Who's Crying Now, Ex-Husband?

Chapter 283

Chapter 275

The man's burning kiss landed on her pale wrist.

Mila's hand jerked in shock-anger flaring so hot it reddened the corners of her cat-like eyes. She stomped hard on his foot, and while the pain distracted him, she wrenched herself free and stumbled two paces away, putting a good six feet between them.

"Come any closer and I'll scream for security!" Her voice was sharp and trembling.

Lysander winced, but a twisted smile still played on his lips. "Relax, darling. All I'm saying is—if you just do as you're told and come back to be Mrs. Montgomery, I can give you anything you want."

The implication in his tone was unmistakable.

Mila understood all too well-and it was so absurd she almost laughed. The heat

in her chest drained, replaced by a heavy, exhausted numbness.

What am I even doing? she wondered.

Trying to reason with Lysander was pointless. He never listened. He never intended to sign the papers.

Drawing a slow breath, Mila took a step back. She slipped the jade bracelet from her wrist, turning it in her palm for a moment, then asked quietly, "Lysander, when Hugo Sutherland and Charlotte came out of nowhere demanding a million-dollar dowry from me... That was your idea, wasn't it?”

Lysander's expression flickered-cold and hard. "I warned you about this."

really was

as much, but the confirmation still left

you even know? That

met her gaze, his face unreadable. "No, you wouldn't

that was the

hold it

went cold. Without another word, she raised

shattered with a

across the

the eye, her voice

that bracelet-anything of yours-I don't want

I have to say it before

nothing from you. Nothing

negotiation broke down in an

the hallway, both sides' bodyguards

were on the first floor. Amid the chaos, Mila managed to slip away her shawl lost, not bothering to retrieve it-ducking through a

out of the building and into the car, but

she whispered, voice

looked up to see Julian's round face,

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