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-"

forward. "I thought I made myself explicitly clear when I said you couldn't

her. Cindy found them threatening and found

neck. "Fine. I'm sorry, okay? I just thought I could do something

it faltered as awkwardly as

her, his eyes boring holes into hers. Cindy felt small under his scrutiny. She crossed her arms to prevent

head towards it. "You

she touched the pony. "Well, yes.

It's not like hers," Kage's

face vanished again. She dropped

not dressed like her today." He lowered his eyes to her

Cindy glanced down at her

as he spoke. "She doesn't like it. Today, you look just

her, going to stand before his

her

what's so wrong with looking like me, huh?" She turned to

was facing her as he stood before the

I not

unlocked from his

calmly, he set it down on the table. "You seem

the table. "If you didn't have a purpose, do you think you'd be good enough to walk through my gates? I'd have ordered my men to shoot you

in her throat. Cindy knew that if she had to

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

her legs to stay rooted to the ground and not

We may have sex, Cindy, but each time I take you to bed, I want you to

tear finally broke free. She sniffled,

she could taste her blood. Kage's cruelty wasn't new to her. He'd made her understand he could never love her when he offered the deal to her two years ago.

Kage could continue being cruel, but one day, she'll make him hers. He'll belong only to her

out." He dismissed her as

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

strange texter. It's been three days since she

it turned out the