After the CEO Divorced Me, He Wants Me Back

The night was dark, and the ocean lay still. Selena glanced at the sleeping Aaron beside her before carefully slipping out of bed and heading to another room. Her ankle still hurt, and she moved cautiously.

With one wrong step, she put too much pressure on it, causing her to wince in pain.

Once she closed the door behind her, she pulled out her phone and sent a message to Aveline.

"Are you still awake, babe?" she typed.

Aveline quickly replied, "I'm up. Isn't it the middle of the night over there? Why aren't you sleeping?"

"I'm exhausted, but I need to tell you something," Selena wrote back.

Aveline immediately called her.

"Hello?" Selena answered quietly, glancing nervously at the door, afraid that Aaron might suddenly appear.

Aveline, picking up on her cautious tone, spoke softly. "What's going on?"

"You don't need to

too. "Oh, right. So, what

and didn't talk to me.

Aveline spoke again. "That was a

how she had talked things over with Maria. "I figured Maria was right. This was something that needed to be dealt with, and I couldn't keep hiding it. If he found

laugh but quickly caught herself, clamping a hand over her mouth as she glanced toward the door again. Feeling safe, she whispered, "I've got everything under control. If I could handle him back when I was pretending to be Snow, I can do

again. "You little

but I didn't want to wake you. Now that I've told you, it

"Now that it's behind you, there's nothing left to worry

will," Selena

yawned after saying, "I'm heading

night,"

Selena let out a

had given her

same position. Despite his usual relaxed demeanor, he slept with a military-like precision, straight and proper.