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

more steps towards her. Cindy found

"Fine. I'm sorry, okay? I just

faltered as awkwardly as

hers. Cindy felt small under his scrutiny. She crossed her arms to prevent them from shaking before him. Kage cast a fleeting

head towards it. "You

pony.

like hers," Kage's reply

again. She dropped

dressed like her today." He

glanced down at her dress. "It's a jumpsuit,

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

going

her

with looking like me, huh?"

he stood before the

not good

unlocked from his wrist hanging in his

the table. "You seem

you think you'd be good enough

knew that if she had to say

going isn't a real relationship, and you know it. You agreed to being used by me-

her legs to stay

wanted me." He ran a finger along her cheekbone. "I guess you must be excited having one of your greatest dreams achieved. We may

finally broke free. She sniffled, stepping

hands 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 a

cruel, but one day, she'll make him hers.

out." He dismissed her as he

*****

the phone in her hand, particularly at the last sent text

she's sent to her strange texter. It's been three days since she got the first text from

but it turned out the text had been sent from a burner phone which was