When There Is Nothing Left But Love (Ashton And Scarlett)

Chapter 1269

To this day, I could still remember Emery’s words to me, “If I ever meet such a person, I’ll make sure they never have another day of peace in their life!”

Perhaps she already had her suspicions then that her marriage wouldn’t last long.

When she saw that I was quiet, Emery decided to change the subject. “By the way, I got someone to check out that Mr. Cress you were talking about. He seems all right. He’s from K City and has been teaching at Summer’s school for four years now. Kids love him because he’s young and good-looking.”

“Oh, thank you.” I nodded, my face devoid of expressions.

Emery suddenly stopped stirring her coffee and dropped the spoon. “Hey, don’t be like this. You’re divorced too, and now that I’m in the same boat as you, you should be happy for me. From now on, we’ll have each other for support. Men can all go to hell.”

Now that she had brought up my divorce, I knew I couldn’t keep the truth from her anymore. I had to come clean to her, and it was now or never.

After hearing the truth, Emery was surprisingly quiet. All she did was stare at me oddly.

“Why are you looking at me like that?” I finally asked as her stare was starting to make me uncomfortable.

replied. She didn’t seem all too surprised by this news as she looked away

relaxed she seemed, the more anxious I got.

and held my gaze. “I’ve noticed the way you look at each other. Even if the divorce was real, I figured you’d get back

your eyes are

oh, no, it’s just your bad

acting skills?

hot cocoa, I decided to tell her everything I knew about Delilah. “Emery, actually Emma and I had seen Hunter going shopping with Delilah. But we were afraid you might not take it too well, so we kept it from

she glanced at me. “No wonder

bad Emma is at keeping secrets, so she

a wave of her hand. “Tell her it’s all over now. She doesn’t

blame us?” I asked warily. Even though I knew her well,

“The two of you could have told me the truth earlier and saved yourself all this trouble. I had known about

she had found out about it even before the ribbon-cutting ceremony

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