Divorce Count Down Chapter 26
In October, the temperature in Eureka Springs gradually dropped. The autumn breeze swept through, carrying away all the exhaustion.
Amelia flipped through her check-in information as she slowly walked into the hotel.
But as soon as she reached the front desk, she ran into Julian head-on again.
Once or twice could be a coincidence, but by the third time, Amelia truly couldn’t stand it anymore.
“Such a big city, so many hotels, don’t tell me it’s just another coincidence!”
Faced with her angry accusation, Julian remained unfazed.
“Coincidences can be fate or man-made. Either way, meeting each other still takes luck, doesn’t it? Maybe I’m just lucky, or maybe we’re destined to meet.”
Amelia pressed her fingers to her brow, trying to pull herself together.
“If we were really destined, would we have ended up getting divorced? Stop lying to my face, Julian.”
“Isn’t it possible that our fate only truly began after the divorce?”
He sounded so serious, but Amelia only felt he was talking nonsense and couldn’t help but mock him.
“Then I say our fate ran out the day we divorced! Now it’s just a cursed bond!”
Julian nodded in agreement.
“Maybe it is a cursed bond, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. If you hadn’t kept creating all those chance encounters seven years ago and left such a deep impression on me, I wouldn’t have chosen you as my first choice for marriage, and we wouldn’t haye all these entanglements, lingering on until today. Since you think the fate you fought for back then has been used up, I’m more than willing to learn from your persistence and never-give-up spirit, and renew our connection.”
To Amelia, the fact that she had chased Julian for four years felt like a criminal record permanently stamped on her life.
Especially hearing him bring it up himself, she found it hard not to feel both embarrassed and angry.
“Is digging up the past all you know how to do?”
“I also know how to create all sorts of chance encounters.”
Amelia was almost amused by his stubbornness.
“What did I do to deserve being pestered by/you!”
Julian looked at her with deep eyes, filled with complicated emotions.
“Your mistake was getting involved with me ten years ago, Lia.”
For once, Amelia actually agreed with him.
She clenched her fists, forced herself to calm down, and tried to talk to him rationally.
“So what exactly do you want before you’ll let me go?”
“I’m not deliberately pestering you. It’s all fate. Why don’t you believe me?”
Seeing him still hiding behind these vague excuses, Amelia completely lost her patience and decided to just go with it.
“Fine, you like talking about fate, right? Then let’s make a bet and see if it’s really destiny!”
Julian’s gaze sharpened, a hint of doubt in his tone.
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