Who's Crying Now, Ex-Husband?

Chapter 401

"How's today's work?"

Mila lifted her veil.

Lounging in the soft chair, the woman was all but swathed in gold silk-her figure bathed in sunlight, shrouded in an aura of sanctity and mystery. No one could make out her features, but Mila saw right through her. It was the same as always: Felicity, all false affection and empty warmth.

If her love was real,

then why was she suffering?

Mila scraped a bit of black and red paint onto her palette, blending them until she'd created a deep, haunting crimson. Dipping her brush, she painted a lifelike black-red rose right onto the woman's golden veil. Suddenly, the entire image- once so pure was tinged with something eerie.

A man's low chuckle broke the silence.

"I knew you'd like those roses," he said, sounding genuinely pleased. "I had the lab working for ages to cultivate the perfect black-red rose, just for you. I thought they'd make the perfect flowers for our wedding-what do you say?"

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A wedding?

He was seriously still going on about that?

Mila was speechless. She wanted to slap him, but... well, she didn't dare. If she woke him from this delusion, she'd be the one to suffer.

Please let him just be talking nonsense-he couldn't possibly be in his right mind. "My darling,"

He took her hand, pressing a gentle kiss onto her knuckles through the golden veil. "You still owe me a wedding. I've been waiting for so long."

Mila gritted her teeth.

Could he stop bringing that up? What did any of this have to do with her, anyway?

Total disaster.

After that, Mila had zero appetite for the rest of the picnic. She trudged back to the old manor, barely touched her dinner, and spent the whole night tossing and turning, unable to sleep.

she kept repeating to herself: Let this just be a passing whim. Please, don't let him actually go

day, her hopes were

blank, arms outstretched as the seamstress took

the verge of

Why was this happening?

for once? She wasn't the one

was going to lose her

she had less say than anyone else. Refusing

got busy. He was hardly ever

been a blessing. But with the wedding looming, Mila could

She was doomed.

to Cossio-this marriage nonsense had to stop. No matter the reason, she could not

ate a decent dinner, then waited in her room until it got late. After rehearsing what she'd say a dozen times, she draped her veil over her face, crossed the hallway,

No answer.

again, and again-still

door instead. Still no response, but this time the door was ajar, just a sliver of darkness inside. He had to be in there, either lost in his

only a moment, Mila pushed the door open, lifting

froze, eyes

was she

In the studio,

draped in white cloths-except now, the cloths had been pulled off,

saw one

her pale skin bound tight with countless red threads. A man's ghostly white hand gripped her slender, entangled neck, pulling her

were more

showing men and women

face was only visible in profile, but

And the woman?

was Felicity's.

rooted

she heard

she stumbled backward

She was genuinely rattled.