Ex-Husbands, I'm Back のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 31 - チャプター 40

Dante stood inside the closing elevator, watching the lady with the luggage who was just about to get in earlier. He wore a slightly offended expression after she waved at him without looking, indicating that he could go on without her. Her back was now turned against him, with a phone placed against her ears."What is she feeling like?"He thought with a pained, pissed-off face.He had just returned from work and had decided to spend the night at this secretly rented apartment as usual. An apartment none of his family members knew he owned. He had decided to secure it after the disturbances from his grandmother regarding the good old marriage topic. And her disturbances were beginning to get out of hand. Grandmother had even, at one point in the past, sent one of her friend's granddaughters to his house. That was the deal-breaker for him; he had decided to secure some private haven unknown to all of them in the meantime to keep his sanity.Now here he was, after a really long day.

Lyra tossed and turned from one side to the next in the bedroom before she finally opened her eyes slowly to come awake. She yawned and stretched out, sitting up lazily on the bed, only to notice Aria's figure standing with her back turned.The air was charged with an enticing, spicy aroma coming from the kitchen. Lyra sniffed the air from her relaxed posture; even the pillows and bed sheets had been laced with the scent.Aria was actually serving breakfast on the side table."Morning dear." Lyra was greeted with a tired face.Aria turned swiftly to glance at Lyra. She let out a smile and then went, making her previous busy hand movements and glancing at the wall repeatedly."Hey babes, how was your night?" She asked, but before Lyra could respond, she went ahead to mutter to herself."I need to start heading to the office now; I think I'm running late already." "So what are your thoughts about my offer last night?" Lyra blurted from the bed. Aria mentioning her job had instantly r

Dante sat on his office chair in a half-bowed posture, running his hand through a bunch of documents on his desk. Marcus was sitting with a straight face at the opposite end of the desk, and standing next to his chair was Mandy, Dante's secretary, who handed him the documents he was perusing. After a few minutes of looking through the file in silence, Dante paused to look up quickly at his secretary. "You can leave for now, Mandy; I will call you when I'm done." He said, swinging his head towards the door. She curtsied and turned around swiftly to exit the office, shutting the door gently after her. Dante was about to return his gaze to the files on his desk when Marcus suddenly shifted forward like someone who had just remembered something significant. "Sir, I almost forgot to tell you. HUB also reached out to us not too long ago. They want us to handle their project even without submitting a contract. Can you believe that?" Dante nodded his head with a knowing look on his

When Lyra arrived at her apartment building, she refreshed and made herself a simple dinner of smash burgers.She took the meal to the sitting room, sitting carelessly on one of the couches to eat the meal halfway before going ahead to check the updates in her mailbox with one hand. The first thing she saw while scrolling through the box was a new message from the apartment owner."Young lady, I think it would help you if you vacate the apartment building as instructed or get ready to face some really bad legal consequences." He wrote.Lyra scoffed and scrolled a little downwards to see some highlighted hints beneath the message where he stated that the noise pollution coming from her apartment was the reason for her eviction."For real?"Lyra murmured with little food still in her mouth, chewing at the same time and looking unconcerned.Then, without thinking twice, Lyra pushed her plate aside and readjusted on the couch before proceeding to browse through the online stores available

After the call with Chase, Dante had been so overwhelmed with delight that he could no longer continue with the office work. He immediately picked up his phone, his briefcase, and his car keys as he turned to march out of the office, heading back to his apartment with a brightened-up face and a radiant smile.All through the duration of his drive back home, the smile on his face did not fade. He kept whistling, swinging his head from side to side heatedly, and thinking of how pleasant and freeing it would be to finally get to see Lyra again.When he arrived at the parking lot of his apartment building, he turned off the ignition of the Bentley, climbed down steadily, and strode towards the entrance with exultant steps.When he reached the elevator opening and was just about to touch one of the controller buttons by the side, his phone vibrated in his pocket. He paused to pull it out, only to see that it was an incoming call from his grandmother. He shook his head indulgingly before pi