The words dripped with venom.
He didn't even wait for Sebastian to answer.
He kept talking, his tone sharp and deliberately designed to twist the knife. "I don't know what the hell is going through your head, but I feel obligated to give you a reality check."
"Even if you nearly died saving my niece, it doesn't change a damn thing. She is a Hudson. Raelynn and Ian's connection was written in the stars. Even after you dragged her into that accidental marriage, they still found their way to each other. They've built an unbreakable bond and had a child together. Sebastian, face it. You lost. Completely and utterly."
Julian was usually laid-back, but when he wanted to cut someone down, his words were coated in poison.
Every syllable was engineered to inflict maximum damage.
After hitting a brick wall with Raelynn, he wasn't about to let Sebastian sit there in peace.
Sebastian looked at him calmly for two full seconds. "What makes you think I'm trying to change anything?"
The counter-question hung in the air, a definitive answer in itself.
He didn't care.
He didn't care about destiny, or fate, or who Raelynn chose to be with.
His absolute apathy made Julian's face darken. "You ruined her. You pushed her away. And you're telling me you don't regret a single second of it?"
Sebastian didn't even blink. His voice was deathly calm. "Correct."
"I don't regret it."
Julian stormed out, slamming the door behind him.
He was furious.
He had come here to make Sebastian bleed emotionally.
Instead, he was the one walking away blinded by rage.
He couldn't even tell if Sebastian was just putting up an impenetrable front, or if he genuinely didn't give a damn.
But either way, it was equally infuriating and incomprehensible.
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Raelynn had no idea Julian had just picked a fight and stormed off in a rage.
She and Ian were too busy trying to figure out how to hide the incident from Professor Alistair Finch.
The professor had a mandatory international medical conference to attend for Lily's birthday, which was why he hadn't been able to make it back.
He still didn't know what had happened to Lily.
She and Ian quickly got their stories straight, lying to Alistair and claiming they had taken Lily on a spontaneous vacation.
But it wasn't a permanent solution.
Once the baby was born, she would still be staring down a prison sentence.
And her refusal to leave the house stemmed from a much darker reality: the law might have been temporarily suspended, but Sebastian, Ian, and the Yves family...
They were never going to let her survive this.
She was terrified of retaliation, terrified of total annihilation.
Driven to the brink by her panic, she came up with a desperate plan.
She needed to find Cameron Croix.
The baby was his. He couldn't just leave her to die.
Bundling herself up to remain entirely unrecognizable, Seraphina slipped out of her house. Cameron wasn't answering her calls, leaving her with no choice but to stake out the Croix family estate.
She was determined to find a way inside.
By some stroke of sheer, twisted luck, the security guards at the normally impenetrable estate had temporarily stepped away from their posts.
Seizing the miraculous opening, she slipped through the gates. She knew exactly which wing of the estate belonged to Cameron, and she made a beeline straight for it.

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!...