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-"

a step forward. "I thought I made myself explicitly clear when

two more steps towards her. Cindy found them threatening and found

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

a smile, but it faltered as awkwardly

scrutiny. She crossed her

tipped his head

touched the pony. "Well, yes. Do you like

hers," Kage's reply was instant

face vanished again. She dropped her eyes nervously

dressed like her today." He lowered his eyes to

her

spoke.

walked past her, going to stand

glistened with tears. She rolled her eyes

looking like me, huh?" She

her as he stood before the dresser,

not

watch he'd unlocked from his wrist hanging

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

have a purpose, do you think you'd be good enough to walk through my gates? I'd

that if she had to say a word, she'd burst into

going isn't a real relationship, and you know it. You agreed to being used by me- however I want it. And in return,

stay rooted to the ground

along her cheekbone. "I guess you must be excited having one of your greatest dreams achieved. We may have sex, Cindy, but each time I take

free. She sniffled, stepping back and away from

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

continue being cruel, but one

Get out." He dismissed her as he turned and walked into

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at the last sent text in her inbox: 'Why aren't you saying anything? I've been trying to reach

of 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

the number, but it turned out the text