Sweet Divorce

Chapter 201 You’ve Got Some Nerve Hitting My Girl

Morning the next day.

As the sky lightened, Rita woke to the clamor of her alarm.

She’d cried too fiercely last night. Her eyes were swollen. She shot a look at her phone, switched off the alarm, and checked her missed calls.

No missed calls.

Liam hadn’t called again or texted her.

Seems like he’d lost patience in her.

Good.

That was good.

Blow after blow to his heartstrings – that should be enough to accept it when she said that she never loved him, right?

Enough to let her go, even hate her… without his weak spot, whatever happened to her or the Brown family, he wouldn’t care or be threatened.

Thinking of that, Rita’s heartache stopped.

She clambered up, rinsed herself up, and went downstairs.

Noah and Amelia were having breakfast right now.

Seeing her come down, Amelia looked at her swollen eyes and frowned. “Did you not sleep well last night, Rita?”

Noticing Amelia was staring at her eyes, Amelia rubbed them awkwardly. “I slept well enough… drank too much water yesterday and bloated up.”

Walking out of the kitchen, Zoe just so happened to hear Rita’s excuse.

Zoe frowned. “What do you mean you drank too much water. You were crying too hard because of your stomachache last night, weren’t you?”

“If you’ve got a stomachache, just say so. What’s with the story, kid?” Noah wore a confused expression at the side.

With her lie mercilessly deconstructed by her mother, Rita made a face. “Just didn’t want Dad and Grandma to worry is all.”

Rita’s explanation had Noah even more worried.

feel that – even though they

didn’t know what was going

Zoe swapped the cold dish in front of her with a steaming bowl of millet congee.

bit strict, are we,

enough that I don’t want to see you cry from the pain.” Thinking back to how hard Rita had been crying last night, Zoe felt

was her flesh and blood.

could only watch the others dine on flavorful dishes while she contended herself with bland

earth did she say it was a stomachache back

have gone with

she was reaping the consequences for her lie

congee, with everyone having eaten their fill and returned

them. “What a coincidence. Mason and I haven’t eaten yet. Do

but now Rose was acting like

whole thing, but fixed up the

eyes darting, trying to think of a way to

she saw the emerald jade ring on Rita’s finger and her

family knew that that ring was meant

daughters in this generation, Amelia had always kept it on her ring, originally to decide who would take over the Brown family when the two had gotten

this

emotions were already boiling over. She played it casual and took a sip of porridge. “Say,

Rita looked

she’d forgotten to take the ring off

with his food, looked curiously at the ring on

he choked mid-swallow. “Why… why’s that ring

kicked him under the table. “That’s exactly the

it was the Brown

but looking at his expression, she

touched the ring and said mildly, “I didn’t buy

“Then?” Mason demanded impatiently.

ring, Zoe had had enough. Her reply was straight to the point. “The old lady gave

was utter silence in the

looked at each other, their faces turning

full well what the old lady had

to

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