Who's Crying Now, Ex-Husband?

Chapter 308

The girl instinctively recoiled, only to bump into the broad chest of a man behind her-Leonard.

She tried to dart away, but there was nowhere left to escape. In that moment, Lysander leaned in, capturing her lips in a kiss that was fierce and unyielding, as sudden and overwhelming as a summer storm.

Pressed between two men behind her, a stranger's steady heartbeat thrummed through her back, while in front of her, her so-called boyfriend loomed, his touch possessive, his gaze burning with a nameless fury. Mila's mind snapped; the tension inside her finally broke.

All she could feel was humiliation.

She shoved at Lysander, her hand sweeping up in a slap fueled by all her anger- only for it to halt midair, caught tight in Leonard's grip. He didn't need to use much force; she simply couldn't move. Before she could even raise her other hand, Leonard pinned that one too.

She was trapped, boxed in by the strength of the young man behind her.

Lysander let out a low, mocking laugh. "I told you-he's just a dog. He listens only to his master."

And like any loyal hound, he'd bare his teeth at anything that threatened his master-no matter who it was.

Pity? Sympathy? What a joke.

No one cared.

on hers. When his fingers slipped

clear as glass, now seemed clouded, dulled by despair

felt like she was losing her

hair disheveled, lifted his head just a little. His fox-like eyes

you

it that every time I see you, I end up like this? Mila

Lysander's hold. With

you," he murmured. "Next time, don't pick a fight with me over things that have nothing to do with us. I'll get angry. But this time I'll

examined her wrist-already bruising, trembling faintly in his hand. He glanced

have to say a word. Leonard calmly twisted his own wrist until

as if he felt

Lysander gave a gentle, almost coaxing smile.

face in his chest, too stunned to move, too scared to speak. She could only feel the tightness in her chest, the suffocating pressure that

she'd signed a

a blazing summer, but she

her so carelessly. In his eyes, she was probably worth

someone he'd raised, what would he