The Day I Quit Him (Autumn and Mars) novel Chapter 282

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Mars Wright completely lost it.

“No way!”

“You can’t possibly mean that!”

Mars struggled, desperate. “Autumn, you’re lying to me, right?”

“We were so in love. How could you not want to see me again?”

“And now?”

Autumn’s question left Mars stunned. “What?”

A cold smile spread across Autumn’s face.

“You say we were in love? Is this how you loved me?”

“You’re the one who cheated. You’re the one who did all that disgusting stuff. And now *you’re* the one who’s sorry? So I’m just supposed to take it? Let you betray me, play me for a total fool, and still be loyal to you?”

“Has it ever occurred to you that maybe I deserve better? That maybe *you’re* not good enough for *me* anymore?”

“I know why you’re here today.”

Autumn’s voice was sharp and powerful. “It’s simple. You saw that I’m doing better without you after the divorce, and you couldn’t stand it. So you came here to ruin everything for me.”

“Mars, what on earth makes you think that if you destroy my life, I’ll come crawling back to you? Did every other man on the planet drop dead? Or am I just so pathetic that I have to settle for a lost cause like you?”

Mars was speechless.

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Autumn had just exposed his darkest, most hidden thoughts, and he obviously couldn’t admit to them in public.

But he had no argument to make, either.

After all, his actions today had already laid his intentions bare.

No amount of arguing would help him now.

“Autumn, it’s not like that…”

Even though he knew it was a lost cause, he had to try to salvage the situation.

“We have years of history together. Even if I did mess up, you can’t just write me off completely like this.”

“Besides, I’m apologizing, aren’t I?”

Mars looked at Autumn with an entitled expression. “Can’t you just forgive me this one time?”

Autumn shook her head. “No.”

The veins on Mars’s hands bulged.

“Why?”

He roared in frustration. “I made one mistake! Do you really have to blow this so far out of proportion?”

“Let’s be real, it’s just because you found someone better than me, isn’t it?”

“Just admit it. You’ve been hooking up with Owen Bennett for a while, haven’t

you?”

“I always wondered if something that ‘coincidental‘ could really happen–you just ‘happening‘ to get pregnant with Owen Bennett’s child.”

“But it all makes perfect sense if you two were sleeping together from the start.”

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“Maybe I’m the real idiot here, thinking I drove you away when you were actually the one backstabbing me all along.”

“Do you have any proof?”

Autumn looked down at him, her expression imperious. “Or do you think that ugly, jealous look on your face is enough to sling mud at me?”

“Did it ever cross your mind that this is just karma for what you did?”

“I…”

Guilt–ridden, Mars lowered his eyes.

It wasn’t that the possibility hadn’t occurred to him.

He just refused to accept it.

In his mind, he’d just been temporarily led astray by Lydia and had done something

he shouldn’t have to Autumn.

He’d come to his senses now, and he was ready to apologize and live a good life

with Autumn again.

Autumn was supposed* to come back and be with him.

After all their years together, why did it have to come to this?

“I made myself perfectly clear to you a long time ago. We’re divorced. We should have gone our separate ways.”

“Since you weren’t willing to do that, don’t blame me for what happens next.”

Autumn’s words made Mars’s heart drop.

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

Autumn’s lips curved into a faint smile. “You’ll see.”

Mars’s eyes were filled with terror.

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It was as if he were seeing Autumn for the first time, and for a moment, he was at

a loss for words.

“Autumn, what did you do?”

Nina was dying of curiosity. She grabbed Autumn’s hand, swinging it back and forth as she pouted. “C’mon, tell me.”

Seeing her act like this, Autumn chuckled. “I just told a few people about the things he’s done.”

“Mars, you need to remember this: not everyone has to tolerate your mistakes.”

“I never wanted to burn everything to the ground. I just wanted us to go our separate ways. You’re the one who wouldn’t let it go.”

“So don’t blame me for using my own methods to get you out of my life for good.”

Mars’s heart hammered in his chest, and his body tensed with fear and anxiety.

“What did you do?”

The greatest fear is the fear of the unknown.

And Mars himself had plenty of secrets he couldn’t afford to have exposed.

So he had no idea what Autumn might have done behind his back.

“Autumn… you’re just trying to scare me, aren’t you?”

The corner of Mars’s mouth twitched violently. “I’ve been watching you this whole

time. You haven’t done anything.”

Autumn gave him an enigmatic smile.

“You’ll find out soon enough whether I did anything or not.”

“Since we’re all here, why don’t we stick around for the main event?”

In the crowd, Ruby Bennett’s face darkened as she watched Autumn turn the

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tables with just a few words.

It was true that high society loved a good scandal. They were also obsessed with

appearances.

But there was one thing everyone in that room valued above all else, something they considered absolutely essential: competence.

Marrying into a family of equal standing was important, sure, but marrying a

useless trophy wife was a sure–fire way to ruin a family’s fortune.

Besides, who didn’t want a daughter–in–law who was both capable and socially

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