The Day I Quit Him (Autumn and Mars) novel Chapter 175

**Chasing Light, Finding Peace by Rohan Verma**

Mrs. Lopez’s cries reverberated through the air, each sob echoing the turmoil within her heart.

Amidst the chaos, Oliver Lopez felt a searing pain in his temples, a throbbing headache that seemed to intensify with every wail. The previous night had been a sleepless torment, and now, the cacophony of emotions swirling around him only added to his misery.

“That’s enough!” he barked, his voice cutting through the noise like a knife.

He turned to his wife, his gaze filled with disdain. “You’re a grown woman! The moment something goes awry, all you know how to do is cry. At this rate, you’ll weep away any shred of good fortune our family has left!”

“Have you forgotten why we’re here?” she retorted, her voice trembling with indignation. “Do you honestly believe Lydia’s face will heal magically if you just keep wailing?”

“I can’t fathom how you managed to screw this up,” Oliver snapped, his frustration boiling over. “A simple skin graft, and yet there are complications? All you had to do was stay by her side at the hospital, and you couldn’t even manage that. What good are you?”

This was a new low for Oliver; he had never before unleashed such venomous words on her.

Mrs. Lopez was already simmering with rage, but she had been suppressing it, convinced they needed to appear united today.

But hearing Oliver’s accusations in front of the two younger adults was a breaking point. “And what about you?” she shot back, her voice rising.

“When I called you, which little tramp’s bed were you in?” she demanded, her eyes blazing.

“You think you’re still some young stud? Playing around and cheating on me! You’re just a middle-aged man with a gut! Do you really think some young girl is genuinely interested in you for your charm?”

“Don’t you know what a girl who throws herself at you at this age is really after?” Oliver countered, his anger flaring.

“Have you no shame?!”

The confrontation escalated, and Oliver never anticipated that his wife would air their dirty laundry so publicly. His nostrils flared, and he resembled a bull ready to charge.

Autumn, a bystander to this heated drama, couldn’t help but watch with wide-eyed fascination. The spectacle was almost surreal, her eyes practically sparkling with the thrill of witnessing such raw emotion.

Mars Wright, however, was less entertained. He frowned, recognizing that this couple was a truly lost cause.

Stepping forward, he attempted to intervene, hoping to restore some semblance of order. “Mr. and Mrs. Lopez, let’s all just take a moment to talk this out. Why are we fighting?”

Mars had hoped that addressing them formally would earn him some respect, perhaps even calm them down.

But Mrs. Lopez turned her ire on him instead. “You think I’m just going to call out your father-in-law and not you? I called you too when Lydia’s surgery went south. Where were you?”

“You didn’t go chasing after Autumn when she left, so you obviously weren’t with her. Which little fox were you with? Was it that Hannah King?”

“You two are a real piece of work, a perfect father-and-son-in-law duo! Both of you love to mess around with those trashy women on the side!”

Mars froze, the weight of her words crashing down on him.

Who would have thought his own mother-in-law would be the one to expose his affair?

Instinctively, he glanced at Autumn, who looked as if she might sway right off her feet. “You and Hannah?”

“No, no, it’s nothing like that! Hannah and Lydia had a fight and ended up in the hospital. She’s an employee, so I just…”

Mrs. Lopez, now fully consumed by her rage, was ready to burn everything to the ground.

“Then why is she even working at your company in the first place? Mars, do you think we’re idiots? She studied design, and you made her your executive assistant?”

“What else are you hiding from us? Do you really think we’re all deaf and blind?”

Oliver sensed the situation spiraling into chaos.

He quickly seized his wife’s arm, shooting her a desperate look that screamed for her to stop.

Lydia was disfigured, and their family’s relationship with Mars was now hanging by a thread.

They had come today to hold Mars accountable, but also to leverage this incident for their own gain.

They weren’t there to become enemies!

But Mrs. Lopez was too enraged to notice his silent plea.

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