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-"

took a step forward. "I thought I made myself explicitly clear when I said you couldn't come to the house without informing

found them threatening and found herself retreating on

"Fine.

a smile, but it faltered as awkwardly as it had

his scrutiny. She

his head towards it. "You changed

the pony.

like hers," Kage's reply was instant and

on Cindy's face vanished again. She

today." He lowered his eyes to

down at her

voice remained scokd as he spoke. "She doesn't like it.

walked past her, going to stand before his

rolled her eyes and blinked

so wrong with looking like me,

stood before the dresser, taking

I not

paused, the watch he'd unlocked from his wrist

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

turned around to face her, leaning his waist against the table. "If you didn't have a purpose, do you think you'd be good enough to walk through my

thick lump formed in her throat. Cindy knew that if she had to say a word,

a deal, didn't we? What we have going isn't a real relationship, and you know it. You agreed to being used by me- however

forcing her legs to stay rooted to the ground and not

one of your greatest dreams achieved. We may have sex, Cindy, but each time I take you to bed, I want you to know

broke free. She sniffled, stepping back and away from his

crossed, her teeth digging 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 love her when he offered the deal to her two years ago. Yet, there was

continue being cruel,

dismissed her as he

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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

but it turned out the text had