Second Chance His Unending Love (Calista Hartwell) novel Chapter 20

Chapter 20 Evander’s Wife and Kid

The interview ended.

Calista glanced at her phone. It was time to meet at the

Courthouse.

She found Killian and kept it short. “You got the papers?”

If it wasn’t absolutely necessary, Calista didn’t want to say a single word to him.

Killian’s face was dark, and his cold fury seemed to freeze

the air around them.

He pulled out a small fancy box from his pocket. Like some emperor sitting on his throne, he looked down at Calista with

condescending pity.

“See this bracelet? If today hadn’t happened, this would’ve

been yours.”

He wasn’t the kind of heartless bastard who got rich and

dumped the wife who’d stuck with him through everything.

He’d gone out of his way to get her a gift. This was the

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But today, Calista had let Olivia trash his and Austin’s reputations, so now she’d completely blown her chance.

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Killian raised his hand and tossed the bracelet and box into

the garbage. Like he was throwing out something disgusting.

Quick and clean.

For a moment, Calista actually felt sad. He was trying to brush her off with some cheap promotional bracelet from god knows where.

Her heart hurt, but not because of the bracelet itself. It hurt because after all these years of raising his children and running his household, she was only worth a freebie to him.

He kept humiliating and degrading her, treating her less like.

a wife and more like a servant.

But he used to climb up cliff faces just to pick her a wild lily.

Were all those memories fake?

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Killian saw exactly the reaction he wanted on her face, and

the tightness in his chest eased a bit.

He looked down at Calista with that superior attitude. “We’re

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Back at Frost Manor, Calista parked outside and told Olivia to stay in the car.

She knew coming back to the Frost Manor meant walking

into a total shitshow.

Every single person in the Frost family was a piece of work.

Especially Stephanie, who acted like she was living in the Middle Ages and loved making up rules for Calista to follow.

After all these years with them, Calista was sick of it.

She wanted a divorce, and sooner or later she’d have to deal

with the fallout.

Olivia seemed to understand what was happening and insisted on sticking with her mom no matter what.

Calista couldn’t talk her out of it, so she brought Olivia along and headed back to the Frost Manor.

The courtyard was quiet. All the servants who usually worked

there were gone.

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Olivia could feel the tension in the air, like a storm was about

to hit. “Mom, they’re not gonna get violent, are they?”

Calista wasn’t sure, so she shoved her phone into Olivia’s hand. “Olivia, if things go south, you run first and call the police, okay?”

“Mom, I’m not leaving you!”

“Sweetheart, as long as you’re not here, they can’t use you against me. I trust you to get yourself to safety.”

Olivia gripped the phone and looked down. Actually, there was something even better than calling the police…

She quickly typed out a text message and hit send.

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On the outskirts of New York, there was a facility surrounded by layers of tall trees, covered in electric fencing, and heavily

guarded.

Even from far away, you could hear the loud training drills coming from inside.

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After finishing an intense combat training session, the team

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Just then, Connor hurried over and saved everyone from the pressure. He respectfully handed over Evander’s phone.

“Mr. Hayes, you got a text message.”

Evander was about to say that one text message wasn’t worth reporting, but then he casually glanced at the screen and saw an unsaved number.

His ice-cold eyes instantly changed. He looked like a completely different person from the devil commander just a moment ago, and his whole demeanor turned so gentle it was almost soft.

After he opened and read the message, his expression shifted again to something serious and worried. He immediately turned and headed out.

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