Oh Please, My Ex-wife novel Chapter 136

“Is John okay? Thank you for taking care of the children. Once I finish this, I’ll go back.” Alice understates the situation as she doesn’t want Rupert and her children to get worried.

But Rupert is cleverer than she thinks he is. He knows what happened at the wedding venue and says anxiously, “John has been worried about you. He can move his fingers, though he can’t talk. Your children are looking after him well.”

Relief sweeps through Alice as she hears that John’s hands can move. “I’m fine. I’ll go to find him as soon as I get things done here. Please tell John I’m really sorry for the wedding. I…”

“I know you didn’t mean it. I believe that John also hopes you can live a happy life.” Rupert gets sympathetic as he thinks of the bitterness in John’s eyes, together with a fleeting compromise when Alice was brought away.

He has been John’s best friends since their childhood. No one knows better about John than he does, so he can’t help but to ask Alice, “Do you still want to marry John?”

Alice pauses a beat and answers, “I just want to look after him.”

To look after…which is not to marry John.

Rupert seems to understand her and holds back his unspoken words. “Fine. I’ll tell him what you tell me.”

“Thanks.”

The call gets Alice relieved a lot as John and her children are safe. Before hanging up, Rupert says, “Something weird also happened on that day.”

“What?” Alice is confused.

“The boss of the Night Group came to the wedding venue and asked about you. His expression got strained as he knew that you were brought away by Edward Smith. Then he left.”

The Night Group?

Randall Collins?

Why was he at the wedding venue? Alice freezes as she thinks of something before lowering her eyelids. “I’ve got it. Keep me updated.”

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It has been triple days since Alice last saw Edward.

Finally, she hears his voice from the study at the end of the second floor. It sounds like he’s on the phone.

“…I know. I’ll handle it. And Hale family…”

Hale family?

Alice stops in her tracks as she thinks of the wedding day when Edward left his own wedding party and took her away from her wedding. Edward abandoned Joanna Hale on their wedding.

Hale family won’t let it go easily.

Alice takes a deep breath and pushes the door open, taking in Edward sitting behind the desk with closed eyes, brows tightly furrowed anxiously.

Her heart skips a beat as he’s drowning in so deep sorrow that she has no idea whether to leave or not.

Magically, Edward happens to open his eyes and looks at her direction. Their gazes meet, driving Alice to run away as Edward stands up, moving toward her.

He notices a fleeting pity in her eyes and feels stung. “I’m fine.”

“Are you fretting over me?”

“No. I just want to know when will you let go of me,” Alice cuts Edward out and stares at him calmly, “We’re not engaged, and I’m the last one in the world cares about you.”

Edward’s eyes darken after hearing her words. He flashes a self-taunting smile as he looks at her unwavering gaze. “Yep, I’m a nobody to you.”