Who's Crying Now, Ex-Husband?

Chapter 558

Bang!

"What the hell is this supposed to mean?!"

The hospital room reverberated with the crash-a folding chair toppled over, and a crumpled red invitation was hurled to the floor by Sophia Pembroke, landing with a dramatic roll at the feet of a man in gleaming oxblood shoes as he walked in.

Nathaniel bent down and picked it up.

His expression was unreadable as he smoothed the invitation open.

Peonies bloomed across the paper, and at the top in neat script it read, 'To Mr. Nathaniel.' It was addressed to him. The date was absurdly soon. Below, the venue. And at the bottom, the signatures of the two people hosting the engagement.

Mila and Forrest.

Daphne Hall.

One day. That's all it took for everything to turn upside down.

Now, silence pressed in, heavy and absolute.

But Sophia was never one for silence. She kicked the fallen chair, pointed furiously at the only other person in the room-Nathaniel-and launched into a tirade. "You useless waste of space! I gave you a chance, and you blew it! Yesterday, I told you to talk to her about that ridiculous teacher business-couldn't you see the opportunity? You couldn't even set up a single date! And now she's suddenly engaged? What are you good for, huh? And what, she only sent you an invitation? Am I, Sophia Pembroke, supposed to not exist? Does she not know who runs the Pembroke family?"

She was practically shaking with rage.

After deciding she was done playing games with Lysander, Sophia had made up her mind-she'd bring Mila into the family, under the guise of marriage. She still had an unmarried brother, and since he actually liked Mila, why not?

to talk about some teacher

what came

a lousy dinner,

And now-this engagement invitation.

with her? Deliberately

it. His face didn't change; he barely seemed to register any emotion at all. His gaze stayed fixed on the

Sophia's shouting finally lost steam did he speak, his voice soft. "Sis. Maybe this is for the

said quietly, "I told you before. Mila doesn't like me. She never will. And honestly, I don't want her to. I like things just the way

to say?" Sophia's tone

the sickening sounds that used to come from the next room at night. The parade of strange women's faces

"Sophia," he said.

were the one who talked about marriage. You said you loved Theodore Chase, no matter

He turned his head,

looking out the

thought maybe our family was still capable of loving someone for real. That's why, when everyone else was against

soulmates-what did it get

The other

Love? What a joke.

a chance

the first time. For a moment, she was silent. Then

her hand, palm flat, moving it up and down to show a scale. "Her moral code is way above ours. Even if she's disappointed in a marriage, she'd follow the rules—she'd never

gave a faint, humorless

He knew all too

But...