Boss, Your Wife Signed the Divorce Agreement Before the Wedding novel Chapter 24

"Could you just tell Sebastian that your talk of divorce was just a tantrum?"

Raelynn frowned instantly.

Matilda squeezed her hand tighter. "I'm not saying you can't get a divorce. What I'm saying is, until you're ready to marry someone else, don't let Seraphina know you and Sebastian are actually splitting up."

"I will personally arrange a wonderful new marriage for you as quickly as possible. Good family, great character—you won't lack for anything. You'll step right into a comfortable life."

"But the Croix family is a massive empire. Cameron is going to get out eventually. If the brothers start tearing each other apart over a woman, it will destroy this family. He's behaving himself in there and might get out early. For all we know, if Seraphina has to wait too long for your divorce, she might just run right back to Cameron."

Raelynn hadn't expected this angle from Grandma at all.

She understood the old woman's panic.

But...

"Grandma, I really don't want to wait anymore."

She refused to spend another second rotting in this agonizing marriage with Sebastian.

Plus, keeping Lily a secret was priority number one, which meant finalizing this divorce immediately.

Naturally, she wasn't going to agree to Grandma's endless demands to 'just wait a little longer'.

Matilda saw the sheer determination in Raelynn's eyes. She sighed heavily. "Are you absolutely certain? Have both you and Sebastian agreed to the divorce with no disputes?"

Raelynn thought back to the fact that Sebastian already had the divorce papers. Logically, he had to have read them.

And since he hadn't come to argue with her about it afterward, he must have agreed to all the terms.

Silence meant consent.

She nodded. "He agrees."

"Then do this for me, Lynnie. Keep it a secret from Seraphina for now. Your mother-in-law and the rest of the extended family won't hear a word about the divorce either. It stays strictly between the three of us. As for Sebastian, I will personally threaten him to make sure he doesn't breathe a word about the divorce to Seraphina for a full year."

Matilda absolutely loathed Seraphina's two-timing nature, but she knew this was a crisis that required a tactical approach.

Pushing too hard would just backfire.

Raelynn thought about it and finally agreed.

As long as it didn't mess with her actual legal divorce, she didn't care.

All she had to do was wait out the three months and go pick up her divorce certificate.

Everything else was the Croix family's problem to solve.

She stepped out of Grandma's room, only to bump straight into Sebastian, who was just pushing the door open.

He looked down at her, his eyes unreadable.

When Matilda saw him, she waved him over. "Come sit down. We need to talk."

Seeing that the old woman looked relatively stable, Sebastian raised an eyebrow and took a seat.

"I hear you and Lynnie are getting a divorce?"

Sebastian picked up an orange and started peeling it, his tone completely indifferent. "No."

Raelynn had brought it up, sure.

He hadn't catered to her emotional outburst that day and told her flat-out to draft the papers herself.

But he still hadn't received anything.

Raelynn hadn't taken a single concrete step to actually do it.

Just like always, she was throwing a fit and then pretending nothing ever happened.

So no, they weren't getting a divorce.

Matilda's voice instantly faltered, a flash of realization in her eyes.

She stared at Sebastian's face for a long moment, trying to find a lie, but saw none. "You're not getting a divorce?" she asked.