Sweet Divorce novel Chapter 137

With eyes fixed on Grandpa Jim who passed away so suddenly, Rita just went blank and felt heartbroken.

Why?!

She remembered that Grandpa Jim was gone at the end of this month in the last incarnation. Why did it happen earlier?

She hadn’t accompanied him for a long time.

“Grandpa! Grandpa…”

She was about to step forward but fell on the floor for she was in a disturbed state of mind.

Michael was stunned and ready to help the weeping girl stand up.

But at this moment, Liam acted before him more quickly, holding the girl in his arms.

Looking at his beloved girl leaning on another man’s shoulder, Michael tried his best to control and calm himself.

What he could do was only to stand still, looking at her with love quietly.

“Rita?” Holding her in arms, Liam asked worriedly.

She stopped trembling, looking at the man’s face above her head with tears, and said, “He left us.”

Now she had no one to support her.

Now she could not do everything she wanted, because the one who always stood by her side was gone.

“But I am here.” He decided to protect her with his life. But Rita was so sorrowful that she neither understood what he meant nor thought about the meaning.

Later she left the room with Mrs. Davis’s help and all the arrangements about the funeral were handled by Liam.

The funeral was held two days later. At that day, it rained in this city where it had been sunny for days.

After the funeral, Liam was busy sending the guests and Rita was left alone with an umbrella standing in front of the gravestone.

The graveyard of depression was so silent that the low sound of the rain beating on the umbrella could be heard clearly.

The time was passing and a pair of black leather shoes appeared in her blurred vision.

A warm coat covered her. “Remember that you are always Grandpa Jim’s favorite child. I believe that he is unwilling to see you sorrow like this in heaven.”

The girl was speechless, standing in silence but Liam noticed that she jerked when he said, Grandpa Jim.

Although she didn’t cry loudly, he knew exactly that she burst into tears.

He held her shoulders to let her lean on his arms.

But when he touched her gently, she was amazed like a little surprised cub and stepped to the left to keep some distance from him. “Thank you.” Rita took off the coat and handed it back to him.

But the man refused to take it and ordered dissatisfiedly, “It’s too cold in the rain. Put it on.”

“I am not so weak.” She didn’t want to obey him in order to avoid a possible misunderstanding.

Since Grandpa Jim passed away, it’s time for her to stay away from Liam forever.

Actually, she should be determined to part from him completely.

She gave the coat back to him forcefully and walked down the hill without hesitation.

Looking at her back, Liam understood her meaning, frowning. His eyes were full of love and bitterness.

Down the hill, Rita got in her mother’s car instead of Liam’s.

“Mom, let’s go.”

“Don’t you wait for Liam?” Looking at her daughter leaning on her shoulder, Zoe was puzzled.

“He… he said that he needed to deal with something and asked us to return to the hospital to take care of my father and grandmother first.”

She’s afraid that her mother whose husband had a car accident was too fragile now to hear the news that she got divorced with Liam, so she lied to her.

She considered that she should find a good chance to reveal the truth after her father recovered.

“Hey. You are so cruel to him. Grandpa Jim is his last family member and he must be much sadder than you although he has never talked about it. And you now even leave him alone and come back with me?” Unexpectedly, her mother was furious after hearing what she said, and gave the umbrella back to her toughly. “We don’t need you to be in the hospital. You should spend more time with him.”

“But, mom! I…”

“Now get off the car.”

She was interrupted by her mother who pushed her out of the car.

The road was drenched and slippery with the rain and she fell backward until her head hit a man’s chest.

Smelling the plain fragrance, she found her waist held by the man’s warm hand.

“Liam, don’t worry about her father and grandmother. These days, Rita will accompany you. If we need you, we will give you a ring.”

Looking at the couple, Zoe drove away quite fast after her speech.

Left behind, Rita smiled bitterly, complaining inwardly.

As her daughter, she was treated heartlessly by her mother, she thought.

After Zoe’s car disappeared, she looked back at him, “I…”

“It’s too cold. Let’s go back to the car first.”

Before she said something, she was forced to turn around and to walk with him towards the car.

But she managed to stopped, refusing, “No, I can go back to the dormitory in a taxi.”

“The dormitory?”

“Grandpa left and there’s no reason for us to act like a couple. So I should live in the university from today since we are embarrassed in the same house.”

After a few seconds, they spoke at the same time.

“You…” want to escape from me?

“Liam…”

They looked at each other for a second and swallowed the words they were going to say.

Staring at her shoes, she kept thinking about her mother’s words.

“Grandpa Jim is his last family member and he must be much sadder than you although he has never talked about it.”

Although the Wilson family was a big and loaded family and Liam lived a wealthy life since he was born, his parents died when he was three years old. He was brought up by Grandpa Jim.

Grandpa Jim was his last family member.

But he died as well now, which must be a tragedy to him who just pretended to be calm.

So it’s cruel of her if she now proposed to get the divorce certificate with him.

She had better wait for at least two days.

Thinking of these, she said something else to him, “You should go back.”

“There’s no car here.”

He answered. Rita looked at his showy car. No car?

Her confusion was noticed by him who added, “There’s no taxi, I mean.”

Hearing this, Rita understood.

She looked at the place where several taxis always parked and found no car there since here’s the graveyard and it’s rainy.

When she was absent-minded, her shoulders were covered by his coat again, “Get in my car.”

Before she replied, he held her in arms and pushed her back to his car.