Hunting for His EX-Wife

At this moment, Leah standing behind Rose didn’t want to say anything more. Her father was really hopeless. She had wanted to mediate between her father and mother, hoping they could reconcile and make peace. But now it seemed like her father’s pursuit of his wife was a long way off.

Rose heard him promise Madeleine and took a deep breath, looking coldly at the man in front of her. “You go if you want to go. I’m not going.”

“That young man.”

Elliot uttered three words lightly, feeling much better than before despite his initial displeasure.

Rose was slightly stunned but regained her composure quickly. She looked at the man in front of her with gritted teeth as she spat out four words. “How despicable you are!”

She didn’t want to return to the Russell’s or see those disgusting people again. But for Valentin’s sake, she had no choice but to go back there.NôvelDrama.Org holds this content.

The hand she had placed by her side kept tightening as she thought about facing the person she hated most – Conner Russell.

…

In the end, Rose went with Elliot to the Russell Residence without bringing Leah along. She didn’t want Leah involved in such a disgusting place.

An hour later, Elliot’s car stopped outside the Russell Residence.

As soon as Rose got out of the car, Madeleine greeted her with a smile on her face, “Rose! You’re back! I thought you would be mad at me and not come.”

Rose smiled at Madeleine while saying calmly, “I never wanted to come back here.”

If it weren’t for Elliot threatening her with Valentin’s safety, she wouldn’t have set foot inside the Russell Residence again!

The next second Shiloh Fox – Rose’s stepmother who is also Madeleine’s biological mother – walked out from inside the hall.

“Rose! You’re back! Come on in; we’ve been waiting for you,” said Shiloh.

Elliot’s eyes darkened as he glanced sideways at Rose who looked tense. He opened his lips slightly and spoke coldly, “Let’s go.”

Taking a deep breath, Rose walked into the hall with an impassive expression on her face.

Soon enough, everyone sat down around the dining table where Conner spoke first pretending concern towards his daughter. “Rose, are you okay? You don’t know how worried I am knowing something might have happened to you.”

With disdainful eyes fixed upon Conner when he spoke these words, she didn’t see any sadness in Conner’s face.

She remained silent, but Conner had no intention of giving up on small talk. He continued, “You must have had a hard time living abroad for the past five years!”

After saying this, Conner pretended to pick up a dish for Rose and said, “But if you come back to live here, you and your child won’t have such a hard time.”

Rose looked down at the dish her father picked out for her. She smiled faintly with an indifferent expression and said, “I don’t eat cauliflower.”

Conner heard this and his face darkened slightly. However, he still forced a smile to smooth things over. “If you don’t eat cauliflower then you can drink some soup instead.”

He gave Shiloh a look that signaled her to get up and serve Rose soup.

Rose watched this scene before her eyes with amusement. This man who claimed to be her father once turned a blind eye towards the abuse from her stepmother and stepsisters towards herself and her brother. Now that she has returned after disappearing for five years, he is pretending to care about her again but doesn’t even know what she likes or dislikes when it comes to food.

Rose pursed her lips without saying anything while Shiloh wiped away tears that weren’t there after serving Rose’s soup. Suddenly she spoke up, “If Rachel were here, she would love drinking soup.”

“Unfortunately,” Shiloh continued, “she can never drink it again.”

As soon as Elliot heard these words, his face darkened visibly making Shiloh immediately change course, “It was Rachel’s own fault; she made mistakes which led to such consequences.”

Throughout the entire performance of the Russell family before her, Rose remained coldly watching without saying another word.

Madeleine noticed Rose’s silence, so she furrowed her brows, approached her slowly and held a tea cup in hand.

“Rose,” Madeleine began, “I was wrong about everything that happened in the past; today I am here officially apologizing, hoping that you can forgive me.”

“This cup of tea is my apology.”

After speaking, Madeleine lowered her head slightly, looking guilty.

Rose sat motionless staring straight ahead and ignoring Madeleine’s fake act entirely.

The reason why she came here today was solely because she was threatened by Elliot.

It was disgusting enough to watch these people act, there was no way she was going to cooperate with them.

At this moment, Elliot sitting next to them suddenly spoke a sentence that surprised everyone.

“She doesn’t drink green tea.”

Madeleine froze, her face turning red in embarrassment.

She didn’t expect Elliot, who had been silent all along, to suddenly speak up for Rose, this bitch.

Rose, sitting next to Elliot, was somewhat stunned.

Not drinking green tea had been her habit for several years because she used to have a weak digestive system and would experience stomach pain whenever she drank green tea.

‘I can’t believe it’s been so long, but Elliot still remembers.’

…

During this lunch, Rose didn’t even touch her cutlery, but Madeleine and her family enjoyed the meal very much.

After dinner, Rose found an excuse to return to the room at the Russell Residence where she used to live.

She didn’t want to be fake with the people from the Russell family, but she couldn’t leave either. She had to find a secluded place to stay.

This room had long been turned into a storeroom by Shiloh and her daughter, with all sorts of things piled up inside in a disorderly manner.

For some reason, Rose felt that only here could she catch her breath for a moment.

She only stayed alone for a moment before an unexpected guest arrived in the room.

“Do you feel out of place in this home, so you hide here to lick your wounds?”

Rose furrowed her eyebrows and looked coldly at the woman who walked into the room, pursing her lips without answering.

Madeleine walked into the room with her chin held high, pretending to be elegant and proud.

After taking a glance around the dirty and messy room, she covered her nose with disgust.

“This house was a storage room before you moved out, but after you left, there were even more things piled up.”

After saying these words, the woman took a step forward and stopped in front of Rose, laughing mockingly.

“Rose, there is no place for you in this home. Your room is mine, and so is your man…”