The Day I Quit Him (Autumn and Mars) novel Chapter 193

With Hugo and Myers acting so poised, no one else in the room dared to say another word.

“Please.”

Autumn and Owen exchanged a look.

The man instantly reined in his imposing aura. While his presence was still too powerful to ignore, at least the suffocating pressure from before had subsided.

Hugo and Myers discreetly let out a sigh of relief.

They were both college professors, academics who had spent their lives in the public sector. They didn’t have immense wealth, nor did they ever dream of striking

it rich.

Their only goal had been to raise their two sons.

“It’s a little embarrassing to admit, but for years, my wife and I always wanted a daughter. We even tried IVF, but maybe we were too old, and it never worked out, so we gave up. Then, unexpectedly, when Mars was in high school, we got pregnant. But at the same time, my wife was diagnosed with a lesion. Both she and the baby were in danger. We didn’t dare risk surgery, so our only option was to

see the pregnancy through.”

“Thankfully, fate was on our side, and they both pulled through without any lasting harm. But the baby suffered in the womb, and he was born with chronic health. problems. We always felt like we owed him, like we’d forced him into this world. just to suffer. And since our older son was already in high school, practically an adult, we poured all our energy into our younger son. We never expected…”

Hugo and Myers led Autumn and the others into their hotel suite.

They laid out their family’s story as if it were just casual small talk.

Autumn had always thought Mars’s parents were far too cold toward him, but

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hearing this, she was a bit stunned.

“But why didn’t you pay him any attention at all after that?”

From the way they told it, it wasn’t that they didn’t love their older son.

What on earth happened? Was this all just some huge misunderstanding?

“We didn’t want to, it’s just…”

Myers’s eyes were rimmed with red. “Right after the baby was born, we had Mars. come home once. We figured his little brother was here to stay, and no matter what, Mars would have to slowly accept this new member of the family. But we never imagined that one night, while we were asleep, he would try to smother his baby brother with a pillow.”

Autumn gasped.

Even her parents, who had shamelessly tagged along, felt a chill crawl up their spines.

Mars cowered in a corner of the room, as if he had locked himself away in his own

world. His gaze was vacant, and he refused to engage with anyone.

Seeing him, Hugo’s face was a mask of disappointment and helplessness.

“We were furious. Our first instinct was to call the police, but he turned it back on us. He screamed that it was our fault he’d become like this, that if he really did kill someone, it would be on us, and that he would never let us off the hook.”

Myers covered her face. “We felt we had no choice. We gave him a sum of money and told him to go to college in another city.”

“We told him then that we would always be his family, that he couldn’t accept his brother now only because he was too young and didn’t understand. We said that one day, he would come around. But I never imagined that not only would he not come around, he would go on to destroy his own family like this…”

Hugo and Myers looked at Autumn, their eyes filled with guilt.

Though they hadn’t been physically present in Mars and Autumn’s lives, they had been following the progress of Cloudbreak Corporation all these years.

They had been genuinely happy to see their older son get married and build a career. They never imagined he was doing such monstrous things behind everyone’s back.

Autumn, divorcing him was absolutely the right decision.”

“I know we never really had a chance to get to know each other, and I deeply regret that we couldn’t be a proper family, but I am still so grateful for everything you’ve done for him all these years.”

“What he did was wrong. You can handle this however you see fit. We just have

one small favor to ask.”

Myers’s voice was bitter, her face a portrait of disappointment and remorse over her son’s mistakes. “At his age… please don’t let him go to jail.”

Legally speaking, most of what Mars had done wasn’t quite criminal.

But secretly swapping the embryos–that was a gray area.

Plus, Autumn had Owen Bennett in her corner.

If she decided to press the issue, Mars might not get jail time, but he would definitely end up with a criminal record.

Autumn looked at Hugo and Myers, who seemed to have aged a decade in a matter of minutes, and her expression filled with a mixture of helplessness and sympathy.

You couldn’t help but feel for parents everywhere.

Mars had resented his parents for so long, never knowing that, from a distance, they loved him in their own way.

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He truly never knew how good he had it.

“Please, don’t worry.”

“I only did this today to make it public that my divorce from Mars was his fault–a result of his affair and everything that followed.”

“I’m not out for blood.”

“The divorce and his resignation are finalized. From now on, I just hope we can go

our separate ways.”

Hugo and Myers closed their eyes in pain. “Yes. That’s only right.”

“Thank you so much… It’s our family’s loss…”

The words had barely left their mouths when Mrs. Lopez pushed forward. “Well, since Autumn has divorced Mars, shouldn’t we start talking about Mars’s marriage to my other daughter?”

Lydia had already pitched her idea to her mother. And while Mrs. Lopez felt that the current Mars wasn’t nearly good enough for her daughter, she had to agree with Lydia: he was the best option she had now.

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