I Exit to Her Serenade to Him

The next time I saw Serena was at a dinner organized by friends.Casper sat beside her. When he saw me, he flashed me a provocative smile. "Long time no see, Myles."The moment Serena noticed me, she looked away, unusually silent.Casper, however, persisted. "If you're still not over her, just say so. Why are you roping all these people in to help you patch things up with Serena? That's not a great look, Myles."Benedict Clarke, my friend, immediately flew into a rage and grabbed Casper by the collar."Casper, this isn't your place to speak!" he snapped. "Serena, we organized this dinner for a reason. Do you really not get what this is about? You brought him here on purpose, just to rub it in everyone's faces, didn't you?"Casper looked frightened and turned to Serena with a pitiful expression. "This is my fault. I shouldn't have come. If Myles is upset, he can take it out on me. Please don't get mad at Serena because of this…"His little act instantly set Benedict off. Just as

After Serena realized I had blocked her, she assumed it was just another round of me playing hard to get."Myles has hit his limit. Without me, he doesn't have much of a life left. Just wait until the wedding. He'll show up on his own."The night before the wedding, she still acted relaxed in front of her friends.Only she knew how unsettled she felt each time she opened her messages and saw that harsh red exclamation mark next to my name.No matter how bad our fights had been in the past, I had never cut contact like this.Had she gone too far this time? But the divorce had been my decision."Serena," someone said. "Myles couldn't be contacted for a while now. Aren't you worried something might've happened?"She snapped out of her thoughts and gave a short, humorless laugh. "He knows that trick doesn't work on me anymore, so now he's trying something else. Don't worry. Tomorrow, he won't be able to stay away."As long as I was willing to back down first, she believed she cou

"Honey? Honey?"When Serena woke again, the first thing she heard was my voice calling her over and over again. She was certain that everything about my death had just been an absurd dream.She made up her mind then and there to settle down and build a future with me. It wouldn't matter whether I had been involved with Yvette or anyone else at all.She only wanted me, not her male assistant or the male celebrities.What she wanted was my future.But when Serena opened her eyes, the only face she saw was Casper's. His eyes held a cunning gleam, nothing like my foolish sincerity.In the past, she had been running nonstop between cities to secure clients, collapsing the moment she returned. When she woke up, I was by her side, my eyes bloodshot."Serena, do you even realize your life is tied to mine?" I'd said. "Without my permission, you don't get to put yourself in danger. Don't you dare push yourself like that again!"She didn't even have the strength to lift her hand, only man

"You're the one who killed Myles!" Casper coughed violently, calming himself down. Then, he looked up at Serena and shouted, his voice hoarse."Everything I did was because you told me to! You told me to act like we were in love so Myles would turn away from you and die in pain!"You told me to embarrass him so he'd be humiliated in public again and again! You were the one who insisted on marrying me so he'd give up completely, so much so that he didn't even want to see you before he died!"He didn't stop there because no one knew what an ungrateful person Serena was better than he did."Everyone knows you only got to where you are now because of Myles. Who do you think you're fooling? You couldn't stand people saying it, so you burned through every last bit of what you and he had."Benedict told you to show sincerity, and you come down here to punish me instead. Serena Jacobs, you deserve to end up alone!"Serena stood there, eyes unfocused, as she watched him level his accusa