Chapter 19

Leah's POV

Stood on the balcony, I leaned forward to the handrail, looking at the crowd in the yard.

I saw Darren, who was accompanied by an attractive young woman in an elegant satin dress, sipping champagne while talking to Alpha Kyle, the Chairman of the Derby Committee.

I didn't blame him for not bringing me that glass of champagne after witnessing what happened just now.

He was still young. He didn't need to be involved in a divorced woman's family farce. I understood. Plus, the woman leaning against him looked much younger and happier than me. She looked like the younger version of me, when my heart hadn't been broken by my ex-mate.

When I was still unrejected.

I stretched out my arm to fetch the wine glass behind me, but the glass turned out to be empty.

I lifted up my head and sighed, staring out into the night sky.

The stars twinkled above me, but my mind was clouded with a deep sense of melancholy.

I couldn't shake off the fact that I had just come face to face with my ex-hu