Boss, Your Wife Signed the Divorce Agreement Before the Wedding novel Chapter 74

Raelynn's voice was remarkably calm.

She had suddenly said the word "hubby."

The entire table stopped eating and looked over.

Even Seraphina's expression shifted slightly.

Only Sebastian's dark eyes remained fixed on Raelynn, completely unreadable, without making a sound.

Julian also looked at Raelynn in surprise.

However.

Raelynn smiled at everyone again, pausing for dramatic effect.

"My hubby..."

"Well, I'm a widow. But it gets worse—some creep robbed his grave to use him in a twisted post-mortem wedding ritual."

The spacious private dining room fell silent for several seconds.

Someone finally reacted, "Huh? Seriously?"

Raelynn nodded, looking distressed. "Yeah, he got dug up. But we weren't divorced when he kicked the bucket. Tell me, does that count as cheating?"

Everyone had almost believed her at first.

But the moment Raelynn dropped this morbid joke.

There was another few seconds of silence.

Then, sudden bursts of laughter erupted.

Everyone was laughing together.

They instantly assumed Raelynn was just messing around and played along with the joke. "Of course it counts! Where's the loyalty? And what kind of desperate freak digs up a married man's bones? Talk about thirsty!"

"Hahaha, even ghosts are desperate for a ring? Maybe there's a shortage of men in the underworld."

Seraphina's face had darkened completely.

Her lips pressed into a tight line as she glared across at Raelynn.

How could she not know?

Raelynn was actually insulting both her and Sebastian.

Sebastian rested his arm on the table, his long fingers tapping a slow rhythm on the surface. He looked up, his gaze pausing on Raelynn's face for a few seconds.

His eyes betrayed neither pleasure nor anger.

But even without speaking, simply staring at someone like that...

It carried an immense, oppressive weight.

Raelynn pretended not to notice.

They had started it.

Julian was now certain.

When Raelynn got downstairs, Preston was already there. Seeing how thinly she was dressed, he immediately took off his jacket and started nagging her. "Do you think you're invincible? It's freezing out, don't you have any sense?"

When Raelynn had given birth to Lily, she had suffered a severe hemorrhage.

If Preston hadn't been there, mobilizing the hospital's specialists to deliver the baby, it could have ended in a disaster.

Since then, Raelynn's health had been heavily depleted.

She was much weaker than the average person.

Professor Finch had wanted to build her strength back up, but Raelynn was stubbornly defiant. She hated taking herbal medicine, going so far as to secretly pour premium restorative brews into her potted plants.

It had infuriated Professor Finch so much that he grumbled about it for years.

Raelynn's ears were calloused from hearing it.

Preston just treated her too much like a little girl.

"Okay, okay, Preston the Preacher, stop lecturing me." She obediently pulled the jacket tighter around herself.

"Get in."

Preston couldn't be bothered to go greet Sebastian and Julian; he just wanted to get out of there.

Who knew.

This exact scene was witnessed by the group walking out.

Julian stared at Preston's attentive gesture of wrapping Raelynn in his jacket. He frowned inexplicably, a strange feeling washing over him as he instinctively asked, "What's the deal with them? Why is Preston so close to Raelynn?"