The Untouchable Ex-Wife

Chase’s guess was right on the money—Stefan did indeed plan to completely distance himself from Carmine Pawnshop, so he would never turn up anyway under the guise of “Mr. Q” ever again. He even intended to discard the SIM card with the hidden IP address. But as soon as he saw the video of Renee being tortured in the water prison sent by Chase, he instantly lost his mind, retaining not the slightest trace of reason.

At the moment, he was accompanying Seraphina as they attended a very important family banquet of the Murphy family where they discussed the cooperation between the Hunt family and the Murphy family for the next season.

Seraphina’s father, Ethan Murphy, was fully satisfied with the agreement he had reached with Stefan, and all throughout the evening, he had been dropping hints every now and again that they should start planning for the wedding between Stefan and Seraphina.

“You must be aware of how I’ve treated you all these years, Stefan. You and my darling Sera have been childhood sweethearts—both of you basically grew up sharing the same pants, so it’s only natural that you’d be sharing the same bed now!”

“Daddy!” With face flushed red, Seraphina hastily stopped her father from continuing on, fearing that if she was not careful, Stefan might suddenly stop keeping up the act. “Stop it! You’re drunk! How can you say such embarrassing things? Didn’t I tell you that Stefan and I are only dating now? We’ll only think about marriage when the time comes.”

“What embarrassing things? I worked my *ss off my whole life to turn the Murphy family into what it is now, and I intend to hand it all over to you one day. If you’re with Stefan, then it means that the Murphy family will be in Stefan’s hands one day too. Stefan’s a talented man, so I’m sure that with him at the helm of the Murphy family, we’ll certainly get richer and richer…”

Ethan patted Stefan’s shoulder with eyes full of admiration and added, “My son-in-law, the Murphy family’s future is in your hands. Just think about it, with the joining of the two great families—the Murphys and the Hunts. Who would even dare to touch us?!”

Beach City besides

stop talking

Murphy family members started joining in, each of them

me,” Stefan began with a stony

without even glancing at the glasses raised in

before persuading him, “But the banquet has only started, Stefan! Everyone’s still drinking happily! It might be inappropriate to get up and leave in the middle of everything, don’t you

urgent business

Seraphina asked with a lowered voice as she smiled and continued pleading, “Please, I beg you! My daddy is a proud man. You’ll

for another minute,” Stefan replied sternly as he shoved Seraphina’s hand

wait! Stefan, please don’t

not pretend anymore and just started to