Who's Crying Now, Ex-Husband?

Chapter 482

"What's wrong?"

Mila, lost in her thoughts, noticed Felicity had fallen silent for a while. She quickly looked up and asked her.

"Oh, it's nothing."

Felicity pointed behind Mila, grinning. "I just saw the most gorgeous guy over there... but wait, where did he go?"

A gorgeous guy?

Mila immediately thought of someone, spun around to look, but all she saw were the restaurant's other patrons milling about. No handsome stranger in sight.

"He's gone already," Felicity sighed, sounding genuinely disappointed. "I wanted you to see him. He really was something."

"What was so nice to look at?"

Conrad appeared, balancing a tray piled with crispy fried chicken and glasses of ice-cold cola—both things Felicity had argued fiercely for, nearly losing her temper to get her way. He caught their conversation and chimed in.

"Hmph, not telling you," Felicity huffed, digging into her food. She wasn't about to let Conrad share in her little bubble of happiness—not when he policed even her choice of snacks.

Conrad turned to Mila for answers instead.

But Mila just sat there, looking oddly distracted. She seemed miles away, lost in thought, and didn't even respond after Conrad called her name a couple of times.

Outside, Eugene slipped through the small side door of the restaurant. He leaned against the wall, tugging his cap low to shade his face. After a moment, he pushed the brim back up, his expression now carefully blank.

His emotions were a tangled mess.

Thoughts crashed over him in waves, too fast and too many to sort out. He needed somewhere quiet to clear his head, somewhere to think.

He was just about to leave the amusement park when he noticed, not far off, an employee in an oversized mascot suit a giant brown bear-handing out helium balloons to a crowd of excited kids.

hesitated, then changed direction

Back inside the restaurant,

her friends decided to head out again-Felicity, never one to stay cooped up

visibly more relaxed, and

two of them had just gotten off the log flume ride, hair slightly damp and spirits high. Felicity, still riding a wave of excitement, made a beeline for the next attraction-only to bump straight into a wall of soft brown fur. She looked

apologetic,

last helium

me?" Felicity started, but before she could reach for the string, Conrad-who had caught up-pulled her protectively behind him, eyeing the bear with

shook his huge

Ignoring his sour look, she

hurried forward

card reader or payment app on the mascot, so she asked, and the bear silently pulled out a phone and held it toward her. Mila froze, surprised, something

Felicity

small sigh and turned to Felicity. "Um, he says he doesn't want money. He thinks you're... really cute. And, uh, he'd like to take a photo with

"Sure!" Felicity answered, delighted.

at the same time, but his protest

be taken on their own phone-ke absolutely

offered to

in awkward, heavy steps, standing beside Felicity-who was clutching her balloon and grinning from ear to ear. He tilted his big furry head toward her, and in that moment, the camera

gave the big bear a hug and

...

away,

far enough off, tucked into a narrow alley, the bear pulled off the oversized head, revealing

His eyes were red.

the heavy costume, fished out his phone, and opened his sister's chat window. There it was:

with her arms around the

photo with

only time she'd