Todos os capítulos de The Past Has Melted: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 10

Elara glanced at the figure she hadn't seen for nearly half a month before answering flatly, “I’m cleaning. The house is a mess.”Orion did not notice the change in her demeanor.He cast a look across the empty living room before asking curtly, “Where are Cliff and Emilia?”As soon as he asked the question, the front door was thrown open with a bang. Then, two tiny figures rushed in like a gust of wind, Cyrene close behind.Emilia’s eyes were puffy and red. Her voice was shaking as she went up to Elara with her tiny fist clenched. “Mommy, you’re the worst! You just let us die!”Cliff wore the same frown and cried out exasperatedly, “We would’ve died if it wasn’t for Aunt Cyrene coming to save us! You don't deserve to be our Mommy if you don’t even care about us!”Orion's face darkened instantly. Even the air around him seemed to drop several degrees.He cast an accusatory look at Elara before pressing her with questions. “What happened? What is this about?”“Orion, please don’t

When Elara heard the child she raised herself say such vicious things about her, it felt as though a dagger had been plunged into her heart. The pain was unbearable.Her eyes were rimmed with red, and her voice trembled when she spoke, “Fine, go to Aunt Cyrene. She’ll love you more than I do!”“Elara!” Orion was incensed by how Elara was acting. “How could you be saying such things when Emilia was nearly killed by you? Did you know how much she had to suffer during her asthma attack?”Then, he turned to the butler who was standing by the door. “Get me some cotton wool!”By the time Elara realized what Orion was trying to do, she had already been pinned to the ground by several guards.“Stuff this cotton wool into her mouth. Let her have a taste of what it’s like to suffocate.”“Orion… Ack!”She was held firmly by the shoulders as handfuls of cotton wool were forcibly stuffed into her mouth. Each strand of fiber felt like tiny needles piercing her trachea.She felt as if somethi

Five days later, the school held a parent-teacher conference.Orion had texted Elara a reminder to attend the conference. She decided to oblige to avoid complications before she left.When she arrived, the auditorium was packed, but she managed to secure a seat.Shortly after that, the principal stepped onto the stage and announced jovially with a bright smile, “Good afternoon. We’re honored to have the mother of Cliff and Emilia giving us a speech on behalf of all of the parents!”Elara was taken aback.She was still stuck wondering why nobody had bothered to tell her to prepare a speech when she noticed Cyrene heading onto the stage.Cyrene reached for the microphone and started her speech. “Hello, everyone. I’m Cliff and Emilia's mother, Cyrene…”Elara began to dissociate and did not catch a single word after that.She watched as her two children went to Cyrene’s side with a hop, skip, and a jump.She watched as they took pictures with their arms wrapped around Cyrene.Her

Cliff and Emilia searched for Elara everywhere to no avail. Soon, they returned with a frown and went up to Orion to throw their arms around his waist.“Daddy, where's Mommy?”“We're so hungry! We want Mommy's cookies!”Orion frowned faintly.Elara was always by her children's side. She used to take them with her wherever she went.However, now…“Oh yeah!” Cliff suddenly recalled. “Mommy says she’s going somewhere when we have the parent-teacher conference, but she never told me where. Aunt Cyrene knows about this too.”Orion was slightly relieved at the thought that Cyrene was clued into what was happening too. He assumed Elara had something urgent to attend to and had tasked Cyrene to look after the children.Then, Emilia suggested with a dainty look, “Daddy, should we get some dinner with Aunt Cyrene?”Cliff clapped his hands excitedly, “Yes, yes, good idea!”Now that the children were ecstatically looking at him, Orion set aside the half-opened package on the table and yi

Emilia leaned in closer, tracing the words on the document as she slowly read them aloud, “Divorce… Decree… Daddy, are you and Mommy divorced?”Orion approached them and snatched the divorce decree before flipping it open.The moment he saw his name and Elara's writing on the page, his mind turned blank!He traced every word on the document and even flipped it several times to verify the details.Finally, after verifying that the seal was legitimate, he had no choice but to accept the truth that this document attested to his divorce from Elara.He was sure he had never signed any divorce papers. How did Elara manage to get divorced from him?Meanwhile, Emilia asked innocently, “Daddy, are you and Mommy really divorced? Does that mean Aunt Cyrene can be our mommy now?”She was oblivious to the whirlpool of panic in Orion’s eyes.For the last few days, the divorce decree had already been served to him, but he never noticed it at all.What a sick joke!Then, Cyrene approached hi