He Left Me During My Miscarriage to Support His Ex—1 Year Later, He Returned to My DIVORCE Papers Chapter 06
Silas Mercer called me not long before my shift ended.
“I’m waiting for you downstairs by the entrance.”
I took a deep breath to steady myself.
“I already made plans to go shopping with my coworkers after work.”
“You should head home without me.”
I’d originally planned to turn my coworkers’ invitation down, but I immediately accepted it after receiving Silas’s call.
My obvious attempts to keep my distance from him could not have been more transparent.
My coworker and I stepped out of the shopping mall, and Silas’s tall frame stood leaning against his black Tesla Model S.
Our gazes met from far across the pavement.
He began walking straight toward us.
My coworker greeted him with a friendly wave.
“Mr. Mercer, what a coincidence seeing you here.”
Silas raised one eyebrow, his full attention settled entirely on me.
“I came to pick Willa up.”
That single sentence left no room for anyone to doubt our relationship.
My coworker stared at me, equal parts shocked and confused.
A lazy smile tugged at Silas’s mouth.
“I’m her husband.”
“My apologies for cutting your outing short. I’ll treat all of you to dinner sometime soon.”
Silas and I left the mall together and climbed into his car.
The vehicle rolled smoothly along the road’s surface.
I kept my eyes locked straight ahead on the street.
Silas broke the quiet between us.
“Why do you keep dodging me at every chance?”
His blunt question threw me off, and I froze with absolutely nothing to say.
Before I could form an answer, his phone started ringing.
The caller ID read Luna Cole.
He ignored the incoming call.
Her number popped up a second time, and I shot a quick glance at the screen before shifting my eyes away.
This time he swiped to answer the call.
“Huizheng, my father just collapsed.”
“They’ve rushed him to the hospital right now. Could you come help me?”
Silas held no medical training whatsoever; I failed to see what help he could possibly offer her.
Silas’s gaze dropped, and he flicked a quick glance over in my direction.
I told him to pull over at the next intersection and let me out.
But he shook his head and replied.
“I’ve thought it through, and it would be better if you came with me.”
I can’t handle being alone with Luna right now.”
“On top of that, I don’t want you misinterpreting this situation.”
We’d already piled up more than enough misunderstandings between us-this latest incident would barely
add to the pile.
I spoke to him in a calm, even tone.
“Silas Mercer.”
“You want to bring your wife along to tend to your ex-girlfriend’s father? Are you deliberately trying to
embarrass me?”
“You’re determined to play the devoted son to your ex’s father, and you insist on dragging me into it too?”
Silas’s eyelashes fluttered faintly, and his Adam’s apple slid down his throat.
“I’m sorry, that’s not what I intended at all.”
“I only thought if you stayed by my side, you wouldn’t jump to the wrong conclusions”
Silas called his personal assistant and sent him over to the hospital in his place.
Once we returned home, he suddenly grabbed hold of my wrist.
“Luna and I attended the same high school.”
“When we were teenagers, my parents buried themselves in their careers and rarely had time to look after
me.”
I got into a severe car accident during the summer break of my freshman year.”
“Mr. Cole was the one who contacted the police, called an ambulance, and rode with me all the way to the hospital.”
It had been pouring rain that night, and the driver who hit me fled the scene without stopping.”
“There wasn’t a single other person out on the roads. If her father hadn’t stopped to help, I would’ve died out
there in that thunderstorm.”
“His family struggled financially back then, yet he paid all my emergency medical fees out of his own pocket
without hesitation.”
He nearly drained every penny he had just to cover my hospital bills.”
“That whole ordeal was how Luna and I first grew close, and we dated for a period afterward.”
“We split up eventually because our personalities clashed too much.”
“I look out for Mr. Cole’s wellbeing not out of any attachment to Luna, but because he saved my life all those
years ago.”
If he’d shared this story with me sooner, I would’ve grasped every one of his reasons without hesitation.
But too much had already happened between us; we could never go back to how things once were.
I did not say a single word in reply.
“It’s far too late now. Let’s head to bed.”
Silas’s phone rang once more, the caller still Luna.
“Huizheng, my father’s condition is rapidly worsening.”
“He’s asking to see you one last time.”
Silas strode quickly for the front door, then froze in the entryway to glance back at me.
I spoke up quietly.
“Mr. Cole did save your life once, after all.”
He left the apartment right away.
Silas never came home that night.
