stepped aside, his gaze

she stepped inside. The apartment was quiet, filled only with the faint scent of cedar and something uniquely

his gaze intense, studying her with a look that

it?" He

shorts and a T-shirt - looking as casual as she's always liked. But he looked like

h

news," she murmured. "About the wedding." Sylvie swallowed, willing herself to

she'd have rolled her eyes at his

know why." She crossed her arms over her chest. "Why did you do it, Kage?

altar?"

his hair. "Because I couldn't

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blinked, taken aback.

Sylvie? I couldn't marry into another loveless marriage. Not again." His voice hardened, his jaw

his gaze swinging back to hers. "Didn't mean to leave me? Didn't

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she burst out, the words slipping free before she could stop them. "Your family - they threatened me, Kage. They told me

expression darkening, fury building in his eyes. "What did you

me. They said if I didn't leave you, they'd make my life hell. They were the reasons my father's company was locked down some days ago. So I left. I thought it would be

clenched into fists, his jaw