“Why are you with Cynthia, then? What right do you have to accuse me? How shameless can you get?!” Rosalie yelled.“I just want to be with Cynthia!” Theodore raged. “I told you that clearly before we got married. I was the one who asked for a divorce. You agreed so readily to it. You were clearly in a rush to file for a divorce, so don’t go around acting like the victim here!”Rosalie’s body shook with anger. This man had become utterly unreasonable.“Fine. Are you sick of even putting up a pretense? You’re too much!”Sebastian pulled Rosalie behind him, and yelled at Theodore, “Call yourself a man! How could you bully Rose like this?!”“Am I a man?” Theodore chuckled in a cold, frightening manner. “Sebastian Carter, ask Rose yourself whether I am a man. She knows the answer to that best.”Rosalie clenched her fists, overwhelmed with anger and humiliation. How dare he say something like this to humiliate her in front of others! “You bastard!” In his fury, Sebastian charged fo
Sebastian knew that Rosalie was feeling very emotional right now, and therefore didn’t step forward and add to the chaos. Otherwise, it would only serve to add fuel to the fire. Instead, he simply stood behind her silently.Rosalie turned to look at Sebastian, and grabbed his arm. “Sebastian, let’s go.”She really didn’t want to stay here a minute longer. She had seen through things, and she was feeling exhausted.Rosalie dragged Sebastian away in a bid to leave, but Theodore took a step forward. “Rose,” he called out.“Theodore Spencer!” Rosalie turned around and glared coldly at him, the usual tenderness in her eyes all but gone. “Stay here and continue frolicking around with Cynthia if you wish. From now on, we’ll only be husband and wife in name. I won’t interfere in your business, so please don’t interfere in mine either.”She was completely disappointed with him.Rosalie left with Sebastian, while Theodore felt as though there were two huge rocks tied to his feet that sto
Theodore looked silently at the woman on the floor. The darkness in his eyes faded as tears slid down her cheeks, and the final vestiges eventually gave way to guilt.Cynthia was right. What wrong did she do? He was the one who told Cynthia that he wanted to marry her, and that he would file a divorce with Rose for her sake. Was he trying to blame Cynthia now for sleeping with him on the same bed? What a joke!Theodore had been filled with rage just moments earlier and wanted to vent it all on Cynthia, but he ended up like a deflated balloon with nothing more to say. Since he fell asleep under the influence of the sleeping pill, he was naturally unable to do anything with Cynthia. However, it was a different issue from other people’s perspective.Cynthia cried so hard her sobs gradually became hoarse, until she eventually went out of breath. She collapsed on the floor, and clutched her chest in pain.“Cynthia!” Theodore sprinted forward, and hauled her up in his arms before p
Rosalie and Sebastian changed out of the uniform, and headed back on the helicopter.Rosalie was still in a daze, as if she had her soul sucked out of her. She didn’t say where she wanted to go, and only realized that Sebastian was taking her to a villa that she had never seen before when the helicopter finally landed.“Come on down,” Sebastian said as he carefully helped Rosalie down the helicopter, afraid that she might fall.Rosalie looked around her. “Where are we?”“I saw how miserable you looked. Since you didn’t say anything, I decided to bring you to my place. Don’t worry, only my servants and I are around. There’s no one else.”“Sebastian, I’m really sorry for causing you so much trouble.”Rosalie felt soulless throughout the entire journey, her mind a complete blank.“It’s not trouble at all. Let’s head in and get some rest first. Once we feel up to it, I’ll send you home.”Rosalie went into a daze again as her eyes went out of focus. She didn’t even respond to him. S
“It’s fine, it’s just a shirt.” Sebastian smiled. He winced in pain as he accidentally pulled the wound at the corner of his lips.Rosalie thought that his face looked a little swollen. “Do you need to go to the hospital to get your injuries checked?” “It’s all right. Just some superficial wounds. I’ll be fine in a few days.”“No way! You have to at least apply some ointment. You can’t just leave it be. Do you have a first-aid kit at home? I’ll help you treat your wounds.”Sebastian was about to reject her, but allowing her some distraction from her bad mood seemed like a good idea. With that, he nodded and asked his servant to fetch the first-aid kit.Rosalie opened the first-aid kit, and began treating Sebastian’s wounds. She went about the task very carefully, for fear of hurting him.They sat in close proximity to each other, their breaths mingling. Rosalie was purely trying to treat his wounds, but Sebastian kept his gaze locked on her.Rosalie fixed her eyes on the woun
“I loved the wrong man.”Rosalie stared at the resident register in a daze, before pulling her phone out from her pocket to check the time. She then realized that her phone was out of battery, and had switched off automatically.Sebastian saw the blacked-out screen on her phone, and immediately offered, “I have a charger. You can use it.”Rosalie nodded. “Thanks.”Sebastian hooked her phone up to his charger, and put it aside to allow it to charge.“What time is it now?” Rosalie asked.Sebastian glanced at the clock, and said, “One in the afternoon. What’s the matter? Do you have something to do?”“I was too rash at the resort, and said that I wouldn’t file for a divorce to make things difficult for them. I’m regretting it right now. I’d rather quickly go through the divorce, lest I have to bear the sight of him again.”Anger had gotten the better of her just now, and she had said things out of spite. She just didn’t want to let them off so easily, and this seemed to be the bes
Howeber, Theodore never appeared.Rosalie called Theodore, who said that he was on his way and would reach soon. But half an hour passed, then an hour, and he still hadn’t arrived. It was way past the one hour they agreed on earlier.There were many people queuing up ahead of her. If he didn’t rush here in time, the staff members of the office may end up knocking off.When it was about four in the evening, Theodore was still nowhere to be found. Rosalie was furious about Theodore’s lack of proactivity even in filing for a divorce—which he asked for.She was about to call Theodore when she received another call, which looked to be from the police station.She answered the call with doubts in her heart. “Hello.”“What did you say? How did it happen?!” she exclaimed in shock.“Okay, I got it.”She hung up.“What happened?” Sebastian asked.Rosalie’s head started throbbing.“Theodore was caught for drunk driving, and he’s at the police station right now. I need to bail him out
“No,” Rebecca said in a tone that suddenly turned solemn. “I want to see the resident register in one hour’s time. Otherwise, I’ll go find you in person and see if you’ve replaced your ID card.”The chill in Rebecca’s voice told Rosalie that Rebecca must already be suspicious of her. She had to give back the resident register, by hook or by crook.“All right, Grandma. I got it. I’ll have someone give back the register right now.”“Good. Watch the time, otherwise I might suspect that you took the register to do something fishy.” With that, Rebecca hung up.Rosalie could sense the heavy suspicion in Rebecca’s voice. For all she knew, Rebecca might already be onto something, but was giving her a last chance by not exposing her there and then.She really couldn’t imagine how Rebecca would react if the latter found out the truth.“Theodore Spencer, are you happy about this right now? We can’t file for a divorce tomorrow afternoon. Grandma wants the register back in one hour’s time.”