Who's Crying Now, Ex-Husband? novel Chapter 298

If she could forget the pain her family had carved into her from childhood, then surely she could forget the flutter of her heart for one person.

Mila had always been good at shutting the door on her feelings.

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After that night, Mila decided to quit her job as a court assistant.

When she went to hand in her resignation to the court manager, Lysander happened to be there, deep in conversation with the manager. He didn’t even glance her way, his expression as unreadable as ever.

Thankfully, having already performed a sort of emotional amputation, Mila felt nothing but numbness as she handed over the letter.

The manager looked surprised, instinctively glancing at Lysander’s impassive profile before quickly looking away.

After a brief attempt at persuasion, Mila insisted she was too busy with her studies, and that was that.

From that day on, she never set foot on the court again, never asked about Lysander, forcing herself to cut him out of her life completely.

The truth was, Mila never cared much for sports. She wasn’t passionate about the game. She only ever went to the court because of the person who played there. Now that she’d made up her mind, there was no reason to look back.

She threw herself into her studies like a woman possessed, diving so deep into textbooks and programming projects that she sometimes dreamed of the clacking of keyboards and the blur of colorful code on her screen. She worked even harder than before, burning all her energy just to keep her mind off everything else.

Eventually, her best friend Miranda had seen enough.

“At this rate, you’re going to turn your brain to mush,” Miranda declared. “You’ve already jumped up several places in the class rankings, your scholarship’s been approved—come on, you need a break. My treat!”

Without waiting for a response, Miranda shut Mila’s laptop, pulled her up, and dragged her out to a bar.

“But my code! I haven’t even saved—” Mila protested, frantic.

“Relax, it’ll be fine,” Miranda waved her off.

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