Divorce, Ending, And New Beginning

Gwen looked at Seth with disbelief. Impatience and anger were evident in her eyes, but she calmly walked toward the bed.

The ends of the huge blanket fell freely on the floor. Gwen tightly held the fabric on her chest, dragging its heaviness with her.

She was almost near him when she almost tripped on the floor. She glared at Seth, blaming him for her misery as she gathered the blanket from the floor with one hand.

Seth bit his lip as he watched Gwen struggle. He placed his right hand behind his head while the straps of the white bra clung to his left fingers. His blond hair was disheveled, and his gray eyes seemed brighter because of the sunlight.

Obviously, he was having fun watching the woman in front of him.

Step by step, Gwen slowly walked toward him. As soon as she reached him, she leaned her body and was about to snatch her underwear from his hand when Seth suddenly stretched his arm away from her.

Gwen glared at Seth. Unbothered by the woman’s death glares, Seth only looked at her with amusement and mockery.

Realizing that he wouldn’t give her the bra, Gwen stood straight. They both stared at each other’s eyes until a smirk formed on Gwen’s lips.

“I suddenly remembered what you told me that rainy night. Didn’t you say that you wouldn’t sleep with me since Hayes used me already? I guess they were just all lies, then,” she muttered.

She looked at him straight and added, “Do you like me—”

Before Gwen could finish her question, her white underwear hit her face. Gwen groaned and caught the bra with her hands.

“Seth, what the heck?” she screamed.

“I don’t know if you’re just really narcissistic or plain stupid!” Seth shook his head and scowled at her.

“Hayes spent three years with you and still didn’t like you in the end. Why would you think that I like you? My taste in women wouldn’t be worse than Hayes!”

Gwen pursed her lips and looked away.

“Go home,” Seth coldly muttered.

Of course, Gwen was certain that Seth wouldn’t be interested in her.

Her lips twisted upon remembering what he said earlier. Seth and Hayes had quite the same preferences when it came to women. In fact, they both liked the type of Lacey Brooks.

‘Good luck to you two, then. There’s only one Lacey Brooks in the world,’ she bitterly thought.

Gwen picked up all her clothes and marched to the bathroom. She hurriedly showered, put on her clothes, and left the room.

She had one problem, though. When she and Callie went to Glory City last night, she didn’t bring a purse or even her phone. She didn’t even have any money with her now. Her apartment was quite far from the hotel, so it would be impossible to walk back.

So, she borrowed a phone from the hotel receptionist and called her friend.

“Callie.”

“Gwen?” Callie murmured on the other line. “I was looking for you last night! Where did you go?”

Gwen puckered her lips, feeling guilty and sorry for her friend. “I’ll explain later. Please pick me up. I don’t have any money with me.”

Callie huffed. “Fine! But promise me that you’ll tell me everything later, okay?”

Gwen smiled. After a few more minutes of scolding her, Callie asked her where she was and ended the call.

“Thank you.” Gwen smiled at the receptionist and handed the phone.

She turned around, ready to walk out of the building when her gaze landed on a familiar figure.

Gwen and Hayes looked at each other’s eyes at the same time. Hayes glanced at her body once before looking at her face again.

Gwen almost took a step back. For some reason, she felt as if she had been caught committing a crime.

Hayes, on the other hand, looked at her with indifference. Then, he removed his gaze from her and strode toward the elevator with a group of people in corporate attire behind him.

Gwen slumped her shoulders and sighed as soon as he was out of sight.

She walked to the hotel’s lobby and sat on the empty sofa. She closed her eyes and released a few deep breaths, filling her lungs with air she seemed to have lost earlier.

Thirty minutes later, Callie arrived.

Callie’s original plan was to scold Gwen some more, but all of it vanished when she saw her friend’s pale face. Her eyes were closed, and her back leaned against the sofa.

“Gwen, are you okay?” she asked worriedly and touched her forehead. “You don’t have a fever, but you look pale. Do you feel sick?”

Gwen opened her eyes and shook her head. “I’m okay. I haven’t eaten anything yet, so maybe it’s just hunger.”

“Come on, let’s go eat something first!” Callie replied.

Gwen only nodded her head before standing up.

They were both busy eating their food when Callie suddenly brought up the topic again. “My friend told me that they saw you with a cute guy at the club last night,” she said in a malicious tone.

She slowly scanned her friend’s face up to her neck as if looking for something.

Gwen rolled her eyes and stopped Callie.

After a few moments of silence, Gwen spoke. “His name is Seth Parker.”

Gwen drank her orange juice while Callie’s lips parted in shock.

“What?” Callie shouted, making the other people glance at them.

“Yup. I slept with Seth Parker last night.”

Callie’s brows fused in confusion. Thoughts ran wildly in her mind, but she only stared at her friend.