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

nodded almost flirtily. "How could

Once they were

when Stefan noticed that Cecilia was trying to get nearer to him, he took a huge step back away

drowned," he said. "I

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 gentle and filled

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

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,

she was. "I'd rather you never loved me at all. That way, I'd never have to endure

that it made it that much more excruciating when she realized that she had lost the love he used to feel for

thought,

who used to be so level­headed, independent, and optimistic, would become so difficult, a person whose

go of the past and move on. The more

end up not even

most of her self­control,