Who's Crying Now, Ex-Husband? novel Chapter 557

This wasn’t the way Forrest had planned for everything to come out, and even he, usually so direct, couldn’t help but feel a little embarrassed as he caught Mila’s wide-eyed look of astonishment. His gaze flickered away, uncharacteristically evasive.

"Technically it's just an engagement," he began, shrugging awkwardly. "And you said yourself, Jade's in charge of the whole wedding. Let me handle this one—let’s go with my plan for the engagement party, all right?"

"Fine, fine," Mila replied, her tone light. What else could she say? He’d made things incredibly easy for her—she barely had to lift a finger.

Once the basics were settled, however, they hit a snag: the guest list.

Mila started first.

Her closest friend, Miranda Wayne, was still overseas and couldn’t make it. On Jade’s end, there was no way she’d allow her adoptive mother to travel such a long distance given her health, not even for an engagement.

As for the Sutherlands—those relatives had been cut off years ago. No way she was inviting any of them.

Then there was Felicity Fontaine. For a long time, this woman had all but taken the place of her own mother in Mila’s heart, and Mila desperately wished she could be present for such an important moment. But the whole point of this engagement was to publicly separate herself from the Montgomery family, which made inviting Felicity impossible.

When she finished tallying things up, Mila realized with a strange emptiness that, aside from business associates, she had no one else to invite.

Forrest didn’t fare much better.

"My parents aren’t coming," he stated bluntly. "They’d only make a mess of things and ruin the evening." The Whitmore relatives were the first names to be crossed off his list.

He could at least invite a few friends, but after years spent living abroad, most of his circle was still overseas. Some of his closest friends and colleagues—especially the mentor he respected most, who was almost like family—simply couldn’t make it in time.