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 for you if we

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

into the private ward. Once they were both inside, Stefan closed

initially standing very close to each other, but when Stefan noticed that Cecilia was trying to get nearer to him, he took a huge step back away from

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

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

observed. "I still

love very much, and you're one of my few confidantes.

such a painful expression on her face that it was obvious how heartbroken she was. "I'd rather you never loved me at all. That way, I'd

blissful and perfect that it made it that much more excruciating when she realized that she had lost the love he

this again!' Stefan thought, helplessly massaging his

had no idea when the Cecilia Smith he knew, who used to be so level­headed, independent, and optimistic, would become so difficult, a person whose mind was

not talk about this anymore," he replied coldly. "Let's just let go of the past and move

between us. We might end up not even able to be friends with each

self­control, she began to raise her voice. "Even if