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 and

she had to get out-out of this suffocating house, out of this unbearable moment. She needed a place to breathe, somewhere small and safe where she

alone for

registering the hurried footsteps pounding behind her. On the way, she shoved a clothing rack aside, sending a pile of laundry toppling to block the path and

out

of storm clouds. Rain came down in sheets, but Mila didn't hesitate—she plunged into the downpour, letting it swallow

...

Lysander made it outside,

through the trees and bending them nearly double. There was no

Mila was gone.

stood in the rain for a stunned moment, then

over here. Now.

go this way, he

her up if he

Forever.

with a team. Lysander ordered him to take a group and search the perimeter, while he headed straight to the house

Forrest's place.

door and stormed inside

the house!"

frowning slightly. Lysander fixed him with an icy glare. "Where's

only shook his head,

He'd brought plenty of backup -Forrest's own staff were no match

was swift