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Grace’s forehead skipped a beat, and a hint of strangeness flashed through her mind.
She looked at Lucas, but he continued to eat his meal with a calm expression, as if the words just now didn’t mean anything else, and it was all her overthinking.
Grace took a big sip of water to calm herself down.
After finally finishing the meal, she brought up the topic of collaboration again: “Mr. Palmer, should we pick a time to specifically discuss the collaboration?”
Lucas tapped his fingers on the table and looked at her with a half–smile, “Ms. Parrish, have you ever heard of the term ‘unspoken rules‘?”
These three words, spoken from the mouth of the elegant and noble Lucas, felt truly out of place.
Grace pretended to be calm: “Mr. Palmer really loves joking.”
Lucas laughed, “How do you know I was joking? What if I was being serious?”
Grace stared at his face for a while, trying to read something from his expression and eyes.
But he smiled calmly from beginning to end.
She didn’t think Lucas was that kind of hypocrite.
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If he was really that kind of person, he could have done whatever he wanted that day at the hotel, anyway she couldn’t resist.
The only explanation was that he was teasing her.
Just like a cat playing with a mouse that cannot escape.
“Lucas, were you sick?”
As soon as the words came out, Grace regretted it.
If Lucas was angry, cooperation would be in jeopardy.
Lucas pursed his lips, and his deep gaze seemed like a whirlpool that could draw people in. “What, you know how to heal?”
Grace resisted the urge to roll her eyes and tried to calm herself down, saying, “Mr. Palmer, please give me a definite answer!”
Her tone became slightly more assertive.
Lucas finally stopped teasing her: “Tomorrow morning, you will handle the divorce certificate, and in the afternoon, you will come to my office to sign the contract.”
After going back, Grace kept wondering what Lucas meant by that sentence.
In the morning, I got divorced, and in the afternoon, I went to sign a contract.
What is the relationship between getting a divorce certificate and signing a contract?
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Or is it that Lucas is so considerate, specifically clearing his schedule in the morning for her to go and get the divorce certificate?
She thought and thought, but couldn’t come up with an answer, so she decided to stop thinking about it.
She sat in the office and opened her phone, only to see a bunch of unread messages, all from Antonio.
She didn’t have the mood to look at his inquiries, apologies, and those words that recalled the past happiness. She directly edited a message and sent it.
“Tomorrow morning, meet at the courthouse. If you don’t come, then we will have to have a lawyer talk to you.”
After sending this message, Grace put her phone aside.
Antonio, upon seeing it, was likely to go.
The divorce agreement she gave was almost a clean break, she didn’t even ask for the 5% stake in the Kaufman Group that Peter had given her before.
If the lawyer were to speak, Antonio would probably bleed heavily.
Grace did not anticipate.
The next day, Antonio indeed appeared at the courthouse
entrance.
He looked at Grace, full of pain and sorrow, “Grace, do we have to get divorced?”
Grace sneered, “Antonio, it’s been five years. Have you ever
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cared about this marriage as much as I have?”
“Who is it being dressed up for now?”
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Antonio’s face turned pale, and he couldn’t find a single word to refute.
He didn’t wake up until the moment the chapter was closed.
The girl who once wanted to spend her whole life with him has finally left him completely.
The moment Grace received the divorce certificate, she let out a sigh of relief.
The marriage that tormented her for five years finally came to an end.
When she was stepping down the stairs, Antonio called out to her.
“Grace, can we keep the divorce a secret from my mom for now?”
Grace found it funny.
The original plan was to leave her in the hotel and catch her in bed with someone, just to naturally bring Celeste into the picture, right?
Now I am worried about Fiona.
Although Grace felt that Antonio was extremely hypocritical, she still agreed, “Hmm.”
She wasn’t looking at past emotions, but solely because of Fiona, who treated her like a biological daughter.
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In the afternoon, she took the contract and went to Lucas’s office.
The first thing Lucas saw her say was, “Are you leaving?”
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