Nine months too late: After divorce by Baby Charlene

Chapter 124

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"What do I do with the dress?" Raphael asked as he and Kage stepped out of the car and began walking towards the house.

Kage was silent, a maid coming to take his jacket as soon as he stepped into the house.

He watched her go off, probably taking it to the laundry room.

"I don't care. I just don't wanna see it around," he grumped.

"Okay," Raphael shrugged. "I'll just stay here and finish what I have to do."

Kage went up the stairs while Raphael settled into the living room, turning on his system.

Approaching his bedroom, his steps slowed when he noticed his door was slightly open. There was someone in his room.

A frown creased his brows. Who dared to enter his personal space?

He walked into the room and found her in front of the mirror, touching her hair.

She turned to look at him and her eyes

lit

up

with a smile.

"Hey! You're home!" Cindy happily approached him.

"What're you doing here?" The ice in Kage's voice made her freeze halfway. "I don't remember having this conversation with you."

"Um... I thought I should surprise you. You know, I had some extra time and-"

"I thought I made myself explicitly clear

towards her. Cindy found them

the back of her neck. "Fine. I'm sorry, okay? I just thought I

but it faltered

mere inches from her, his eyes boring holes into hers. Cindy felt small under his scrutiny. She crossed her arms to prevent them from shaking before him. Kage cast

hair." He tipped his head towards it. "You changed

pony. "Well, yes. Do you like

It's not like hers," Kage's reply was instant

face vanished again. She dropped her eyes nervously shifting

today." He lowered his

down at her dress. "It's a

spoke.

past her, going to

tears. She rolled her eyes and

looking like me, huh?" She turned to his

he stood before the dresser, taking off

I not good

from his wrist hanging in his

it down on the table. "You seem

you think you'd be good enough to walk

in her throat. Cindy knew that if she

we? What we have going isn't a real relationship, and you know it. You agreed to being used by me- however I want it. And in return, I let people think you actually

Cindy sniffed, forcing her legs to stay rooted to the ground and not

of your greatest dreams achieved. We may have sex, Cindy, but

finally broke free. She sniffled,

into the flesh of her inner cheeks so hard she could taste her blood. Kage's cruelty wasn't new to her. He'd made her understand he could never

cruel, but one day, she'll make him hers. He'll belong only to her and

He dismissed her as he

*****

in her eyes as she stared at the phone in her hand, particularly at the last sent text in her inbox:

the number of messages she's sent to her strange texter. It's been three days since she got the first text from them, and they were

to help track the number, but it turned out the text had been