Chapter 6
Ashton took out a small box from his coat, avoiding the curious gazes. from the audience below, and placed it in my hand.
He opened the box in front of me.
Inside was a pair of dazzling wedding rings.
“Jenny, stop messing around. Whatever you’ve missed, I’ll make it up to you. Come with me now. You can’t go through with this wedding.”
I thought I’d be emotional when I saw the rings, but I wasn’t.
Ashton tried to pull me away.
At this moment, his phone rang.
It was Cecilia.
She had heard that Ashton came to stop the wedding and publicly exposed our relationship. She was crying and threatening to jump off a building.
Whenever someone approached her, she would throw bricks at them.
She almost pushed a firefighter, who tried to approach from the side, off the building.
Ashton hesitated for just a second before turning to leave.
I called out to him.
He thought I was trying to stop him from saving someone and couldn’t help lecturing me.
“Jenny, saving a life comes first! Just cancel this wedding you planned
just to spite me! Do you know that bigamy is a crime? You call yourself a top student?”
He looked anxious like he was afraid Cecilia would jump if he got there
too late.
I knew that from the last life to this one, I was never Ashton’s first choice.
So this time, I didn’t even feel sad.
I just threw the small box he forced into my hand back at him, put the other ring on my ring finger, and said, “Ashton, compared to your ring, I like this one better.”
Ashton froze.
On the phone, Cecilia was still crying, begging him to hurry over.
He didn’t say anything and just left.
Because of Ashton’s arrival, the wedding became a chaotic mess.
He left, leaving me with a disaster to clean up.
Everyone asked about my relationship with Ashton, trying to see if I had actually married him.
The wedding had to be called off urgently.
I blocked Ashton from WhatsApp, blocked his number, and only mailed him the divorce papers, determined to cut ties.
The day he received the package, he called me using an unknown number, questioning me.
“Jenny, what do you mean? Just because I didn’t save you first in that car
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accident, you want a divorce?! You even blocked all my contacts?! Are you being childish or what?
“I told you; Cecilia wasn’t in good health–I had no choice but to save her first!”
I didn’t want to argue with him, so I hung up directly before blocking the number again.
I didn’t expect him to show up at my house.
My mom still didn’t know about my relationship with Ashton. She thought he was just joking at the wedding that day, because in her this adopted brother was flawless.
She brought him to my room and even thoughtfully closed the door.
Neither of us said a word. Ashton suddenly slammed the divorce agreement on my desk.
He pinched the bridge of his nose, looking exhausted.
eyes,
“Jenny, how long are you going to keep this up? First a fake marriage, now threatening me with divorce. We agreed back then–once we got married, there’d be no divorce.”
I replied to him, “Fine, then have Cecilia leave your house. Where there’s her, there can’t be me, and where there’s me, there can’t be her.”
Ashton didn’t agree.
Of course, I knew he wouldn’t agree.
Since Cecilia returned, she had been living in his house, clinging to Ashton, always around him.
Every time I asked Ashton to send Cecilia away, he would impatiently
scold me, saying. “You’re too vicious! Cecilia has been taking care of me without any official status, and she hasn’t complained. Yet, you’re already feeling wronged. Don’t you know that Cecilia doesn’t have any family left here? Christmas is coming up, and you want her to spend it alone?”
This time was no different. When he realized he had to choose between me and Cecilia, Ashton paused for a moment.
He quietly said, “I’m sorry.”
Then he took a pen and signed his name on the divorce agreement.
Just like in the previous life, this time, he didn’t hesitate and chose Cecilia.
