Reborn, Reawakened, Rekindled

Chapter 423

“Quit pretending.” I outed Neil, “I’m just a bit puzzled why you’re doing this.”

Neil responded calmly, “I just don’t want you to waste any more time.”

“Alright then,” I didn’t press the issue.

If Neil admitted he was doing this on purpose, I wouldn’t know how to react.

On our way back, Neil’s phone rang, it was a call from Karina.

He didn’t use a headset, he answered directly, so I could hear their conversation clearly.

“Neil, are you at Mitch’s place?” Karina’s voice was soft.

“Uh-huh, what’s up?” There was something about Nell’s demeanor that always seemed off to me.

Sometimes it seemed like he was really in love with Karina, yet his tone always felt distant. Sometimes I thought he was with Karina out of a sense of duty, but then there were times when I caught the way he looked at her, and it was unlike how he looked at other people.

It was all too confusing.

Karina must have been in the hospital corridor, every once in a while, you could hear someone calling for a nurse and some background chatter. But her voice was still clear, “Will you be home for dinner then? Hiram has been nagging about wanting you to take him to the carnival, there’s an event going on tonight.”

Just as Neil was about to reply, my phone also rang. It was a call from my mom, I chose to decline it and sent a text message instead.

But Karina was no fool, after a brief pause, she asked, “Why is Ms. Finch at your place?”

Neil and I exchanged glances, and Karina chimed in, “It’s no big deal. I won’t overthink. I just heard her ringtone and figured she was there. She and Stella are good friends, so it’s normal for you guys to have dinner together.”

I’ll be home for dinner,” Neil didn’t keep the conversation going but

be waiting for

Here I was with Neil, and she was so

couldn’t tell what she was really thinking.

place, I knew something was off.

invisible tension. Stella was sitting on the couch, legs crossed, glowering at Ariana.

on the other hand, had red-rimmed eyes and kept glancing at

his face

happened?” Neil asked as he

had accompanied Ariana explained in a

had come out for a drink and saw Ariana using her personal mug. This set Stella off, and she smashed the mug on the floor,

know where he stood amid all this. Was he siding with Stella

Ariana, then he

avoided my gaze when he

let’s get a divorce,” Stella proposed this in front of Neil and I, and

looked incredibly upset

looked shocked and disbelieving. “Divorce? You want to divorce

not just about this, Mitch, you’ve changed,” Stella was

seemed that Mitch, the scumbag, had been siding with

A surge

anger welled up within me. I turned to Ariana and said, “Ariana, you’ve caused enough trouble

of water. I didn’t deliberately choose that mug, I just picked one up. I didn’t think Mr.

floor. On the larger pieces, you could clearly see the pattern. On the table

stuff is important because of the

normal intelligence and vision could

mug from the table and asked Mitch, “This

face was now a

green.