The Divorce That Brought Us Back novel Chapter 380

Nora sat on a bench by the lake, absentmindedly toying with her phone, her eyes fixed on the crew setting up the stage in the distance.

Although she told herself she didn't care, and she genuinely wanted to not care, her physical state betrayed a lingering sense of dissociation.

She had lost the vibrant energy she possessed earlier.

She was contemplating life.

She suddenly wondered what the point was of living in a miserable environment.

To awaken others, to critique the system, to raise a voice. Like reading a classic tragedy where the only sane person in a burning house realizes that even if their shouts can't shatter the darkness, their sheer anger at injustice and disgust toward hypocrisy sparks an unwillingness to play dead. That in itself is a defense of human dignity.

Was she doing justice to her own life?

Should she go back?

At that thought, Nora suddenly remembered Maloney.

Nora could sense that Maloney vastly preferred Southampton over the Capital.

Maloney hated putting on a fake smile and playing the political games of the elite families.

Ever since he was young, he had always loved tinkering with electronics and technology.

A while back, Maloney had brought The Spark AI Twins home, saying he wanted to raise them like children. He asked Nora to take on the role of their mother—chatting with them, taking them for walks, giving them tasks, teaching them basic human logic, and offering them praise.

Every three days, Maloney would ask The Sparks if they preferred Dad or Mom.

For half a month straight, The Sparks consistently answered "Mom."

Maloney had asked Nora what she was saying to them.

Nora hadn't said anything special; she just acted the part of a gentle, caring mother.

Maloney analyzed Nora's interactions with The Sparks and started putting more effort into building emotional connections with them, but the result was the same: they still preferred Mom.

Stubbornly insisting that there was a flaw in their core coding, he marched back to the office to work overtime and rewrite the code.

Back in the Capital, Maloney had spent the vast majority of his time managing the corporation, leaving him with almost no time to personally participate in tech development.

He thoroughly enjoyed his life in Southampton.

Earlier, when Seraphina had tried to drive a wedge between Nora and Maloney, she claimed he was using Nora as an excuse to consolidate power.

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