Restoring a Life After Seven Years of Wrong Love novel Chapter 181

"Jabez, you have to try this. Simon made it himself, and it's absolutely delicious."

Jabez Shelby glanced at the spread, his eyes darkening slightly. "You made this?"

"Ahem." Simon Shelby cleared his throat, dodging the question. "It's all the same, it's all the same. Just eat."

It was a hearty spread of dishes and a savory soup, more than enough for three people.

Jabez had just come from a business dinner. He hadn't been hungry, but the familiar aroma suddenly stirred his appetite.

Simon hadn't eaten Yvette Yeats's cooking in three or four months, and he had been craving it desperately.

Jabez picked up his silverware and began to eat, while Simon continued chatting away with Willow Huxley.

Walking past the hospital room, Yvette inadvertently glanced inside and spotted the familiar food containers on the table.

She stopped in her tracks, staring coldly at the three people inside.

Throughout their marriage, whenever Jabez had a business dinner, she had always prepared a meal for him in advance, worried he wouldn't eat properly and his stomach issues would flare up.

Sometimes he ate it. Sometimes she found her cooking tossed straight into the trash.

So, there was no way he didn't recognize the taste of her food.

The estate staff had explicitly told her this meal was for his grandmother, Sybil. Yet here it was, in Willow's hospital room.

Jabez had used Sybil as an excuse to trick her into cooking a recovery meal for Willow.

Was the Shelby Group going bankrupt?

Making his ex-wife cook for his current girlfriend?

The window at the end of the corridor was open, and the cold draft seeped into Yvette's skin, making her shudder involuntarily.

She wrapped her arms tightly around herself, rubbing her shoulders.

The autumn breeze wasn't supposed to be this cold, yet she felt like she was freezing to the bone.

Inside, Simon was gesturing wildly about something to Willow, causing her to cover her mouth and giggle.

Even the usually stoic Jabez had a faint smile playing on his lips, the deep frost in his eyes melting away.

Disregarding the idyllic scene, Yvette stepped right into the room.

Simon looked like he had just seen a ghost.

Jabez looked surprised at first, but then calmly set down his fork, elegantly drawing a napkin to dab his mouth.

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