The Coldest Man in the Room Melted Only for Me novel Chapter 449

Was he just supposed to stand in the hallway?

Shouldn't he be offered a cup of tea or coffee in a waiting area?

"Mr. Finch..."

Franklin cut him off. "Restrooms are down the hall on the left. Pantry is down the hall on the right."

Scott's mouth twitched. He forced a smile. "Thanks." He wandered off. He couldn't just stand there like an idiot.

Guarding the door like twin statues? The thought alone made him cringe.

Inside the room.

Sebastian smoked in silence. It wasn't until the cigarette was half gone that he raised an eyebrow and spoke. "I expect there won't be a repeat of last night."

Pierce's expression stiffened, though he feigned confusion. "What do you mean by that?"

Sebastian didn't give him the courtesy of playing along. "Since you chose to betray her, there is no longer a place for you by her side."

Pierce hadn't expected him to be so blunt, let alone so ruthlessly self-righteous. The rage that had been festering in his chest exploded. His tone sharpened. "She is my wife. Aren't you afraid of becoming a public laughingstock for stealing another man's woman?"

A faint, mocking smirk touched Sebastian's lips. If he had truly wanted to steal her, Pierce would never have had the chance to marry her in the first place. "You're already divorced. You seem to have a terrible habit of forgetting your place."

The mention of the divorce fueled Pierce's fury. "And who engineered that divorce?"

It was Sebastian who leaked the cheating scandal, tanking Landon Enterprises' stock and forcing him into the divorce!

Sebastian arched an eyebrow. "And who engineered the affair and the betrayal?"

But he refused to accept this!

A bitter sneer twisted Pierce's lips as he spat out his venom. "She loved me, which is why she married me. Even if we're divorced now, you can't erase the history of our love.

And you? You only slipped in when I hurt her, when she was vulnerable and heartbroken. She doesn't love you. You're just a life raft for her trauma, a desperate rebound because she has nowhere else to go."

The words acted like a poisoned needle, piercing into the softest, darkest corner of Sebastian's heart. His grip on the cigarette tightened, the silver ash falling silently onto the floor.

He raised the cigarette to his lips and took a deep drag, using the sharp bite of nicotine to suppress the violent darkness churning within him.

When he slowly looked up, his pitch-black eyes were bottomless. The casual indifference was gone, replaced by a terrifying, glacial hostility. "Love in the past means nothing. I am the one standing beside her now, and I will be the one protecting her for the rest of her life."

Sebastian's heavy gaze pinned a slightly paling Pierce to his seat. His voice was low, laced with absolute, crushing authority. "If you ever dare to harass her again, today will look like a mild warning. I will thoroughly and utterly pulverize every last shred of your empire and your future!"