A Lifetime With You

Chapter 23

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Chapter 23 A date?

It turned out that he wasn’t entertaining the company’s shareholders. Instead, he went on a date with a

woman. Ava watched as the phone screen slowly dimmed, and there was an upheaval of emotions in

her chest.

Heh, she had just told him that she wanted a divorce the day before, and he had already gone on a date

with a woman today. He acted swiftly indeed.

He was in such a rush to get rid of her, wasn’t he?

As she looked at the man beside her, who was sleeping soundly because of how drunk he was, she felt

tremendously disgusted. If she had seen his true colours back then, she wouldn’t have ended up in this

state today. It seemed that their marriage was really over. She forcefully pushed him away, but he

tightened his grip around her waist. He was hugging her tightly. It was a warm embrace, but it disgusted

her to no end.

She suppressed the nausea in her chest all night.

At dawn the next day, Damien finally woke up.

As soon as he let go of Ava, she shoved him away and ran into the bathroom.

Damien heard her retching. Damien sat up slowly. He was dizzy from the hangover, and he felt extremely

uncomfortable. He should be the one retching instead He had really drank too much. He didn’t even

remember how he got home the night before. A few minutes later, Ava walked out of the bathroom. The

moment she opened the door, she bumped into a sturdy chest. Damien stood at the door and asked,

“What’s wrong?”

“Nothing much. I just feel disgusted,” she said coldly. Damien subconsciously sniffed himself. Did he reek

that much of alcohol? Ava sneered. “Every single second you hug me, I feel absolutely disgusted.”

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Damien’s expression immediately turned dark. “In that case, you don’t have to sleep in my bedroom

anymore. Or you’re just going to get disgusted whenever I’m in the mood to come back.”

“Right. I’ve been meaning to do this too.” Ava smiled and said, “Bring the divorce agreement over. I’ll sign

it and move out immediately.” “You want to escape after making a mess, huh? Ava, life isn’t so easy.”

“What happened with Beth is your mess, not mine.” Ava entered the walk-in wardrobe to get changed.

She then went out.

It was a Saturday, so she didn’t have to go to work. After thinking about it for a moment, she decided to

go and see her mother.

However, before she could reach her mother’s place, she received a call from her father. “Where are

you? Hurry up and come back!”

Ava sighed softly. She was almost at her mother’s place already, but she had no choice but to ask the

cab to go to the Nagel family’s residence instead. The atmosphere in the living room was extremely

dreary. Beth was sitting next to her mother, Cecelia Jerrison, and she was crying profusely. Meanwhile,

her father, Keenan Nagel, wore a dark expression on his face. “What have you been doing at the

Radbury family? How did you allow your sister to end up like this?” As soon as Keenan saw Ava enter

the house, he questioned her sternly. Ava saw the situation in the living room and immediately

understood what was going on. After it was exposed that Beth had faked her pregnancy, the Radbury

family had probably stirred up trouble with her family members. “Dad, Beth is the one who was obsessed

with Damien and tried to snatch away my husband. Now that she failed to make my husband cheat on

me and got into trouble instead, you’re questioning me for what happened. Why? Do you want me to cry

in front of you too?” “You…” Beth stood up and sobbed as she said, “If you didn’t deliberately push me

downstairs that day, I wouldn’t have fallen. This only happened to me because of you!” Now that it had

been exposed that she was faking her pregnancy, Beth had totally lost all dignity in front of Damien. And

Damien’s mother, Karen, was no longer taking her side.

Now that all her efforts had been in vain, she was naturally venting all her anger and hatred on Ava.

“You’re so good at escaping responsibility. So, was I the one who asked you to seduce my husband? Or

was I the one who asked you to fake your pregnancy and miscarriage so that I would get myself into

trouble?”

“You… It’s all because you aren’t able to give the Radbury family an heir. I was worried that the alliance

between our two families would be destroyed, so I had no choice but to come up with something!”

“You’re making yourself sound so noble. So, you’re saying that you did all these for our family? Haha.”

The more Ava thought about it, the more she found it hilarious. Beth was the one who stirred up trouble,

but all the members of the Nagel family were sitting in a row and looking at Ava, as though Ava was the

one who did something wrong. Beth’s mother, Cecelia, stood up and said, “Your sister didn’t handle this

well, but why would you make things worse? Now that our family has offended the Radbury family, does

it do you any good?” “Since when did I make things worse?” “If you didn’t belittle me and slander me in

front of Damien’s mother, why would she hate me so much? She used to like me! Well, look at what

you’ve done. Now, the entire Radbury family is angry at our family. They even withdrew the investment

they had promised to make. Are you happy now?” Beth said.

Ava was taken aback. The Radbury family withdrew their investment? What was going on? Seeing that

Ava didn’t know what was going on, Keenan said coldly, “Yesterday, during Radbury Group’s

shareholders’ meeting, they canceled two major projects that we were supposed to cooperate on. Nagel

Group suffered quite a huge loss because of this.” “How could this be?” Ava never had the right to

inquire about whatever was going on in Radbury Group. Hence, she had no idea about this.

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But she knew that her family put in a lot of effort so that they could have a marriage of convenience with

the Radbury family. Now that Radbury Group had suddenly withdrawn their investment, it meant that they

no longer cared about maintaining their relationship with the Nagel family. “If you had behaved well in the

Radbury family, Beth wouldn’t have caused such dire consequences by doing something so minor. Ava,

I’m very disappointed in you,” Keenan said with a cold expression on his face.

From the beginning to the end, he had never cared about Ava’s feelings. All he did was blame her.

Ava’s heart sank. 2

She had always known that her father liked Beth more.

Back when she insisted on marrying Damien, her father was actually reluctant. In his opinion, Beth

deserved such a rich and successful man more. However, Ava’s mother resorted to dirty tricks, which

resulted in Ava marrying into the Radbury family. Ever since then, to her father, she was nothing more

than a tool that enabled the Nagel family to do business with the Radbury family. When he needed her,

he would treat her well and smile at her. Whenever things went wrong, he would treat her with disdain.

This time, it was obviously Beth who had gotten the family into trouble, but the blame fell on her. “Dad, I

will try to ask Damien for help regarding the withdrawal of the investment.” She gritted her teeth.

Although Damien wouldn’t listen to her at all, now that the Nagel family was in trouble, she had no choice

but to bite the bullet and ask Damien for help. In her opinion, what Damien wanted the most was to

divorce her, and she had already agreed to it. Hence, he might be nice for once and help her out. Beth

sneered. “You’ll ask him? He’s busy going on dates with a woman he met during a blind date. He

obviously doesn’t care about you at all. You’ll probably get chased out of the Radbury family soon. Who

are you to ask Damien for help on the Nagel family’s behalf?” “What are you talking about? A blind

date?”

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