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.

time and asked Cecilia, "Would it be convenient for you if we spoke in

her lips and nodded almost flirtily. "How could it be inconvenient when it

Once they were

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

he said. "I think

for Cecilia, but she then quietly stepped away from him and returned to her bed.

she observed. "I

of my few confidantes. I'm not a robot made of steel and iron,

her face that it was 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

made it that much more excruciating when she

thought, helplessly

no idea when the Cecilia Smith he knew, who used to be so level­headed, independent, and

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

not even

you're saying there really is 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