Who's Crying Now, Ex-Husband?

Chapter 557

This wasn't the way Forrest had planned for everything to come out, and even he, usually so direct, couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed as he caught Mila's wide-eyed look of astonishment. His gaze flickered away, uncharacteristically evasive.

"Technically it's just an engagement," he began, shrugging awkwardly. "And you said yourself, Jade's in charge of the whole wedding. Let me handle this one- let's go with my plan for the engagement party, all right?"

"Fine, fine," Mila replied, her tone light. What else could she say? He'd made things incredibly easy for her-she barely had to lift a finger.

Once the basics were settled, however, they hit a snag: the guest list.

Mila started first.

Her closest friend, Miranda Wayne, was still overseas and couldn't make it. On Jade's end, there was no way she'd allow her adoptive mother to travel such a long distance given her health, not even for an engagement.

As for the Sutherlands-those relatives had been cut off years ago. No way she was inviting any of them.

there was Felicity Fontaine. For a long time, this woman had all but taken the place of her own mother in Mila's heart, and Mila desperately wished she could be present for such an important moment. But the whole point of this engagement was to publicly separate

Mila realized with a strange emptiness that, aside from

didn't fare much

coming," he stated bluntly. "They'd only make a mess of things and ruin the evening." The Whitmore relatives

abroad, most of his circle was still overseas. Some of his closest friends and colleagues- especially the mentor he

sat in silence, staring at

Mila finally said, breaking the tension. She squeezed Forrest's hand and smiled, reassuring him. "It's

her, burying his face in the curve of her neck, and responded with a muffled, resigned,

engagement mattered to

he was more than just a boyfriend, easy to walk away from at a whim. He wanted to be her fiancé, recognized and acknowledged, with

it

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