All Chapters of Walking Their Own Paths: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Hazel Fresco, Jack Brook’s wife, was nestled in the arms of a young man named Bennett Oldham.“Mrs. Brook, your dessert is here.”Kai glanced across the crowd and set the dessert on the table with his head lowered.Hazel took it and placed it in front of Bennett.“Your favorite mango shaved ice is here. I heard it was the last one, so good thing I gave the kitchen a heads-up. Otherwise, you’d throw a fit if you couldn’t have it.”She affectionately pinched Bennett’s nose and added, “But you can’t have too much. You’ve got a cold, so take it easy on the cold stuff.”Bennett said, displeased, “You promised me I could eat whatever I wanted on my birthday!”My high school best friend, Alex Clare, spoke up for her with a smile. “Hazel is just looking out for you. You’re still sick. If you ate something and it made you worse, she’d be devastated.”A few women close to her also spoke up for her. “Bennett, come on, that’s not fair. Don’t you know how much you mean to her?“Your birthd

Hazel shrugged, looking completely unbothered.“As long as you stay out of me and Ben’s way and let me have this baby without any drama, I’m fine with it.”Jack’s heart went completely cold as he stared at the woman he had loved for ten years.He nodded. “Fine. I’ll stay out of it. I just have one condition. We’re getting a divorce.”Hazel rejected it quickly. “Not happening. I told you, I’m just having fun. I’m not divorcing you.”“You’re already carrying his child. Do you want the baby to be born and call me dad?”“So what? I don’t care. You’re the only one I care about.”Just as she said that, the sound of a man sobbing came from outside the door.She opened the door and found Bennett crying.“I’m sorry. I was trying to get to the bathroom. I didn’t mean to eavesdrop.”Her heart ached as she tried to comfort him. “Ben, that’s not what I meant...”He shook his head. “I get it. I never wanted to take anything from Mr. Brook. I just can’t help myself! Just thinking about the

Sharp, stinging pain hit him. Jack watched helplessly as bag after bag of his blood was drained from his body.At first, he was still fairly conscious.He did not know how much had been drawn, but his vision started to go black. A bone-chilling cold spread through his entire body, and even his limbs gradually went numb.Almost instinctively, he looked up at Hazel. He wanted her to hold him the way she used to, or cover his eyes and tell him not to be afraid.But what he saw was Hazel keeping watch over Bennett.She was holding his hand as tears welled in her eyes. Her shoulders were shaking from crying.“Ben, don’t be scared. You’re going to be fine. As long as you pull through, I’ll do anything.”It was not that Hazel never cried. In all their years together, she had only ever cried three times.The first time, he had been in a car accident and was covered in blood. She had abandoned a meeting and rushed to the hospital. She had grabbed his hand and cried her eyes out.Th

Seeing the flowers fall to the floor, Bennett immediately burst into tears.“Boohoo... Mr. Brook, I came all this way to thank you. How could you do that?”Hazel frowned as she said angrily, “Jack, what’s wrong with you? Ben came here out of the goodness of his heart to thank you. “It’s fine if you don’t want to accept it, but you yelled at him!”“Yelled at him?!”Jack’s heart pounded rapidly as he watched her blindly defend Bennett.“Hazel, I’m deathly allergic to lilies! You forgot that too, didn’t you?”Bennett said sadly, “I’m sorry, Mr. Brook. I didn’t know. I even asked Hazel, and she didn’t tell me you were allergic to lilies. Otherwise, I would’ve picked something else.”Hazel froze. Bennett had really asked her. She was the one who had forgotten.What happened to her? She used to remember every little detail about Jack, even how he disliked scallions. How could she have forgotten something as serious as his lily allergy?“Get out! Take the flowers out!”He lay we

Hazel grabbed Alex’s phone and checked. Once she saw they had both been blocked, she grabbed Taylor by the collar and yelled, “Open your feed right now so I can see it!”“Oh, okay, okay!” Taylor jumped and pulled up Jack’s profile right away.The first pinned post was Isla’s, which Jack had reposted with a comment of his own.[Finally married the man I’ve always wanted to marry @jack_brook.]The comments had blown up.Jack only replied to one of them, and he made it public for everyone to see.[As of today, I’m no longer Hazel’s husband. The marriage is real.]Besides that reply, he had also posted a photo. It was his divorce decree with Hazel.“Jack actually married someone else?!” Alex shook his head, unable to believe it.“No way. He loves you too much to marry someone else. Hazel, don’t overthink this. Just hurry to his room and find him!”“Right, he wouldn’t marry someone else. He’s probably just trying to scare me. We agreed we’d see other people before we got back