Who's Crying Now, Ex-Husband?

Chapter 285

Thunder rumbled overhead, lightning splitting the sky.

Inside the dimly lit room, a heavy silence hung between two figures. On the floor between them, a toppled toy robot lay motionless, its little red hat askew.

Mila stood frozen, tears brimming in her eyes.

She couldn't put her feelings into words-she even wondered if she was hearing things. But she knew Lysander's voice too well, the way he sounded as a young

man.

There was no mistaking it.

Her mind whirled with confusion, unable to process what had just happened.

Seven years of marriage-absurd from the start, absurd through the years, and now, as if fate needed a punchline, utterly insane.

If his "I don't love you" for all those years had been a lie, what did any of it mean? What was real-what had ever been real?

Silent tears slipped down her cheeks as her heart quietly crumbled.

"Mila..."

Lysander's usually sharp gaze flickered with rare panic. He whispered her name, reaching for her, but Mila instinctively took a step back.

In that moment, a thousand thoughts raced through her head, and yet, somehow, none at all.

turned on instinct

out of this unbearable moment. She needed a place to breathe, somewhere small and safe where she could lock the world away

for

pounding behind her. On the way, she shoved a clothing rack aside, sending

burst out of

clouds. Rain came down in sheets, but Mila didn't

...

time Lysander made it outside, the

rain lashing the ground, wind howling through the trees and bending them nearly double. There was no sign

Mila was gone.

rain for a stunned moment, then

everyone over here. Now. Surround

go this way, he never

away-locked her up if

Forever.

ordered him to take a group and search

Forrest's place.

the door and

the house!"

Lysander fixed him with an icy

shook his

care whether he answered or not. He'd brought plenty of backup -Forrest's own staff

was