Marrying His Nemesis: Kicking My Scumbag Fiancé Away!-Chapter 127: I Agree to the Divorce (Part 1)

Chapter 127: Chapter 127: I Agree to the Divorce (Part 1)

Early the next morning, Seraphina Thorne got up and prepared to visit her father at the rehab center, and share the good news of the retrial of her brother’s case.

As the new year approached, the weather in Varden was especially cold.

The overcast sky blocked out the sun, with lead-gray clouds merging with the morning fog, making everything appear dull and gray.

She wrapped herself up tightly against the cold wind outside the window, but couldn’t help coughing.

She shrank into herself as she waited at the bus stop for several minutes, without a bus in sight.

Just when she was considering whether to catch a cab, a familiar sea blue SUV pulled up by the roadside.

The car window rolled down to reveal Ethan Sterling’s face.

The man sitting in the driver’s seat was as strikingly handsome and otherworldly as he was the night they first met.

Perhaps due to lack of sleep, his brows were slightly furrowed, and he looked somewhat haggard and tired, his voice a bit hoarse.

"Get in, I’ll give you a ride." Ethan lifted his right hand, waving a document folder in it, "And let’s talk about the divorce."

Seraphina knew she couldn’t avoid him forever.

After hesitating for a moment, she finally walked over to open the car door, and sat in the passenger seat.

Watching her buckle her seatbelt, Ethan restarted the car.

He didn’t speak the entire way.

The silence inside the car was almost oppressive.

Seraphina quietly turned her head, looking at the man in the driver’s seat.

Several times she wanted to speak, but didn’t know what to say.

The car drove out of the city, taking the highway leading to the suburbs.

Ethan finally spoke, "I agree to the divorce."

Seraphina had been waiting to hear this sentence for days.

Yet when he actually said it, it didn’t bring the expected joy, instead there was an indescribable heaviness in her heart.

"Thank you."

Ethan gave a deep, reflective smile.

"I thought you might say something else."

Seraphina twisted her fingers together, and after a while, slowly spoke.

"I’m sorry."

After saying it, she felt a bit regretful.

Those were the two sentences he least liked to hear.

Seraphina desperately tried to find another topic, but after thinking it over, still didn’t know what to say.

The car turned off the highway and soon approached the rehab center.

After parking on the roadside, Ethan took the document folder and handed it to her.

"I’ve already signed the papers, once you sign them, send me a copy."

Seraphina took the folder, pulled out the divorce agreement and a pen.

Without reading the contents carefully, she turned immediately to the last page, ready to sign it.

Ethan turned, gazing at her right hand holding the pen.

"Aren’t you going to check the contents?"

"No need, I trust you."

Their marriage was a contract from the start, with no issues of asset division involved.

From beginning to end, she had been penniless, what was there to worry about?

From when they signed the marriage agreement to now signing the divorce agreement.

Seraphina had blamed him, and been angry with him...

But deep in her heart, she still trusted Ethan, trusted that he wouldn’t make things difficult for her over the contract.

She knew he wasn’t that kind of person.

At the words "I trust you", Ethan’s brow slightly twitched.

Flipping to the last page of the document, her gaze passed over Ethan’s signed name before moving her right hand to the signing space.

Memories of signing their marriage agreement on the day they got their marriage certificate flashed uncontrollably before her eyes.

From marriage to divorce, in just a few short months.

This man had already left a significant mark on her life.

When she was really about to sign the divorce agreement, she inexplicably felt a strange emotion.

What that emotion was, even Seraphina wasn’t quite sure.

Ethan’s gaze remained fixed on her pen, his handsome face showing little expression.

Watching her finally begin to move her fingers, ready to sign her name on the document.

He suddenly reached out his right hand, but halfway through, as if burned, he withdrew it.

Seraphina was focused on the document, unaware of his small gesture.

Signing both copies of the document, Seraphina placed one into her backpack and the other back into the folder.

"Well... I’m leaving then."

Ethan made no reply.

Opening the car door, Seraphina stepped out, placing the folder containing the divorce agreement on the front passenger seat.

She lifted her eyes, gazing at Ethan in the driver’s seat, her lips moved twice, but in the end she turned away without saying anything.

Closing the door, she turned and walked towards the entrance of the rehab center.

"Seraphina!"

Behind her, Ethan’s voice suddenly called out.

Seraphina turned her face, only to see he had already gotten out of the car.

In Varden’s winter, the scenery in the suburbs was especially bleak.

The man’s black coat contrasted against the pale winter sky, making him look so slender.

Seraphina’s throat tightened, her eyes aching all of a sudden.

She struggled to control her emotions, forcing a smile.

"Do you... still have something to say?"

Ethan stood by the car door, looking at her hair and clothes flying in the wind from a distance.

Unable to hold back, he ran over and wrapped her in his embrace.

Seraphina was a bit startled and stiffened in his arms.

Tightening his arms, holding her firmly, Ethan’s voice by her ear was a bit hoarse and low.

"Whether you believe it or not, I want to say once more, I never betrayed you from start to finish. If I ever hurt you, I’m sorry."

Burying his face in her long hair, Ethan took a deep breath.

He abruptly let her go, turned and got back into the car.

The sea blue car slowly turned, and then, as if in a fit of defiance, it jerkily accelerated away.

As she watched his car fade into the distance, it felt as if Seraphina’s heart was being torn apart.

She knew that from this moment on, they would be strangers to each other.

There would never be any connection between them again, and thinking of this, her nose tingled as tears involuntarily fell.

She stood there until the sea blue car disappeared from view, then finally took a deep breath, wiped away the tears, and turned to walk towards the rehab center.

She walked up to her father’s hospital room.

Forcing a smile, trying to look as she always did.

"Dad, I have good news for you, my brother’s case is being retried."

Theodore Thorne, who was practicing picking up beans with chopsticks, trembled, and the bean he’d picked up fell back to the floor with a clink.

"Really?"

Seraphina walked over, picked up the bean from the floor and placed it back in the dish.

She reached out her hand, holding her father’s pale, trembling hand.

"The lawyer said my brother’s chances of winning are high. By the New Year, you can come home too, and we can be reunited as a family."

Theodore’s hands trembled, his lips quivered, and his murky eyes were filled with tears.

"Good, good... We’ll make dumplings, watch the Spring Festival Gala, attend a concert. We’ll... do it all together!"

Reaching forward to embrace her father, Seraphina nodded vigorously.

"Yes, together."

The father and daughter held each other, crying aloud together.