Let Her Wail Chapter 07
Robert finally panicked. He grabbed me and dragged me toward an empty corner.
His voice was frantic as he begged.
“Honey, please put in a good word with Prince Charles for me. Locking you in the car really wasn’t done on purpose!
“We’re husband and wife. That inheritance is marital property! You can’t just watch it slip away!”
I let out a cold laugh, amazed that this man still had the nerve to ask me for help.
“So now you remember I’m your wife? What about when you locked me in the car? Did you remember that fact then?
“Your mother and your sister put me through hell, and you just stood there and watched!”
Robert’s face flushed red. His eyes burned with anger.
“Celine! If you weren’t constantly competing with Mia, would I have treated you like that? This is all your own doing! Can’t you think about this family for once?”
Every time something came up, he blamed me for targeting his adopted sister. I could not hold back my anger any longer.
“Robert, Mia is the one who starts trouble, but you always say it’s me! I’ve told you this a hundred times, and every single time you take her side. You never listen to a word I say.
“Since you two are so devoted to each other, I’ll step aside and make room for her!”
The moment those words left my mouth, Robert’s face turned scarlet, as if he had been deeply insulted.
“Celine, have you lost your mind! Mia is my sister! What kind of filth are you spouting?”
I curled my lips slightly.
“So what if she’s your sister? There’s no blood relations between you. Why worry about what people say?
“Legally, the two of you could get a marriage license and it would be perfectly valid.”
Knowing her chances with the nobility were over, Mia could barely hide the smile in her eyes when she heard I was willing to step aside.
“Robert, since she wants to leave, just let her go. We can finally be together for real. No more outsiders getting in the way!”
He ignored Mia’s words and just shouted at me.
“Celine, can you stop assuming the worst about everyone? I asked you to say something nice to Prince Charles for the sake of our family!
“And what do you do? Turn around and accuse me of having something going on with Mia?”
At the end of the day, Robert was just afraid that people would find out about whatever was going on between him and Mia.
He wanted me to keep covering for them? In his dreams.
I looked at him coldly and spoke slowly, word by word.
“Whether what you feel for Mia is brotherly love or something else, I could care less. However, you and I are getting a divorce. I’ll send you the papers as soon as we’re back home. Be ready to sign them.”
Robert’s face crumbled. His voice shook with panic.
“Celine, even if you don’t care about our marriage, think about my father! Can you please say something nice to Prince Charles?
“My dad is still lying in the hospital! Without this inheritance, how long do you think he can hold on with just our salaries?
“I’m not being greedy. This money is to save my father’s life!”
If I had not died once in my previous life and seen through his true colors, those words might have actually/ softened my heart. However, in my past life, he had used our wedding anniversary photo shoot as an excuse for
revenge.
He sweet-talked me into happily climbing that snowy mountain, then turned around and buried me alive in the
snow.
This man still owed me for that, yet he wanted me to worry about his bedridden father? Dream on.
I let a sneer pull at my lips. “I’m about to divorce you. What does your father’s medical bills have to do with me? Did I make him sick?”
When Paige heard that, her face contorted with rage. She lunged at me like a madwoman, ready to strike.
Prince Charles heard the commotion and rushed over. He pulled me behind him and snapped at them.
“You people are out of control! You want to hit her now? Do you think I’m just here for decoration?”
Before he finished speaking, his guards had already called the police. The entire Baker family was taken to the station to give statements and deported that same day.
They were escorted out, while I stayed behind to attend the rest of the Duke’s funeral.
Before I left, Prince Charles came to find me. He told me that if I needed it, he could connect me with a lawyer
back home.
He would provide legal support to make sure I could divorce that scumbag smoothly.
I thanked him and said if I truly needed help, I would reach out.
The moment I returned home, I filed for divorce. Robert exploded on the spot.
“You cost me that inheritance. I haven’t even settled that score with you for that yet, but now you dare bring up divorce?
“Celine, you take one trip to see some Eravalen nobles and suddenly think you’re somebody? You really want to leave me that badly?
“Did some nobleman steal your heart? Don’t tell me it was Prince Charles?”
I looked at his flustered, humiliated face and let out a scoff.
“I’m a married foreign woman. Why would I have any delusions about Prince Charles? What kind of woman do you
think he hasn’t seen?”
Robert’s face stiffened, and then he started slinging accusations again.
“Then it must be some other nobleman. Maybe it’s Harold!”
I stared him in the eyes, my voice dripping with disdain.
“Chasing men at a funeral? Those are the kind of filthy thoughts only Mia would have! Do you think everyone is like you Bakers?
“I want a divorce. Right now, even looking at you makes me sick!”
Those words sent him into a rage. He shouted at the top of his lungs.
“Then why? Is it because you still suspect I have feelings for Mia? I’ve only ever seen her as a real sister!
“I care about you so much. Can you please stop making trouble?”
Watching him lie to himself, I decided to rip the mask off completely.
“You care about me? You just want me to keep bankrolling your family! You’re dragging your feet on the divorce because you borrowed a mountain of money for your father’s treatment and you want me to help pay it back!”
Paige heard that and immediately threw herself at me.
“You ungrateful wretch! You think you can just divorce him and walk away free? Not a chance!”
I swept my gaze over the Bakers and their greedy faces, then said calmly, “You think refusing will stop me? Once we’ve been separated for the required amount of time, we can officially advance the divorce.”
