The CEO's Amazing Ex-Wife Is Back! by H. Dally

Chapter 104

The incessant ringing of his penthouse doorbell jolted Kris out of his sleep. He’d ignored it for a while, hoping it would stop, but the ringing only got worse until he couldn’t ignore it anymore.

“This building better fucking be on fire,” he cursed under his breath as he shot out of bed and made his way out of the bedroom, down the stairs, and to the door.

His annoyance grew when he yanked the door open and saw that it was Alden.

“Wow, I still can’t believe you moved out of your house.”

Kris gritted his teeth. “And you woke me up this early in the morning just to tell me that?”

“Early?” Alden scoffed and pulled out his phone, turning the screen toward Kris.

Kris mellowed a bit when he saw that it was already 8 in the morning. He’d spent the night tossing in bed and must’ve only drifted to sleep around 4 a.m. As such, he felt exhausted.

“Come in,” he said with a sigh as he stepped aside.

“Who said I was asking for your permission?” Alden rolled his eyes as he walked inside, causing Kris to glare at him.

“Wow, this place is…bare,” Alden commented, looking around the apartment.

“Why are you here, Alden?” Kris asked, still feeling a little irritable.

“I came here to be the best friend I am by helping you decorate your new penthouse since you have such shitty taste in décor. I’m here to make this place feel like a home.

Kris’s expression instantly soured as he bitterly said, “No place can ever feel like home again.”

Alden’s eyebrows knit together, and he glanced around the bare apartment with a shake of his head. “But still, the Miller mansion is where you’ve lived all your life,”

Kris smiled wryly. Alden was right. He’d stayed in the Miller mansion all his life, but ironically, that place had stopped feeling like home the moment he kicked Thalassa cut of it.

“Honestly, in my opinion, you shouldn’t have left because of Karen.”

don’t understand, Alden. And I don’t expect you to. You don’t know how much I detest Karen with everything in me. She killed my child and made me lose the only woman I’ve ever loved. I don’t

he took a seat on one of the couches in the living room. “But what about your daughter?”

a way to get her away from Karen without making her suffer,” Kris said determinedly. “I can’t afford for her to grow up around

could see that bringing up that subject hadn’t been the best since it had soured Kris’s mood

ever told you that you’re a really terrible host‘ he joked. “I’ve come to visit you at your penthouse, but you haven’t even offered me a glass

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Alden flipped him the middle finger.

freshen up,” Kris informed him, heading

because your breath smells like shit. I thought I was going

couldn’t help the small smile that tipped one corner of his lips. Just as he was about

“Fuck.”

turned back with a frown to find Alden looking at something on

phone back down. “Uh, nothing.”

suspicious, realizing that there was something Alden didn’t want him

were you looking at? Show me.”

a sigh. “Fuck it. You’re going to see it

Kris’s jaw clenched tightly the moment

breath. “How dare

but people who are dating do stand close to each other, as well as other things,” Alden pointed out but shut his mouth when

in the heart as he looked back at the picture, seeing how close

in Kris’s arms and forearms were popping out from how agitated he seemed.

finished his sentence when Kris hurled the phone against the wall with

the fuck? I told you not to throw it,” Alden complained as he went to pick up his phone from the ground. It had been smashed so hard against the wall that there were several cracks and black

you’re definitely buying me a new one,” Alden said in

annoyance.

a new phone was the last thing on Kris’s mind. He was