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.

changed direction and

Back inside the restaurant,

for a bit, Mila and her friends decided to

in Mila. She was visibly more relaxed,

beeline for the next attraction-only to

instantly apologetic, assuming she'd

bear said nothing, just held out the last helium balloon in his paw,

Felicity started, but before she could reach for the string, Conrad-who had caught up-pulled her protectively behind him, eyeing the bear with suspicion. "Sorry, we're not buying anything,"

huge head, the plush headpiece

Ignoring his sour look, she

hurried forward to

and the bear silently pulled out a phone and held it toward her. Mila froze, surprised, something flickering in her eyes

pointed at Felicity and

sigh and turned to Felicity. "Um, he says he doesn't want money. He thinks you're...

"Sure!" Felicity answered, delighted.

way!" Conrad's voice rang out at the same time, but his protest was ignored. He

their own phone-ke absolutely refused

to use her

heavy steps, standing beside Felicity-who was clutching her balloon and grinning from ear to ear. He tilted his big

the big bear a hug and waved. "Bye, Mr. Bear! You're

...

mascot shuffled away,

into a narrow alley, the bear pulled off the oversized head, revealing Eugene's face-damp

His eyes were red.

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

with her arms around

photo with

she'd