Mr. CEO Your Wife Has Wanted a Divorce for a Long Time (by Zora Pradeep) novel Chapter 604

Chapter 604

Maggie, don’t do anything stupid. You hear me?” Old Mrs. Miller looked her dead in the eye. “You need to go through with this divorce”

nly once it was truly over could she actually start fresh.

You’ve got your whole life ahead of you. Whatever you want to do, whenever you want to do it, you’ll have every chance in the world. But right now, the most aportant thing is getting this one step right.”

aggie knew exactly what the old woman was worried about.

ie took a moment to steady herself. “Okay. I hear you.”

d Mrs. Miller relaxed a little and gave her hand a pat.

at night, Maggie lay awake for a long time. She woke up late the next morning, which was pretty much inevitable.

hen she came downstairs, the only person around was the housekeeper. “Where’s Grandma? And Aunt Helen?”

e housekeeper smiled. “They went out for a walk.”

aggie nodded and didn’t push it.

e had breakfast, then figured she’d go out and find the old woman, spend some time with her. She walked around the whole neighborhood and came up apty. What she did find was a neighbor who knew her, who called out as she passed, “Out for a walk too, Maggie?”

eah, I was hoping to catch up with my grandma. You haven’t seen which way she and my aunt went, have you?”

Imm? Your grandma and Helen left this morning. Didn’t look like they were going for a walk though.”

aggie stopped. Then it clicked.

ey must have gone to the hospital to visit her mom.

d Mrs. Miller was holding up fine for her age, but she was getting up there, and lately she seemed to feel the weight of that more than she let an. In the past

months, she’d been going to see her daughter at the hospital a lot more than she used to.

Lat part was nothing new.

it after the night they’d both had, the old woman must have figured Maggie would fall apart if she knew she was going to see Sally right now. And yet she uldn’t just stay away from her own daughter either. So she snuck out without saying a word.

aggie looked away. She pulled in a slow, deep breath, said a few words to the neighbor, and headed back to the Miller house

led barely walked through the door when her phone buzzed.

shella.

laggle hesitated. Then picked up.

abella asked if she’d gone anywhere fun today, then launched into everything they’d done, the places they gone, the funny little things that had happened

long the way

faggie listened quietly, barely getting a word in

Mom?

Maggie was usually on the quieter side, but going completely silent was something else isabella asked, “You okay?

Maggie snapped back. “I’m fine.”

from the barkaround. “Isabella, did you find what I was looking for?”

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Chapter 604

Got it, I’m coming!”

Then back to the phone “Mom, I gotta go

Go ahead, Maggie said, her voice flat.

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