Being Pursued By Ex-husband

Samuel gazed at Claudius. "How did you know that you and Sophia got divorced?"

"I remembered that we had gone to the City Hall to get our divorce certificate," Claudius replied.

Samuel took a sip of his red wine, feeling that Alexander's question was really putting him in a difficult position.

"So... At that time, you didn't like Sophia, and when she suggested a divorce, you went along with it," Samuel said, trying to clarify.

"If I didn't like Sophia, why did I marry her in the first place?" Claudius asked, throwing another curveball.

Samuel felt that Alexander had invited him over tonight to play the role of the bad guy. Bringing up these old, complicated issues made him feel as though he was betraying Sophia.

After all, if Sophia didn't even mention any of this to Alexander, she probably didn't want to bring it up.

It's all in the past, so why bring it up now?

Although Samuel was sometimes slow to react, it didn't mean he was stupid.

When Samuel didn't say anything, Claudius asked, "Was there a misunderstanding?"

"Not exactly," Samuel replied. He looked at Claudius with mixed emotions. "Have you ever considered whether or not Sophia wants you to know about these things?"

Claudius furrowed his brows slightly. "Before Sophia left tonight, I asked her a question."

"What did you ask her?"

What does this have to do with the current issue?

"I asked her if she would still be with me if I never remembered the things from the past."

Samuel raised an eyebrow. "What was her answer?"

"She said, 'After all, you're still Alexander.'"

Samuel was taken aback. He had just been hit with a dose of cheesy public display of affection.

"So why didn't you just ask her about the past directly?"

"I didn't want to upset her."

Samuel was speechless. "I thought you have amnesia, but the way you treat Sophia doesn't seem like it at all!"

Claudius glared at Samuel. "Will my amnesia affect my feelings for Sophia?"

I shouldn't have come here in the first place!

Samuel wiped his face, not wanting to continue the topic. He decided to answer Claudius' question instead. "You married Sophia because she saved your mom—oh, your stepmom, Kristen, whom you don't remember anyway, so let's not worry about her. You said you would give Sophia money, and she originally asked for five million, then ten million, and finally three hundred million. In the end, she asked to marry you.

"Your relationship with Kristen wasn't good at that time, and she was always trying to get you to marry someone from a family that matched yours better, so you just married Sophia. By the way, I forgot to tell you that Sophia kept a really low profile at that time. I mean, even though she was very rich, no one knew. So when she married you, everyone in Jadeborough, including you and me, thought she married up and was trying to rise up in the Xenos family.

"You told me that Sophia was too scheming and had a big plan. After you got married, you let Sophia live in the Xenos residence while you stayed at the condominium. Kristen and your conniving younger sister were both schemers. They caused trouble for Sophia during those three years. Later, Sophia probably felt disillusioned and asked for a divorce."

Claudius looked at his wine glass, lost in thought. "Was I good to Sophia during those three years?"

Samuel glanced at him. "If you were good to Sophia, do you think she would divorce you?"

Claudius frowned. "What about you?"

One couldn't deny that Alexander had a knack for direct questioning, which was true in the past and remained so in the present.

Samuel rubbed his nose irritably. "You weren't good to her, so do you think I could be better to her than you? Speaking of that, it was you who denied your feelings for Sophia and caused the divorce. Then you shamelessly went to her and asked her back afterward, and even I couldn't look at you with a straight face."

Lowering his head and keeping silent, Claudius was lost in thought.

Since he last saw Sophia in Lightspring, he had sporadically remembered some things.

However, those memories were all fragments, like him and Sophia getting divorced, Sophia slapping him, or Sophia being with another man.

Those things were all disjointed, and he couldn't put together what had happened.

As Samuel was speaking, he remembered the slip of the tongue he had made at the auction before, so he became a bit uneasy and dared not say too much. He lowered his head and drank his sorrows away in silence.

Claudius pieced together what he had remembered and what Samuel had told him. Now, he had a rough outline of what had happened between him and Sophia.

"What about Kristen? Where is she now?"

Samuel had never liked Kristen. If it weren't for Kristen, people wouldn't have said so much about Alexander behind his back when he was a child.

Now that he knew Kristen wasn't Alexander's biological mother at all, he naturally didn't want to know anything more about her.

However, Kristen was still Alexander's mother on paper, and she had been Mrs. Xenos for over ten years. Although she was kicked out of the family, people still liked to gossip about her.

Samuel didn't need to pay attention. He had heard enough about it.

"She seems to be in prison."

"In prison?"

Samuel nodded. "Besides having a younger sister who is not related to you by blood, you also have a younger brother who is the same and a real troublemaker. He was spoiled by Kristen and has done a lot of stupid things. Before your accident, Leonard was sued by many people. Kristen worked with your cunning and sly uncle, Dillon, to get her son out.

"But Dillon couldn't compete with you and Sophia and was also sent to prison. Recently, I heard that he has terminal lung cancer and is applying for medical parole. After his family fell apart, Kristen had a fallout with him. Leonard was sentenced to more than ten years, and Kristen wanted to reduce his sentence. She somehow hooked up with a prison guard, but he denied it afterward and wouldn't help her. Kristen got angry and ended up stabbing him with a knife. Later, she was arrested and is supposed to go to court this month. She'll probably get sentenced to three to five years in prison."