Sweet Divorce novel Chapter 201

Morning the next day.

As the sky lightened, Rita woke to the clamor of her alarm.

She’d cried too fiercely last night. Her eyes were swollen. She shot a look at her phone, switched off the alarm, and checked her missed calls.

No missed calls.

Liam hadn’t called again or texted her.

Seems like he’d lost patience in her.

Good.

That was good.

Blow after blow to his heartstrings – that should be enough to accept it when she said that she never loved him, right?

Enough to let her go, even hate her… without his weak spot, whatever happened to her or the Brown family, he wouldn’t care or be threatened.

Thinking of that, Rita’s heartache stopped.

She clambered up, rinsed herself up, and went downstairs.

Noah and Amelia were having breakfast right now.

Seeing her come down, Amelia looked at her swollen eyes and frowned. “Did you not sleep well last night, Rita?”

Noticing Amelia was staring at her eyes, Amelia rubbed them awkwardly. “I slept well enough… drank too much water yesterday and bloated up.”

Walking out of the kitchen, Zoe just so happened to hear Rita’s excuse.

Zoe frowned. “What do you mean you drank too much water. You were crying too hard because of your stomachache last night, weren’t you?”

“If you’ve got a stomachache, just say so. What’s with the story, kid?” Noah wore a confused expression at the side.

With her lie mercilessly deconstructed by her mother, Rita made a face. “Just didn’t want Dad and Grandma to worry is all.”

Rita’s explanation had Noah even more worried.

Even Amelia was looking at her in a different light now. She was beginning to feel that – even though they didn’t get along well earlier – this child was good at heart.

Rita didn’t know what was going through Amelia’s mind at the moment.

She got ready to dig in, but Zoe swapped the cold dish in front of her with a steaming bowl of millet congee. “No cold dishes – have millet congee instead!”

Rita chuckled. “A bit strict, are we, Mom?”

“Strict enough that I don’t want to see you cry from the pain.” Thinking back to how hard Rita had been crying last night, Zoe felt her heart throb.

Forget whether or not Rita was her flesh and blood. They were still family of twenty years.

Under Zoe’s supervision, Rita could only watch the others dine on flavorful dishes while she contended herself with bland millet congee.

Why on earth did she say it was a stomachache back then?

Couldn’t she have gone with a headache???

Looks like she was reaping the consequences for her lie now.

Because she’d never liked millet congee, with everyone having eaten their fill and returned to their room, there was still over half a bowl in front of her.

“Oh, having breakfast, Zoe?” Rose walked over, sitting casually in front of them. “What a coincidence. Mason and I haven’t eaten yet. Do you have any grub left?”

They’d only just fought yesterday, but now Rose was acting like nothing had happened.

Zoe felt awkward about the whole thing, but fixed up the two of them all the same.

While waiting for their food, Rose looked up at Rita, eyes darting, trying to think of a way to soothe their strained relationship from yesterday.

But then she saw the emerald jade ring on Rita’s finger and her expression darkened.

Everyone in the Brown family knew that that ring was meant for the Brown heir.

Because there had only been two daughters in this generation, Amelia had always kept it on her ring, originally to decide who would take over the Brown family when the two had gotten married.