"Did you see the news? Those 'affectionate' photos of us. Considering where we are right now, it's highly inappropriate. I assume you feel the same way. Please have the article taken down. For you, it's just one phone call..."
Before she could finish—
Beep beep beep—
The line went dead.
He hadn't spoken a single syllable.
Raelynn suddenly felt a suffocating tightness in her chest.
The sheer helplessness morphed into rage—the fury of being so blatantly disrespected.
When she tried calling back, it went straight to voicemail.
Raelynn felt a sudden, intense urge to curse him out.
Instead, she shot off a quick message to Professor Alistair Finch.
Today, Lily was strictly forbidden from looking at any phones.
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The Tea Room.
A waiter approached to serve dessert and accidentally bumped Sebastian's elbow.
Sebastian's finger slipped and hit the end-call button.
His expression didn't shift. He simply placed the phone down on the table.
He had zero intention of calling back.
The waiter quickly apologized, "I'm so sorry, Mr. Croix. I slipped..."
"It's fine," Sebastian said, taking a slow sip of his drink.
Next to him, Leo Flynn looked heavily burdened and in a foul mood.
He had just gotten out of confinement.
The old man was notoriously fair but brutal with punishments.
He was merciless, even to his own grandson.
Leo was now in deep trouble, demoted and essentially "exiled" to a branch office.
If he didn't want the rest of the Flynn family to devour him alive, he had to figure out a way back to headquarters.
The whole ordeal was giving him a massive headache.
The only person who could help him strategize was Sebastian.
She was seething with rage.
She had tried prying information about the gala night out of Julian.
Because Julian had gone upstairs with Sebastian.
She hadn't witnessed the actual fallout.
But all Julian said was, "Nothing happened. It was a misunderstanding."
Her gut told her Julian was lying to her face.
Holding back her frustration, she took a silent breath and looked at Sebastian. "It's fine. I'm not that petty."
She probed gently, "It must have been the camera angle, or just a total misunderstanding. You've never had 'scandals' like this before, Seb. Will it negatively impact you? Should we look into getting it removed?"
Of course she was annoyed by it.
She still couldn't wrap her head around how Theon Tanner had entirely vanished from the narrative.
It was as if he had never even been there!
Not a single picture of him!
Yet they somehow captured Sebastian and Raelynn looking like a romance novel cover? Ridiculous!

Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Boss, Your Wife Signed the Divorce Agreement Before the Wedding
I think for as slow as the beginning was, their turning point is just so fast... really hope we actually get to read about R and S and their rekindle.... we did not read 950 pages for their story to be sidelined. Im for this sideline story, but it if it's to separate from the main characters and their story, please make it separate book....
Author please update more chapters...
I really like Zella, she is becoming a good friend to Raelynn. Ian needs to go. The relationship with Chloe is confusing. Some chapters they are cousins, sometimes they're sibling. A little confusing....
Julians role as big brother- I feel comes from a genuine place, but in a relationship thats is just as stained as Raelynns and Sebastians. It hard for me to connect to his big brother role as he too was such a problem before. And while they talked a little bit, the conversation did not give me the believe there was resolution between Raelynn and Julian. For a brute, he should make his feelings clear about the situation to Raelynn and then step back, until there is more foundation for him to stand on....
Knife in my heart. I hurt for Raelynn. She has made it this far, but how much does she have in her, everyone has a breaking point. Some back of me hopes the author is joking to lighten the mood after so many intense chapters, but thats not this kind of story or couple....
My heart cannot take this. This, cannot be how it ends with these too. They need resolution with each other. Raelynn needs to be more humanize with Sebastian. We know she is hurt, but this is the branch. She needs all these answers, if not for them to be together, then for Lily to have both her parents. Stop with the mind games Raelynn!...
Its like the story is just repeating itself...
Timeline is getting lost for me. So many treasured little memories Raelynn has but yet, he was gone for years ? Anyways... still rooting for them! These two need a heart to heart. Lily "forgetting" someone, not possible in this day and age and I hope thats not their storyline....
Sebastian, the man of few words.... needs to find all the words! Needs to fight for her! On note, seven years seems like a long time for this master plan (which I am sure goes back much farther). Rereading this novel, and it seems like everything has played out in a 5-8 month time span. And I feel like all Sebastian's doings/ plan have not been revealed. I hope we get to see the whole picture and have the resolutions we hope. But seven years of mistreatment, I just don't see Raelynn fully coming back. If these was 2-3 years, maybe, and I know it changes some characters around, but it would still work. Rooting for them!...
Literally on edge!...