"Why are you ring at me? Are you angry at me?" Tracie threw her head back to chuckle. "You should be angry at yourself. You married the son of your father’s enemy. I heard Ezekiel and their father discussing how to convince you to divorce him."


    Selene felt as if a bomb had just exploded above her head as she stared at Tracie in utter disbelief.


    <i>Divorce</i>


    "You are lying..." Selene managed to say. Since she’d identified Tracie as an enemy, she wasn’t going to believe any word that came out of thetter’s mouth.


    "First you call me an idiot, and now a liar. I just want to strangle you to death," Tracie threatened, but then huffed before smiling at Selene. "I wouldn’t lie to you, dear sister. I believe you love Xavier and wouldn’t want to divorce him right? Hmm...." Tracie hummed, her index finger on her chin as she calcted the situation. "If you don’t divorce Xavier, father might have no choice but to disown you. So sad—"


    "Tracie! What are you telling your sister?" Nora questioned Tracie as she walked up to them, rage evident in her expression as she red at Tracie.


    "I was only helping Ezekiel and Father by telling her the truth so that they could save their strength," Tracie defended as she tried to stifle a grin when she saw Selene’s confused expression.


    Nora darted her eyes toward Selene before her gazended on Tracie one more time.


    "No one asked you for any help, Tracie. Leave right now!" Noramanded, her tone stern which left no room for argument.


    Tracie clicked her tongue and red at Selene for half a second before she turned around and left while her heels clicked behind her until shepletely exited the painting room.


    Nora faced Selene, then ced a hand on Selene’s hand.


    "Don’t listen to whatever she tells you..."


    "Was she telling the truth?" Selene asked.


    Nora parted her lips to speak but no words coulde out.


    Selene’s shoulders dropped. Nora’sck of words only meant all that Tracie said was the truth.


    "I’m never going to divorce Xavier. It’s not going to happen and I don’t mind if father disowns me," she dered.


    The emotions she’d felt when she met them earlier had all disappeared, reced with anger.


    "You don’t have to divorce Xavier. I will try to convince your father but like I said, you don’t have to divorce Xavier. And your father won’t disown you," Nora tried to convince Selene.


    Nora wasn’t on the same page as Jeffrey. Thomas’ betrayal had been brutal and it pushed Jeffrey to make sure he didn’t share any kind of connection with the Wace family anymore.


    But she didn’t want their daughter to suffer what she had no idea about.


    "I hope he listens to you, but if he doesn’t...." She drawled, already aware of what her next steps would be.


    She was only meeting for the first time, and they were already expecting her to divorce Xavier. It was something that hadn’t crossed her mind since she fell in love with him.


    If it had been two years ago, then she was ready to divorce him, but currently, things have changed.


    "I have to leave now, Mother," Selene announced, grabbed her purse, and walked past the middle-aged woman.


    Selene reached the living room and found Jeffrey, Ezekiel, and Xavier together with Kael who seemed to not want to be bothered with whatever they could be talking about since his focus was on his phone.


    Xavier wore an ugly expression, and Selene guessed Jeffrey had already asked him to divorce her.


    "Xavier," she called, gaining all of their attention as their heads turned to look at her. "Let’s go home."


    "Wait, it’s only 8 pm. Spend some more time with us," Jeffrey requested.


    "There’s no need, father," Selene responded.


    From her tone, Jeffrey detected there must be something wrong. He nced at Nora who stood behind Selene, her face filled with worry.


    Xavier stood up from the couch, relieved they were finally leaving.


    **


    Inside an enormous room of furniture with the best interior designs, ady pulled out the drawer and brought out a picture.


    Tracie stared at the picture of Selene when she was younger, a small smile pulling on her lips as she caressed the picture.


    "You’re finally back, sis. I missed you so much," she whispered as tears streamed down her face.