After Divorcing my Captain Husband (Chloe and Michael)

"Anyway, thanks for punishing Ariana for me. But you don't have to do anything to her again. She and I won't have anything to do with each other after this project is over." William was silent for a moment before he said softly as he turned on the stove, "Okay." After collaborating with Ariana, Chloe met with Jeremy. He was pleased with the results and told Chloe that he hoped to work together again sometime in the future. Chloe smiled and shook his hand. But she said, "In the future, I prefer to work on projects by myself."

Ariana stood by and didn't say anything. During this time, she'd realized that Chloe's professionalism and concentration on the work was more impressive than hers. She had to admit it even if she didn't want to.

Even if Ariana didn't want to work with Chloe again in the future, she wouldn't dare be sarcastic now.

James was sitting on the couch playing video games with Michael when Chloe returned to the villa with the final payment.

Both of them were holding gamepads with solemn and grave expressions.Property of Nô)(velDr(a)ma.Org.

Chloe thought she was hallucinating when she entered the house, thinking, "How can the two of them get along?"

But a second later, James messed with Michael, causing Michael to lose the game.

"James, are you a man or not?"

"Winning on the battlefield is what matters!"

They looked at each other, anger in their eyes. Chloe stood behind them, thinking they were going to fight.

But the next second, James turned to look at her with his hand propped up on the back of the couch. "Chloe, are you finished with that project?" Chloe froze and nodded. "Yes."

"Do you know how many people wanted to do this project before? Now you nailed it. You and Ariana's names are definitely known in the industry." Chloe knew he was trying to use this opportunity to get her name out there in the industry.

She really appreciated him.

"What do you want to eat? Let's go out to eat today."

As it happened, she didn't see William cooking.

"I've made a deal with William for spicy barbeque tonight."

"Spicy barbeque again?"

Chloe hadn't forgotten how crazy the last spicy barbeque was. She was now scared when she heard about the spicy barbeque.

"We're the ones who will eat the spicy barbeque, not you."

His words puzzled Chloe. "What do you mean?"

She thought, "Am I not a human being?"

"Marvin just called and said the Miller family is all here and wants to invite you to dinner. You're not going to go, are you?"

Chloe shuddered. She hadn't even known about going to dinner with the Miller family before.

The Miller family hadn't even been in her presence since the last time she'd told Marvin she wanted to think about this calmly.

She'd almost forgotten about it, but James brought it up again today.

Michael said, "Chloe, I know you find this whole thing troubling. But now just as your project ends, it's really time for you to face up to this." Actually, even if she became part of the Miller family, it didn't mean she wasn't Wendy's kid anymore.

Some things would never change.

Chloe knew Michael had a point. She had indeed been running away all this time.

She just didn't want to admit that her parents' relationship had been shattered since before she was even born.

Besides, Chloe was afraid that being part of the Miller family would make Wendy feel like it was a betrayal of her.