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CHAPTERS 624 - 626
CHAPTER 624. DIVORCE
It was a beautiful time of the year. The weather was good, and the sun glowed warmly in the sky.
The following day was a State holiday. So before leaving home that morning, Edwin Carter had told Jane Ronan that he would not be working in the afternoon. He would be back home to have lunch.
When Edwin Carter left, Jane Ronan got busy preparing lunch.
She prepared two dishes that Edwin Carter liked to eat and two dishes that Janell liked to eat. Of course, she didn't forget to ask their new member, Andrew, what he liked to eat.
After preparing the dishes on the table, it was almost lunch time.
Looking at the time, Jane Ronan returned to her room and changed into an apricot-colored long skirt. The skirt was flowy and airy, so she tied a thin belt around her waist to draw the outline of her slender waist.
Although she was pregnant, she was still in her first trimester and her abdomen was not visible at all, so no one would be able to tell that she was pregnant.
Not only did she dress beautifully, Jane Ronan also planned to put on a light makeup for Edwin Carter to enjoy the best version of herself.
Jane Ronan sat down at her vanity table, looked down for a pencil in the drawer, and when she looked up, she saw another person in the mirror.
She looked at Edwin Carter in the mirror and smiled awkwardly: "Why did you come back so early?"
"What are you going to do?" Edwin Carter looked at Jane Ronan in the mirror and asked with a gentle gaze.
"I want to make myself look better by putting on some makeup." Jane Ronan told the truth because she wanted to leave her most beautiful self in Edwin Carter's heart.
Edwin Carter lowered his head and kissed her: "It would be better if you don't put on makeup."
Jane Ronan's skin was very good. Plus, she was pregnant now, her skin looked as smooth as an egg that had just been peeled off. Edwin Carter said that it would be better if she didn't put on makeup, it definitely came from the bottom of his heart.
"Do I really look good?" No matter what others thought of her looks, she didn't care. She just wanted Edwin Carter's confirmation.
"Do you think our Janell looks good?"
"Of course."
"You're the one who gave birth to Janell, so do you think you're beautiful?"
Actually, Janell's appearance combined Edwin Carter's and Jane Ronan's strengths. No matter how you looked at it, she was still beautiful.
Jane Ronan did not like to put on makeup anyway. Now that Edwin Carter was back, she did not want to put on any makeup in front of him.
She said, "Lunch is ready. Let's go have lunch."
Edwin Carter nodded and walked downstairs with Jane Ronan by his hand.
Jane Ronan let Linda and the other servants to take a time off. So she laid out the dishes and set the table by herself.
While Edwin Carter was eating, she looked at him as if she wanted to remember his appearance in her heart. No matter how much time passed, she couldn't forget about him.
After lunch, Jane Ronan asked Andrew to take Janell to play. She asked Edwin Carter to stay behind and said, "Edwin Carter, I have something to tell you."
"It just so happens that I have something to say to you." Edwin Carter seemed to be in a good mood today. He had a faint smile on his face ever since he came home.
"I'll go first." Jane Ronan took a deep breath and slowly said word by word, "Edwin Carter, I'm tired. I'm really tired."
Edwin Carter's expression froze and he raised his eyebrows: "You …What do you mean?"
Jane Ronan said, "Edwin Carter, we got married on a blind date. During the blind date, you told me that you don't believe in love. I'm not wrong, right?"
Edwin Carter looked at Jane Ronan silently.
Jane Ronan added, "You don't believe in love, and I don't believe in love, so we got married and lived together in what others think is a normal life."
Edwin Carter narrowed his eyes and looked at Jane Ronan. He did not interrupt her, but waited for her to finish and see what she wanted to say.
Jane Ronan continued, "So our marriage was all for show. There is no love in this marriage."
The veins on Edwin Carter's forehead twitched, but he asked plainly: "What do you really want to say?"
"I want to say, I'm really tired. This is not the marriage I want. I don't want to pretend that I'm living a happy life."
"Edwin Carter, I have had enough. I have had enough of marriage without love. I want to pursue the love that I want, the happiness that I want, the marriage that I want. You can't give me any of this, so let's — divorce. "
The word "divorce" was short and simple, but it used up all the strength and courage in Jane Ronan to say it.
From the time she agreed to marry Edwin Carter to the later years, she had never thought that there would be a day where the word "divorce" would come out of her mouth.
"Divorce?" Edwin Carter repeated the word softly. His tone sounded light, as if he wasn't affected by her words, but his tense body betrayed him.
"Yes." Jane Ronan nodded. It seemed simple, but he didn't know how much effort she had expended on this.
"Have you decided?" Edwin Carter's tone remained calm, as if he was asking Jane Ronan if the weather was good today.
"Yes." Jane Ronan nodded.
"Alright." he said.
Alright?
Edwin Carter agreed.
Jane Ronan didn't expect Edwin Carter to agree so readily. From his tone, it seemed that he had long been hoping for her to come up with this idea.
Jane Ronan quietly clenched her fists. After a fierce mental exercise, she said, "I won't take your property."
Her gaze landed on Janell who was playing happily with Mia in the distance, "Janell belongs to you too, I won't fight over her. I only want the child in my womb. "
Edwin Carter looked at her with a slight smile on his face. His sexy lips parted slightly, but only said a simple and clear word: "Ok."
"Since both of us have agreed, we'll go to the Civil Affairs Bureau tomorrow morning to get the witness." Every word she said was like tearing off a piece of flesh from her own body, but no matter how painful it was, she had to say it. There is no simple way.
She tried to find a other way for herself, but she couldn't find it, so she had to follow the route that had been designed for her.
"Alright." Edwin Carter looked at her with his thin lips slightly raised. His smile was gentle and refined. It was the most attractive smile Jane Ronan had ever seen on Edwin Carter's face.
"Then I …"
"Miss Ronan, I'll see you tomorrow then."
Miss Ronan!
He just called her Miss Ronan!
She had just filed for divorce, and he had already called her Miss Ronan, even though the divorce was still pending.
How impatient had he been to see her go?
She clearly told him about the divorce, but Jane Ronan's heart still hurt when she saw Edwin Carter agree so readily without even asking her why.
Because she clearly knew that once she let go of Edwin Carter's hand, he would no longer belong to her again.
He would belong to another woman, and that woman would no longer be called Jane Ronan.
CHAPTER 625 WHO ARE YOU TO ME?
Beside losing Edwin, Janell wouldn't belong to her anymore as well.
After she leaves, Janell will eventually forget about her as her mother, and the little girl would call another woman — Mom.
Edwin Carter stood up, "Miss Ronan, do you still have anything else to say?"
"I …" Jane Ronan had a lot of things she wanted to say, but she didn't know what to say.
Edwin Carter smiled and said, "Miss Ronan, I still have things to do, excuse me."
He spoke politely and courteously, just like how Jane Ronan had seen him treat so many strangers before.
With that, he turned around and walked away without even looking at her, as if he really wasn't the Edwin Carter who had once treated her with extreme gentleness.
Jane Ronan couldn't help reaching out her hand to grab him, but she was forced to withdraw her hand just as it was about to reach out.
She opened her mouth. "Ed … Edwin …"
Edwin Carter stopped walking, but he did not turn around to look at her. He asked coldly: "Is there anything else?"
His back was as proud and aloof as a cold ice sculpture. He didn't even look back at her. Jane Ronan only felt that her burning heart was bleeding bright in pain.
She took a deep breath and tried to behave, "Mr. Carter, I hope you can find the woman you love soon."
It wad the same "Mr. Carter" that she called out before but it was no longer as intimate as before. Like other strangers, it was just a normal name.
Edwin Carter clenched his hands tightly and his eyes turned serious. However, when he turned around and looked at her, there was only a hint of a cold smile on his angry face.
He smiled and asked, "Miss Ronan, who are you to me?"
"I …" Jane Ronan was momentarily at a loss for words.
Right, who was she to him?
Currently, she was still his wife, but very quickly, she no longer had anything to do with him.
As long as the formalities were done tomorrow, she and he would be two strangers who had nothing to do with each other.
If they were to meet again, they might greet each other. Or they might just act like they didn't see each other.
"Miss Ronan, you don't have to worry about me. Go for the marriage you want, go for the happiness you want." After throwing that sentence, Edwin Carter turned around and left.
He was tall and straight, and his steps were graceful and elegant, as if he were a walking piece of art.
However, what Jane Ronan couldn't see was that the moment he turned around, the smile on his face vanished. He looked so down and distressed that it was frightening.
Jane Ronan watched helplessly as he go upstairs and disappeared before her eyes. The tears that she had suppressed for a long time gushed out like a flood from a broken dam, unstoppable.
Edwin Carter!
Her Edwin Carter would never belong to her again. She would never be able to lie on his chest and listen to his heartbeat.
She would never have a chance to hear him tell her in his low, magnetic, sexy voice, "Jane Ronan, don't be afraid, I'm here!"
She would never have another chance …
"Mom, why are you crying? Are you very sad? " Unknowingly, Janell had arrived beside Jane Ronan. She looked up at her mother with blinking, watery eyes.
"Mom didn't cry. Mom only had sand in her eyes." Jane Ronan wiped her tears as she knelt down and gently hugged Janell.
"Mother, I don't want you to feel sad." Janell raised her small hand to wipe her mother's tears. Her eyes were also red.
Because her mother was sad, it made her very sad too, and would want to cry with her mother.
"Darling, Mom really isn't sad, it's just …" However, she wouldn't be able to look at her darling every day from now on.
She really wanted to leave with Janell, but she knew that Edwin Carter was the one who raised Janell. How could she be so cruel as to take Janell away?
"Mom!" Janell held Jane Ronan's hand and pouted. "Mom don't cry, I'll bring you to Dad."
In Janell's heart, father is an omnipotent superhero, father can certainly help mother.
"Janell, dad has work to do. Let's not disturb him." Jane Ronan picked Janell up and carried her upstairs to Janell's pink room.
She placed Janell on the dressing table and sat her down. "Janell. Can mother give you a beautiful little braid?"
"Yes." Janell nodded. She smiled sweetly as she knew that her mother wanted to tie her beautiful hair.
"Janell you are Mommy's darling, whether Mommy is by your side or not, Mommy loves you. In the future, you have to listen to dad. When you grow up, you have to be filial to dad, okay? " Jane Ronan reminded Janell as she combed her hair.
"Why, wouldn't mommy be with me?" Janell didn't understand. Could it be that her mother was going to fly away again? Would she have to wait until she grew up before she could see her mother?
Previously, people always said that she was a child without a mother. When her mother finally returned to her side, she didn't want her mother to fly away again.
"Because …" Jane Ronan choked with sobs. It was a long time before she could find her voice again. "Because Mom has something important to do."
Janell asked with some distress, "Is the important matter even more important than me?"
Jane Ronan: "…"
Nothing was more important than her baby, but she didn't know how to tell her baby.
Jane Ronan took in a breath of cold air and said, "Janell, do you think the braids that mother gave you look good?"
"Very pretty."
"Then in the future, of course, if you want to tie such a beautiful braid, let your nanny help you." These few days, Jane Ronan had been explaining a lot of things to Janell's nanny.
From Janell's daily life, whenever she needed something, even if the other person did it frequently, Jane Ronan would repeat the instructions again and again, afraid that Janell would get bullied when she wasn't around.
" I want my mommy to do my braids. My mommy's braid is the most beautiful." In Janell's heart, whatever her mother did for her was the best.
The clothes her mother made for her looked the best on her body, and the fragrance her mother gave her was also the most fragrant. Of course, the braids her mother tied for her were also the most beautiful.
"Janell …" Jane Ronan was so heartbroken that she hugged Janell into her arms. She also wanted to give Janell a braid all of her life.
She wanted to stay by Janell's side and watch her slowly grow from a little girl to a beautiful woman.
She wanted to personally prepare the dowry for Janell and personally hand her over to the man who could take care of Janell for the rest of her life.
She was thinking too much, but …
Jane Ronan shook her head. She couldn't keep thinking about it anymore. If she kept thinking about it, she would break down.
CHAPTER 626 I WILL LEAVE YOUR ROOM TONIGHT
"Mom?" Janell raised her head from Jane Ronan's embrace. " Let's find daddy."
She always felt that her mother was very strange today, but she wasn't sure why. She knew that the person who could help them was still her father.
"Daddy's busy!" Jane Ronan didn't have the courage to face Edwin Carter, nor did she know how to face Edwin Carter. She was afraid of Edwin Carter's cold face.
The Edwin Carter of today was colder than any time she had ever seen before. It was as if he had built a wall around him and no one could get close to him.
Jane Ronan continued, "Can you play with Brother Andrew and Mia?"
Janell shook her head. "No, I want to stay with mommy."
She had to keep an eye on her mother. She had to hold her tightly, and this time, she couldn't let her mother fly away again.
"Alright, then let's go take a nap." Jane Ronan hugged Janell and kissed her cute little face.
No matter how sensible Janell was, she was still a child after all. Lying beside her mother, she soon fell asleep.
Janell fell asleep, but Jane Ronan didn't feel sleepy at all. She got up again and cleaned up Janell's room herself, hung up Janell's clothes in her closet, and put up some notes to tell the nanny how to dress Janell.
And every pair of Janell's shoes, which Jane Ronan had cleaned and placed neatly in the shoe closet.
After doing all this, Jane Ronan talked to Linda and Janell's nanny to explain the things that Janell needed to pay attention to and her routine.
After giving out her orders, she handed over a small notebook to Linda and reminded her, "Linda, these are Edwin Carter's usual taboos. You must be careful of his allergic food. You definitely mustn't let him touch it."
Because she didn't know that Edwin Carter was allergic to onions before, she did it once, and Edwin Carter didn't say anything about it.
Even though the servants in the house knew all about it, Jane Ronan was still worried about who would be careless.
"Young madam, is there anything wrong?" Thinking about Jane Ronan's behavior these past few days, Linda felt that it was a little strange. However, it wasn't good for them to ask about their master.
"Edwin Carter doesn't like to talk. So please just bear with him in the future." She knew that Edwin had only been chatty in front of her, but he was always so aloof in front of others that nobody dared to get close to him.
"Young Madam, don't scare us." Jane Ronan's words made Linda feel that she was trying to explain the future to them.
"Mm, then you guys go on ahead. Please prepare dinner. Just prepare Edwin Carter's, Andrew's and Janell's. I'm not hungry. " Jane Ronan had a decent and gentle smile on her face, without a single flaw.
After giving out the instructions, she went back upstairs. After just taking a few steps, she felt that her steps were a bit lacking. One of her stomps landed on empty air, causing her to stagger and almost fall to the ground.
She immediately regained her composure and shook her head to clear her mind. At such a critical time like this, she could not afford to get into an accident.
She had to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau tomorrow to handle the formalities. Before that, she definitely couldn't allow anything to happen to her. She had to hold on for one more day until she completely disappeared from Edwin Carter's side.
She would never see him again, and he would probably never want to see her again. After all, she had betrayed their marriage.
Today she had asked him to divorce her, and he had told her that there was no such thing as love in the world.
In fact, he had told her before not to break up no matter what happened.
She had always remembered these words in her heart, but she had actually mentioned them so easily.
Jane Ronan took a deep breath and helped herself up the stairs step by step. Every step she took, she would pause because she knew this could be one of the last times she could step on these stairs.
This place was filled with the scent of the two people she cared the most. She greedily wanted to take in all of it.
Upstairs, Jane Ronan walked past Edwin Carter's study room and couldn't help but slow down and took a look at the room.
The study room's door was tightly shut. No one knew what Edwin Carter was busy with.
Was he busy getting a divorce settlement prepared, or was he busy at work?
Jane Ronan did not dare to think too much. Afraid that she would lose control of herself, and open the door.
She pursed her lips and moved on to their room, where nothing had changed.
In a trance, Jane Ronan seemed to be able to see Edwin Carter sitting on the sofa that he usually sat on, reading a newspaper.
When he heard her, he looked up and pushed his glasses up on the bridge of his nose. He looked at her and smiled.
Jane Ronan couldn't help but walk towards him. However, just as she took a step forward, Edwin Carter had already disappeared.
Jane Ronan looked closely and saw that the sofa was completely empty. Edwin Carter was nowhere to be seen.
Jane Ronan laughed self-deprecatingly. Tears welled up in her eyes.
She hadn't left him yet, but she looked as if she was about to die. If she had left him, would she still be able to live?
"Buzz, buzz ~ ~ ~"
Just as she was lost in her thoughts, the phone in her pocket buzzed again.
Jane Ronan picked up her cell phone and answered.
The person on the other side of the phone asked, "Miss Ronan, how is the matter?"
Jane Ronan chuckled and said, "We will be going through the divorce procedures tomorrow. Are you satisfied?"
She cut off the phone, not wanting to hear the sickening sound.
However, Jane Ronan never expected that after hanging up the phone, she turned around and saw Edwin Carter's tall figure not far behind her.
He was judging her through his golden-framed glasses as if she was a stranger.
Jane Ronan was so scared that her hands trembled. Her phone fell to the ground. Fortunately, the floor was covered with a thick carpet, so her phone didn't break.
Jane Ronan didn't know if Edwin Carter had heard her talking on the phone or not, but she stuttered in nervousness. "You, why did you …"
Edwin Carter looked away, took a book in the room and left the room. Without saying a word, he left Jane Ronan's side.
He thought she was transparent.
Jane Ronan felt a bit sad, but at the same time, she also let out a sigh of relief. Luckily, he didn't hear anything.
"I'll leave your room tonight."
Edwin Carter said without turning his head back.
Jane Ronan felt so sad that she wanted to laugh.
So he really couldn't wait to be separated from her.
This night, the Orchard Villa was shrouded in haze. The dining room that was usually filled with cheers and laughter was extremely quiet today.
Janell and Andrew Carter were the only ones in the dining room, both Edwin Carter and Jane Ronan were not.
Jane Ronan had been busy all this time, so she went upstairs during dinner time. She intentionally avoided Edwin Carter and was speechless because she didn't want to meet him.
As of Edwin Carter, he was in the study room all day long. No one knew whether he was busy or doing something else.
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