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

and nodded almost flirtily. "How

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

each other, but when Stefan noticed that Cecilia was trying to

the sea and almost drowned," he said. "I think

stepped away from him and returned to her bed. Yet when she looked into Stefan's eyes, she saw that they were gentle and filled with

"I still mean something to you, and you still

I do," Stefan replied honestly, not trying to 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

obvious how heartbroken she was. "I'd rather you never loved me at all. That way, I'd never have to endure this agonizing pain of losing

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

again!' Stefan thought, helplessly massaging his

used to be so level­headed, independent, and optimistic, would become so

the past and move on. The more you bring it up, the more you'll

might end up not

it anymore. With tears in her eyes and having lost most of her self­control, she began to raise her voice. "Even if both you and I are not married, even if we're both single right now, there's no chance we'd