You Faked Your Deaths to Punish Me?! That’s Illegal, Family! novel Chapter 96

Chapter 5

After I left, Theo stood in the cemetery for a long time.

He didn’t understand what was happening to himself. He thought he’d grown tired of me, yet when he heard me say I’d loved the wrong person,

his heart ached unbearably.

He’d tried to stop me, instinctively wanting to salvage something.

But I, who once looked at him with nothing but love, now had only coldness in my eyes.

He began to feel anxious, uneasy.

Cassidy approached to pull him away, but for the first time, he found her touch irritating.

He withdrew his hand, had his driver take her home, and returned to the mansion alone.

Every corner of the mansion was filled with sweet memories of us.

He went upstairs, opened the safe, and took out our marriage certificate, staring at it for a long time.

He thought: Yes, we weren’t divorced yet. She’s still mine. What did a little straying matter? would always come back to me. I shouldn’t be so petty about it.

But lying in bed, he couldn’t sleep.

When he closed his eyes, all he saw was me gathering ashes with my bleeding left hand.

He opened his eyes, irritably ran his fingers through his hair, and got up to grab several bottles of alcohol from the living room.

Only when sufficiently drunk did he return to the bedroom, clutching our marriage certificate to his chest before falling into a deep sleep.

The next morning when he woke, the photo on the marriage certificate was torn-my half was missing.

His eyelid twitched with anxiety.

He threw back the covers and searched the entire bed, finally finding it wrapped in the sheets-the photo was wrinkled and partially torn…

It couldn’t be fixed!

He frustratedly pressed the photo under a cup for hours, but eventually had to accept reality.

Cassidy brought breakfast over while he was frantically calling around, frowning as he asked if anyone could restore the damaged photo.

She peered over, saw the pieced together marriage certificate photo, and a flash of venom crossed her eyes.

“You can’t restore the damaged photo. Just take new ones with Delilah.”

In the past, such a suggestion would have earned her a dark look from Theo, who would have thrown the certificate in the trash before lifting her face and saying, “What’s the point of taking photos with her? I’d rather take them with you.”

But now, Theo fell into contemplation, not even sparing her a glance.

Theo?”

Since the cemetery incident yesterday, she felt something had changed in him.

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It made her incredibly anxious.

She tried to hold his hand, but just before she could touch him, he suddenly stood up and walked out.

“I have to go out. Eat without me!”

At the door, he paused and added, “When you’re done, have the driver take you home.”

Cassidy was furious.

When had Theo ever dismissed her like this?

It had to be Delilah-that bitch must have done something.

The bitch causing trouble even after death!

With this thought, she looked up, saw our wedding photo on the wall, and smashed a chair against it.

Theo had no idea his home was being destroyed.

He drove around with our marriage certificate for hours, considering going to the registry office, but halfway there, he thought it might be better to find me for new photos.

But what excuse could he use?

His pride wouldn’t let him make the first move toward reconciliation.

Yet looking at the certificate with half the photo missing, he drove to my apartment anyway.

In his mind: I cared so much about our marriage-I’d cried for days when I lost my wedding ring, let alone our marriage certificate.

But after knocking for ages, all that answered him was hollow echoes.

Standing in the hallway, he tried calling me repeatedly-voicemail every time, his texts left unread.

Just then, a neighbor came out to throw away garbage. Seeing Theo, she paused.

“Aren’t you James’s son-in-law? Looking for Delilah?”

Theo nodded somewhat woodenly, and the neighbor’s expression grew stranger.

“You didn’t do something terrible to Delilah, did you?”

Theo froze.

Had he done something wrong to Delilah?

Not letting the witness testify? That was because Cassidy said the witness was my father’s student and would surely be biased.

It made sense to him, especially since her brother was genuinely dead. That was fact!

As for Cassidy… he had indeed been good to her, but that was because she’d helped him before. He’d made her promises.

But physically speaking, he’d never cheated.

Before he could shake his head, the neighbor dumped her garbage over his head.

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“I KNEW you must have done something awful to Delilah! No sign of you when James died, no sign when Delilah and her mother left. Pah! What happened to loving Delilah forever? Men are all trash.”

Theo was stunned.

What did she mean James died? What did she mean Delilah and her mother left?

He was about to ask when the metal door slammed shut in his face.

All he was left with was garbage scattered around him….

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