His Ex-wife Is An Heiress (Amara and Tobias) novel Chapter 33

“That darn bastard,” Melanie huffed as she and Amara walked into her apartment. Although she had not experienced the entire interaction between Tobias and Amara, she had seen the aftermath, which was Amara coming back into Giovanni with a mood obviously ruined. “That man really had the nerve to show up and ruin our night! Just you wait, the next time I see him, I’ll-“

“Mel,” Amara called, calming her friend down before she says something that she’d later end up doing. “Let it be.”

“Let it be?” Melanie exclaimed, watching with narrowed eyes as Amara walked to the kitchen and picked out a bottle of water from the fridge, pouring some for herself and drinking it. “Tobias acts the way he does after nearly mistreating you for years and then later threatening you for a divorce and you say I should ‘leave it be’.” She scoffed. “How do you expect me to leave it be?”

Amara smiled softly. “Because I want you to. If I start giving a flying fuck about him again, he’ll win. So I’m just going to treat him like he’s a stranger and strangers don’t deserve my attention.” Saying this, she walked over and handed a glass of water to Melanie.

As she accepted the water, Melanie couldn’t help but look at her friend in a way that showed she had more than one thing to say.

“What?” Amara asked.

“You’re being too…calm. Is this because Tobias showed some interest in you? Because it seemed like he cared about what you were doing? Do you regret divorcing him?”

Amara was silent for a few seconds before she shook her head. “Firstly, I don’t regret divorcing him. It was the best decision I’ve ever made. Secondly,” There was a pause in her speech, extra seconds of silence before she continued. “Tobias doesn’t care about me or what I do, that back there, was simply his pride.”

Inhaling deeply, Amara added. “News of the divorce has barely been made public, so he must have been worried that I’d smear the Larsen name if someone recognized me in the club.”

She shook her head and released a sigh. “Tobias doesn’t care about me. The only thing he cares about is his family name, Labyrinth…and Celestine, so don’t think too much into his actions.” That was the concluding word for the topic.

Saying no more, Amara took the now empty glass from Melanie’s hand and walked back to the kitchen, leaving her friend to stare at her bad with a look of concern.