The Untouchable Ex Wife by Mizuki Sei

Chapter 272

His arrival left everybody stunned.

Cecilia's mother was the first to react. Seeing that her son-in-law Christopher really was going to slip through their fingers, she quickly latched onto Stefan instead.

"So you've come, Stefan! Cecy here has been talking about you just now. There's been a misunderstanding between you two. I think it's high time you clear it all up!"

"The truth is," she continued, "Cecy was inexperienced and very naive emotionally through those years. That's why she..."

"Mom!" Cecilia interrupted her, feeling humiliated. "Didn't I tell you to stop talking about that?"

Both of these men once loved her deeply, but right now, neither of them wanted her. This came as, without a doubt, a huge blow to a woman like her. If her mother kept on fawning over these men, trying to please them so they'd take her back, she would soon be left without a shred of dignity!

Christopher, on the other hand, seemed unperturbed. He even casually patted Stefan's shoulder and half-joked, "I'll leave everything here to you now. I trust that you'll handle everything well."

His calm and nonchalant attitude made Stefan seem like the groom who had wrongfully left his bride at the altar, not him.

and asked Cecilia, "Would it be convenient

almost flirtily. "How could it be inconvenient when it comes to

into the private ward. Once they were both

noticed that Cecilia was trying to get nearer to

the sea and almost drowned," he said. "I think you'd better lie down

awkward for Cecilia, but she then quietly stepped away from him and returned to her bed. Yet when she looked into Stefan's eyes, she saw that they were

and heartless as you look!" she observed. "I still mean something to you, and you still care about

deny anything.' You're still the woman I used to love very much, and you're one of my few confidantes. I'm not a robot made of steel and iron, so of course, you mean a lot to me, and I definitely do care about

she was. "I'd rather

that much more excruciating when she realized that she had lost the love he used

again!' Stefan thought,

level­headed, independent, and optimistic, would become so difficult, a person whose mind was filled with nothing

coldly. "Let's just let go of the past and move on. The more you bring it up,

us. We might end up not even able to

no chance for us?" Cecilia asked, unable to take it anymore. With tears in her eyes and having lost most of her self­control, she began to