Hunting for His EX-Wife

Elliot’s blunt expulsion of Lawrence made the assistant at the door tremble with fear. He spoke cautiously, “Mr. Ingram, I’ll escort you out now.”

They had just agreed to collaborate, and it would be a great loss if it ended abruptly due to a few words. Besides, Mr. Harper had been in a bad mood lately and Elliot needed to be careful.

Lawrence gave Elliot a deep look before leaving Harper Group without saying anything.

After the office quieted down, Elliot pounded his fist hard on the desk with a loud bang. The knuckles on his hand quickly turned red and swollen from the impact but it was nothing compared to his anger and jealousy inside.

Just as Lawrence was being escorted by an assistant to the garage, the front desk manager called.

“Mr. Harper, there’s a lawyer at reception who wants to see you. Should I let him in?”

Still fuming with anger, Elliot didn’t think twice before responding coldly in a low voice, “I didn’t make an appointment with any lawyer; handle him who hasn’t made the appointment according to company policy.”

He was about to hang up when he heard urgency in the manager’s voice. “Mr. Harper! This lawyer doesn’t have an appointment but he says Mrs. Harper asked him here!”

Elliot’s face instantly darkened.

A lawyer?

“Let him come up,” he said curtly.

Elliot sat on his sofa looking grim as Rose’s appointed lawyer walked into his office carrying a briefcase while sporting black-framed glasses that gave him an air of sophistication.

“Hello, Mr. Harper, I’m the attorney sent by Miss Russell so we can discuss divorce matters.” said this middle-aged man politely while standing next to Elliot.

The piercing gaze that fell upon him from Mr. Harper left little doubt that this meeting would not go smoothly.Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g

Elliot pursed his lips tightly revealing some gloominess but remained silent.

The attorney cleared his throat nervously before continuing, “This is Miss Russell’s proposed contract which we can amend after discussing your requirements…” He handed over an agreement from within his briefcase while noticing how angry Mr. Harper looked right now.

The lawyer was startled, his hand holding the agreement shaking slightly.

Elliot stared coldly at the bold and black words on the cover of the agreement in front of him.

Divorce Agreement.

He stared deeply at these big words, gritting his teeth hard. His hands quickly reached out and tore the agreement to pieces, scattering it all over the office.

The lawyer couldn’t believe what he was seeing as he looked down at the shredded paper on the ground and then back up at Elliot. He saw that Elliot’s eyes were dark and heavy with a tinge of deep red underneath them. He glared fiercely at the scraps of paper on the floor that still had “divorce” written on them.

There was a deathly silence in the office.

The lawyer was once again frightened by Elliot’s reaction. He never imagined that such a scene would happen when Rose had said it would be easy to get Elliot to sign off on this divorce agreement.

Could it be that Mr. Harper…

“Divorce? Ha!” Elliot’s eyes were tinged with red as he squeezed his fist so tightly that one could hear his joints creaking from being overused.

“It will never happen.” He declared firmly.

The lawyer was taken aback but without thinking twice, blurted out, “Miss Russell wants a divorce.”

At first, he thought it would be an easy negotiation but now it seemed like there were problems with Elliot instead of Miss Russell wanting to leave him behind.

“She will never get one!” Interrupting him mid-sentence, Elliott took a deep breath to calm himself down before emotionlessly ordering, “This is your first and last time here.”

“If I see you or any other lawyers taking up this job again,” he warned sternly while showing no signs of joking around, “I’ll make sure you’re permanently unemployed in this industry.”

Shivering from fear after hearing those words come out from someone who held such status and power like Elliott did, the lawyer knew for certain those weren’t empty threats either – especially since losing their job wasn’t something he wanted.

As soon as the lawyer left in haste; Elliott’s assistant sitting quietly nearby glanced over towards where the lawyer had just fled before looking back towards his boss’ closed door feeling uneasy about reporting work progress right now…

After the lawyer left, Elliot swept all the files off his desk and onto the floor. His eyes were so dark, as if there were turbulent undercurrents swirling beneath them that would burst forth at any moment.

The office was so quiet it was unnerving, with only Elliot’s heavy breathing breaking the silence. After a long while, he tore his gaze away from the divorce papers and wordlessly grabbed his coat before leaving the company.

Rose is doing just fine! She wants a divorce anyway.

She must be really determined.

Elliot’s angry departure left his assistant too scared to stop him. He could only watch helplessly as Elliot stormed out of sight before sighing in resignation.

The relationship between Mr. Harper and Miss Russell seems to be getting more tense by the day. I just hope their fights don’t involve me!

Meanwhile, back at home…

Rose was idly watching short videos in her room when she received a call from her lawyer. After listening to what he had to say with growing anger, she slammed her phone down on the bed hard enough to make it bounce.

“Miss Russell… please talk things over with Mr. Harper or you may find no lawyer will take your case in the future.” Her lawyer sounded both afraid and helpless before hanging up abruptly.

Leah watched her mother’s furious expression with concern and confusion before tentatively asking, “Mommy? What’s wrong? Don’t get mad… Leah is here for you.”

Looking at Leah’s cute face softened Rose’s anger slightly as she patted her daughter on the head but then heard Elliot pull up outside which reignited it immediately.

Unbeknownst even to herself, ever since returning home and meeting Elliot again, her emotions were constantly fluctuating depending on him – mostly anger whenever they interacted – but usually managed not to let anyone else see how she felt about it all.

In front of the villa, it was indeed Elliot’s car. He sped all the way home, just the thought of Rose divorcing herself was like a fire burning in his heart, if he didn’t vent it out, he would stay angry.