Sir, Please Sign Here to Get a Divorce-Chapter 14: Seeing Uncle Kissing Sylvia Schuyler

Chapter 14: Chapter 14: Seeing Uncle Kissing Sylvia Schuyler

At night, Serena Yardley couldn’t sleep a wink.

She tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep, and kept taking out her phone to look at her uncle’s photo over and over again.

Finally, at midnight, she couldn’t resist dialing Ethan Yardley’s number.

Surprisingly, he wasn’t asleep and answered after just a few seconds.

"What is it?" The man’s pleasant, magnetic voice somehow sounded much more distant to Serena Yardley now.

Hiding under the covers, Serena Yardley bit her arm, her voice choked with sobs as she spoke:

"Uncle, I miss you so much."

’I want to be with him. I want to see him.’

’I want him to hold me every night as I sleep, just like before.’

Ethan Yardley covered the phone’s receiver and looked at Sylvia Schuyler, who was still awake. "I’m stepping out to take a call."

Sylvia Schuyler immediately continued her blind act, crying out:

"Ethan, don’t go. Ethan, I can’t see anything. Don’t leave me."

"I’ll just be right outside the door," Ethan said.

Once he stepped out of the hospital room, he asked into the phone, "Where are you?"

Of course, Serena Yardley had heard Sylvia Schuyler’s frantic cries.

A piercing pain inexplicably shot through her heart again. But as much as it bothered her, she had to pretend everything was fine. "I’m at school."

"Mm, I can’t get away right now. Sylvia Schuyler isn’t asleep yet."

Serena Yardley was instantly hurt to hear that. Her voice turned sour. "Then go ahead and keep her company. I’m hanging up."

"Get some rest ear—Sylvia."

Ethan Yardley hadn’t finished his sentence when he saw Sylvia Schuyler get out of bed and fumble her way toward the door.

Just as she was about to fall, Ethan Yardley rushed forward to steady her.

The moment he steadied her, Sylvia Schuyler threw her arms around Ethan Yardley, crying out in terror:

"Ethan, Ethan, don’t leave me! You’re all I have now. I can’t see anything. I only feel safe when you’re by my side.

"Ethan, hold me. I’m scared."

"Don’t be scared. I’m here. I won’t leave you."

Forgetting the call was still connected, Ethan Yardley put his phone in his pocket and held Sylvia Schuyler as he took her back into the hospital room.

In her dorm, huddled under the covers, Serena Yardley was the one who ended the call. Tears streamed uncontrollably from her eyes.

’My uncle belongs to someone else now.’

’He was just as gentle and considerate with Sylvia Schuyler.’

’So it turned out he was like that with any woman.’

’No wonder he doesn’t need me to have his child anymore. He’s afraid of future complications, afraid of being entangled with me later on.’

Serena Yardley curled into a ball, her hands resting on her abdomen. The thought that she was carrying his baby while he no longer needed her plunged her into such deep despair that she didn’t know what to do.

She brought her hand to her mouth and bit down hard, desperately trying to stifle her sobs.

Once again, she lay awake all night.

As a result, she couldn’t concentrate at all during her exam the next day.

She had just managed to endure until the end of the exam when she received a call from her uncle.

Serena Yardley stared at the screen, hesitating for a long time before answering.

In the end, though, she still answered.

On the other end of the line, the man asked, "What took you so long to answer?"

Her voice laced with resentment, Serena Yardley replied, "I didn’t hear it. What is it, Uncle?"

Even her tone had grown cold.

Ethan Yardley heard it too, but he paid it no mind. He said lightly, "I’m discharging Sylvia Schuyler from the hospital today..."

"Uncle, can you just not mention her to me? I know you two are inseparable now, but what I don’t see won’t hurt me. Why do you have to bring her up?"

Serena Yardley couldn’t stop her temper from flaring.

She had never dared to lose her temper with her uncle before, but this time, she couldn’t control herself.

’She was just angry. Furious, even.’

Her shouting ignited his temper as well.

"Serena Yardley, you’ve gotten bold, haven’t you? How dare you talk to me like that."

Just as Serena Yardley was about to retort, a handsome youth in a pristine white shirt approached from not far away, his smile as refreshing as a spring breeze.

"Serena..."

The young man’s voice was melodious, like the gentle chirping of cicadas on a summer breeze.

Seeing him approach, Serena Yardley hastily hung up and tried to walk around him.

When Gabriel Galloway saw her avoiding him again, he quickly chased after her. "Serena..."

Meanwhile, on the other end of the line, Ethan Yardley had clearly heard another man’s voice.

’Serena...’

’Called so softly and melodiously.’

’Is she that close with the guys at her school?’

For some unknown reason, Ethan Yardley felt a surge of irritation.

He was about to call back when Sylvia Schuyler’s voice came from the room again. "Ethan? Ethan, are you done?"

Ethan Yardley put his phone away and returned to the hospital room. "I’m ready. Let’s go."

On the way from the hospital with Sylvia Schuyler, Ethan Yardley’s mind was completely filled with thoughts of Serena.

’She never hung up on him first.’

’Yet after some guy called her name, she’d hung up without another word to him.’

’And she’d even gotten angry with him. It seemed the older she got, the less she regarded him.’

’He’d have to teach her a lesson when he saw her next.’

...

Serena Yardley only managed to shake off the upperclassman after she entered her dormitory building.

She walked into her dorm room to see her roommates packing their things. She calmly made her way to her desk and sat down.

Kylie Cross asked her, "Serena, why aren’t you packing? Exams are over. It’s break!"

Serena Yardley offered a faint smile. "Yeah, I’ll pack after I rest for a bit."

"But you’re a local, so your parents are probably coming to get you soon, right? That’s great. I still have a five-hour high-speed train ride home. So exhausting."

Serena Yardley smiled without a word.

’Considering she’d just be going home to an empty house again, she thought she might as well not go back at all.’

She was a married woman, yet her own husband was off accompanying another woman. Serena Yardley thought with a bitter smile, ’There probably isn’t a wife in the world more ’understanding’ than me.’

’But she knew that if this continued, she would eventually lose all hope and leave him.’

"Serena, we’re gonna head out. We have to catch our train."

Her roommates, having finished packing, were hurrying to leave.

Serena Yardley saw them to the door. Once her three roommates were gone, she was left alone in the dorm room. The silence was so deep it frightened her.

’She hated this kind of silence.’

Remembering that Mrs. Miller was at the house, Serena Yardley packed her things and took the subway home alone.

It was six in the evening when she arrived home.

Standing at the villa’s front door, she lifted her hand to enter the passcode and pushed her way inside. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

And yet!

She had taken no more than two steps inside when she looked up and saw a man and a woman locked in an embrace in the living room.

From her angle, it looked like the two of them were...

’Kissing?’

It struck Serena Yardley like a bolt from the blue. The backpack on her shoulder fell to the floor with a THUD. Her eyes stung as if filled with sand, a sourness filled her nose, and her throat felt tight.

Finally, unable to control her emotions any longer, she turned in despair and ran.

Hearing the noise, Ethan Yardley turned his head.

Seeing that Serena was back, he quickly set Sylvia Schuyler down on the sofa. He was about to turn and call out to Serena, but Sylvia grabbed him and wouldn’t let go.

"Ethan, what are you doing? Don’t leave me."

"I’m just getting something over there. I’ll be right back."

Ethan Yardley insisted on prying Sylvia Schuyler’s hand off and quickly followed her out of the villa.

Just as Serena Yardley was about to leave the courtyard, Ethan Yardley called out, stopping her. "Serena Yardley."

Serena Yardley froze, and traitorous tears began to stream uncontrollably down her face.

But she didn’t make a sound, only stubbornly straightened her spine and kept her back to him.

Ethan Yardley said, "What scene are you making now? Sylvia Schuyler can’t see, and her leg isn’t healed yet. I was just helping her."