Boss, Your Wife Signed the Divorce Agreement Before the Wedding novel Chapter 39

Raelynn had no idea how Lily had managed to pick up on it.

She prided herself on being good at hiding her feelings, yet Lily saw right through the mask.

She wasn't unhappy, and she certainly wasn't heartbroken.

It was just that... when so many things piled up on top of each other, the weight pressed down on her chest until she couldn't breathe, and there was absolutely no release.

"No, of course not." Raelynn squeezed her hand tight, forcing her smile to look softer and more genuine. "Did you finish your bath, baby?"

Lily nodded. She pressed her soft little cheek against the phone screen, rubbing it gently as if giving her mother a silent hug. "Mommy, don't be sad. I know you're trying to change the subject, and that's okay. When I come back to you, Mommy will be happy again."

Raelynn quickly flipped the phone so the camera faced her chest.

She tilted her head back, desperately trying to force the tears back down.

But it was completely useless.

After everything that had happened recently, she acted like she was decisive and unbreakable.

But the truth was, she was just enduring it.

Enduring it was her only option.

When your pain has nowhere to go, pretending everything is perfectly fine is the only way to protect yourself.

Raelynn roughly wiped the corners of her eyes with her sleeve and put her smile back on. "Okay. Just wait a little longer, baby. Mommy is going to bring you into the light very soon."

-

After being dumped on the side of the road in the freezing cold for over half an hour last night.

Inevitably, Raelynn caught a terrible cold.

But she absolutely hated taking medicine. When she was a kid, her mentors forced her to identify and taste raw herbs, leaving her with a visceral, physical aversion to it.

She figured she would just tough it out for a few days.

Before the new year, her main goal at NexusMind was finalizing the project proposals.

After the holidays, she planned to dive headfirst into promoting natural, integrative medicine. Over the years, holistic practices had lost their reputation due to various issues.

Poor ingredient quality, sketchy practitioners, misdiagnoses, and outright con artists.

Because of this, public opinion on traditional healing had become incredibly polarized.

That was the exact problem she wanted to solve.

Seraphina was walking right beside him, looking over a medical bill.

They looked like the perfect, happy 'family of three.'

Love me, love my dog—Sebastian was taking that to the absolute extreme.

Because he loved Seraphina, he was fully committed to taking care of her little brother, personally escorting him to the doctor when he was sick.

Maybe she had stared a little too directly.

Right before walking into the pediatrician's office, Sebastian glanced over.

Their eyes locked for two full seconds.

Then, he smoothly looked away, acting exactly as if she didn't exist.

Seraphina noticed it too.

She wasn't worried that Raelynn would lose her mind and run over screaming that he was her husband. Raelynn wasn't stupid enough to humiliate herself like that.

Feeling incredibly smug, Seraphina naturally slid her hand through Sebastian's empty arm, clinging to him.