The Divorce That Brought Us Back novel Chapter 107

She assumed tonight's drama was already swept under the rug.

After all, they were in the kitchen now...

She hadn't expected him to switch locations just to revive the interrogation.

Her swinging legs slowly stilled.

When she didn't answer, Maloney prompted her. "Parker? Your girlfriends? Your family? Have they said things?"

Nora wanted to say there was no need to name names—the whole world had spread rumors about him and Seraphina at some point.

She whispered, "None of them have ever cornered me to say it to my face."

They had only ever proclaimed it loudly in front of giant crowds.

Which meant someone actually had cornered her to say it to her face.

Maloney immediately pressed, "Who said it to your face?"

"Your..." Nora stammered.

Maloney: "My what?"

She looked up at him and finally confessed. "Your mom... said something before."

Maloney frowned.

His mother really had tracked Nora down privately.

But that was before the wedding.

He had just successfully proposed and was riding the high, eager to share the good news with family and friends.

Only for his mother to instantly turn around and express her disgust toward Nora.

Furious and shocked, Maloney had swiftly chased his mother away and comforted Nora, thankful the wedding hadn't been derailed.

"My mother brought up Seraphina to you?"

After that incident, his mother claimed she just felt Nora was too meek and merely gave her some advice.

Nora had claimed his mother just asked a few simple questions.

He never knew what was actually said.

But he knew it couldn't have been anything good.

Maloney had never been close to his parents. Since getting married, he only visited them on holidays.

Recently, at Jasmine's engagement party.

Jasmine had been slapped so hard by her mother she ended up hospitalized. That same night, Jasmine's ex-fiancé demanded Nora drag Jasmine out of bed to go appease his sister, Valery, who had ruined the party.

Nora had been agonizingly torn.

If she forced Jasmine to go, she felt it was cruel; if she didn't, she was terrified of the consequences.

Maloney had spent the entire night comforting her, but he couldn't ease her crushing anxiety.

Yet the very next day, Cassidy had cured Nora's guilt with a single sentence.

Cassidy hadn't said anything profound.

She had simply used her own impeccable logic to completely convince Nora.

Maloney suddenly understood.

Comforting Nora didn't just mean coddling her.

He could explain until he was blue in the face, and she'd just nod along, making him feel like he was punching a wall of cotton—never hitting anything solid.

Wherever her logic was tangled, he needed to use reason—whether strictly factual or heavily skewed—to completely dismantle her mental block. That was the only truth she would accept.