All Chapters of He Sent Me Away for Three Years. Now My Divorce Has Him Panicking.: Chapter 281 - Chapter 290

After a long silence, James finally spoke again.“Some messages on my phone don’t add up. I want to know if you had anything to do with that.”This time, he was even more direct.Yvonne bent over the puzzle, keeping her eyes down.“Of course not. I know better than to go through your phone. I’ve never looked at your messages, much less done anything with them.”Then she glanced at Liam and smoothly shifted the blame onto him.“It was probably Liam. He must’ve tapped something by accident while he was playing a game.”She added quickly, “Don’t worry. I won’t let him use your phone again.”James didn’t say whether he believed her.He simply watched the two of them for another moment, his expression unreadable.“You two keep playing. I’m going upstairs.”Only after James left did Yvonne finally relax.She wiped the sweat from her forehead, then immediately dropped the act. She tossed the puzzle piece in her hand onto the floor and went back to where she had been sitting before

Leo frowned.“Fine. Then tell me. What kind of person is James?”Cold. Selfish. Arrogant. Ruthless.If Nina really started listing his flaws, she could probably go on all day.What she didn’t understand was why Leo was suddenly asking.“Why do you want to know?”Leo took her question as an attempt to defend James, and his irritation immediately grew.His voice rose before he realized it.“Do you know what he did after you walked away?”Nina looked at him.“He kicked his car door. Hard. More than once.”“Oh.”Nina nodded.She wasn’t particularly surprised.That sounded exactly like something James would do.But her lack of reaction only frustrated Leo more.“That’s it? ‘Oh’?”He stared ahead, visibly agitated.“Do you understand what that means? He has a temper. Today it’s a car door. What happens if one day it’s you?”Leo was genuinely worried.The thought of James ever turning that anger on Nina, especially when Leo might not be there to stop it, made his stomach t

“Maybe not,” Nina said with a small smile. “Something like that is probably better compared with the person you actually like.”More than anything, she just didn’t want to put herself in that position.Leo didn’t push her.Instead, he changed the subject.“Anything else you want to ask?”“Hm?”Nina looked at him, not quite understanding.Leo explained gently, “I mean, is there anything else you want to know about me? You can ask now.”He glanced at her.“You seem pretty curious about me.”Only then did Nina realize he had noticed.She had thought she’d hidden it well enough.“I thought you didn’t like people prying into your personal life.”“Depends on the person,” Leo said without hesitation. “If it’s you, I don’t mind.”The truth was, he didn’t just not mind.If anything, he wished he could tell her everything about himself without her even having to ask.But Nina suddenly didn’t want to ask anymore.There were some things about him she was curious about, but she did

At first, Jane had been thrilled that someone as powerful as Leo Taylor had offered to help her if she ever needed anything.But after he left, the more she thought about it, the stranger it seemed.She was Nina’s friend. Of course she was going to take care of her.So why had Leo thanked her like Nina was somehow his responsibility?Jane turned to Nina.“Why did that feel like you two are already a family and I’m the outsider?”Nina nearly stumbled at the question.She gave Jane a light shove, embarrassed.“Stop talking nonsense.”“Am I wrong?”Jane immediately started listing the evidence.“He drives you home this late, thanks me for taking care of you, and tells me I can call him if I ever need anything.”She gave Nina a pointed look.“If you told me you two were dating, I’d believe you without question.”“Enough.”Nina pulled her toward home.“Come on. If we don’t get back soon, your dinner’s going to be cold.”That finally got Jane moving, but her mind was clearly

When Nina said their marriage was beyond repair, James brought up example after example to argue that it wasn’t.He even went all the way back to the beginning of their relationship, pointing out that Nina had been the one to pursue him first and digging up things that had happened years ago.When Nina brought up the fact that he had been living with another woman, James insisted that Yvonne was his sister and even produced family records to back it up.When Nina said they had been separated for years, he came up with excuse after excuse, claiming the separation had never been something he agreed to and that circumstances had kept them apart.Throughout the hearing, James remained calm and composed.He challenged nearly every point Nina made and carried himself as though he were completely confident things would go his way.In the end, the judge didn’t issue a final ruling that day.The court took the matter under advisement and told both sides that they would be notified once t