Sir, Please Sign Here to Get a Divorce-Chapter 140: The Woes of Two Men

Ethan Yardley had just returned to The Sovereign Villa when he ran into Quinn Gardner, who was standing by the door, hesitant to go inside.

He got out of the car and came up behind Quinn Gardner. "What are you doing, skulking around out here?"

Quinn Gardner turned and sighed. "You’re back just in time. Let me crash at your place tonight."

"Why come to my place when you have a perfectly good home right here?"

"I’m afraid she’ll bring up the divorce again. Let’s go."

He threw an arm over Ethan Yardley’s shoulder, and the two started walking back to Ethan’s villa.

Ethan Yardley hated being touched and disdainfully shrugged off Quinn Gardner’s hand. "You two still haven’t sorted things out?"

"How am I supposed to sort it out? It’s fine when she doesn’t see me, but the moment she does, she brings up the divorce. And the kid... he’s the same way. He really pushes me away. Now, if I want to even catch a glimpse of them, I have to hide and watch from a distance."

"Serves you right."

Ethan Yardley spat out the three words, feeling not an ounce of sympathy for his friend’s plight.

That stung Quinn Gardner. He shot him a cold look. "Is that any way to treat a friend?"

"You should be glad I haven’t punched you already."

Seeing Ethan Yardley’s grim expression, Quinn Gardner asked, "What’s wrong? You got troubles too?"

Ethan Yardley didn’t answer, just strode into the house.

Quinn Gardner kept pace with him. "Is that girl of yours giving you trouble again?"

"You drink?" Ethan Yardley asked, ignoring the question.

Quinn Gardner smiled. "It’s rare for you to be the one suggesting a drink. Let’s see what good stuff you’ve got."

"Take it or leave it," Ethan Yardley tossed back.

He went inside and asked Mrs. Miller to prepare some food, then went upstairs to change into some casual clothes.

Quinn Gardner followed him upstairs. After a quick look around, he didn’t see Serena Yardley and knew she wasn’t home. ’She must be fighting with Ethan again,’ he figured.

A little schadenfreude crept in as he leaned against the doorframe of the walk-in closet, smirking at Ethan Yardley while he changed.

"I guess this makes us partners in misery, huh?"

"Get out!"

Ethan Yardley growled.

’How could his problems even compare to mine?’

Quinn Gardner kept smiling. "So, tell me. What’s going on with your girl?"

Ethan Yardley ignored him, finished changing, and went downstairs.

Mrs. Miller had the food ready and had opened a bottle of whiskey.

The two men sat down at the table and began to drink freely.

After two glasses, Quinn Gardner found himself missing the mother and son next door more and more.

He gestured to Ethan Yardley. "Give Nina a call. Tell her to bring Leo over."

Ethan Yardley ignored him. "If you want to call, call her yourself."

"Ethan, I’m begging you. Just call them over so I can see them!"

Quinn Gardner lost all his inhibitions when he got drunk. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

He leaned against Ethan Yardley, grabbing his arm and pleading.

Anyone who didn’t know better would think he was gay and had a thing for Ethan Yardley.

Ethan Yardley disgustedly shook his hand off.

"It’s just a few steps from here to your place. If you miss them, go see them.

You’re not like me. I miss her, I call her, and she doesn’t pick up. Even when I go all the way to her dorm at school to see her, she won’t even spare me a glance."

The thought that he, a grown man, had his mind completely consumed by that young woman all day long was endlessly frustrating.

He was in no mood to meddle in someone else’s business.

"Oho, so you two really did have a fight?"

Quinn Gardner started laughing and raised his glass. "Come on, my fellow sufferer. Let’s have a toast."

Ethan Yardley clinked glasses with him and downed it in one go.

"Tell me, why are women so difficult? Mine is because I deceived her, but what reason does yours have to be giving you a hard time?"

Quinn Gardner looked completely dejected.

Truly, a woman’s heart is a needle in the ocean—utterly impossible to fathom.

Ethan Yardley frowned and said casually, "Because I got her pregnant."

"Huh?" Quinn Gardner was stunned. "Serena Yardley is pregnant?"

Ethan Yardley glanced at him. "Yeah."

"Isn’t her being pregnant a happy occasion? Why would she be fighting with you?"

"She doesn’t want to have it. Never mind, why am I even telling you this? Come on, another round."

He filled another glass and downed it in one gulp.

Quinn Gardner wasn’t really drunk yet.

But he didn’t want to drink anymore.

He stood up and gestured to Ethan Yardley. "Come on, take me home."

"You don’t know the way yourself? Why do you need me to take you?"

Ethan Yardley paid him no mind.

Quinn Gardner explained, "I’ll pretend to be drunk. It’ll be more respectable if you take me back. Otherwise, I really don’t have the face to see them."

Ethan Yardley snorted. "You, respectable? As if."

"Stop wasting time. Let’s go."

Quinn Gardner forcibly pulled him to his feet and dragged him out the door.

Ethan Yardley was very reluctant.

If they hadn’t grown up together, he really wouldn’t want to be his partner in crime.

It was eight in the evening when the two of them arrived at Nina Thorne’s front door.

Ethan Yardley rang the doorbell, and Quinn Gardner immediately slumped against him, pretending to be completely drunk.

A nanny quickly came to open the door. Seeing the two bosses, she hurried to help Ethan Yardley get the man inside.

Nina Thorne was in the living room, teaching her son how to read and write.

When she saw who had come in, her face immediately darkened. She closed the book and motioned to her son.

"Leo, go to your room and get to bed."

Leo Thorne didn’t move. He glared puff-cheeked at the two men in the distance, then stood up and told his mother with the air of a little man:

"Don’t be scared, Mom. I’ll protect you."

With that, he marched forward, put his hands on his hips, and stared at Ethan Yardley with a fierce pout, asking:

"Mr. Yardley, why did you bring him to my house? Mom and I don’t want to see him! Get him out of here, or I’ll hit you!"

Ethan Yardley reached out and patted the boy’s head. "Your dad’s drunk and has nowhere to sleep. Can you guys let him stay for the night?"

"He is not my dad! My dad wouldn’t be so cruel. He’s a bad man! I won’t let him stay here."

Leo Thorne tilted his head back and yelled furiously, his little face looking quite ferocious.

Slumped against Ethan Yardley, Quinn Gardner heard every word his son shouted. Each one was like a sharp arrow piercing his heart.

He pretended to stir from his drunken stupor and crouched down to look at the child before him.

"Leo, Daddy knows he was wrong."

"Go away! You’re not my dad!"

Leo Thorne backed away, grabbed an apple from the coffee table, and raised it as if to throw it at Quinn Gardner. "Go away, or I’ll hit you!"

Seeing his son’s rejection, Quinn Gardner’s heart felt like it was being sliced by a knife.

He looked up at the seated woman, his voice low and hoarse. "Honey, I really know I was wrong."

"Quinn Gardner, are you back to sign the papers?"

Nina Thorne remained expressionless. She bent over, pulled the Divorce Agreement from the coffee table drawer, and held it out with a pen. "Since you’re here, you might as well sign."

The moment Quinn Gardner saw the document, his eyes rolled back in his head, and he collapsed onto the carpet without any regard for his image.

The nanny was so startled she cried out, "Mr. Grant...!"

But as she moved to help Quinn Gardner, Nina Thorne stopped her. "Leave him be. Let’s see how long he can keep up this act."

The nanny didn’t dare to move again and could only retreat.

Seeing the man collapse in front of him, Leo Thorne turned, picked up the water pitcher from the coffee table, and poured it on his face.

Feeling warm water splash on his face, Quinn Gardner squinted his eyes to take a peek.

Seeing it was just the child, he paid it no mind and continued to feign unconsciousness.

Ethan Yardley stood by, watching. He found the whole thing ridiculous.

’This Quinn Gardner... to get back in, he’s really willing to throw away all his dignity and pride.’

’I should probably get going. Don’t want to ruin his performance.’

Ethan Yardley decided not to get involved and turned to leave.

But Nina Thorne called out to him, "How has Serena been these last two days?"

Ethan Yardley glanced back at the woman and said dejectedly, "She won’t even come home. She just stays at school all day and ignores me."

As he said this, he gave off the strange impression that he, Ethan Yardley, was the one being wronged.

Nina Thorne said, "I’ll call her and have her come back tomorrow then."

Ethan Yardley was grateful. "Thanks. Well, you... three can handle this as a family. I’m leaving."