First Love Only? I Left Him First, Now the CEO Can't Let Go novel Chapter 96

Chapter 96: Chapter 96: Can’t We Just Not Get Divorced?

Serena staggered and thought Caleb was going to push her off the building, breaking out in a cold sweat.

However, Caleb quickly held her and wrapped her tightly in his arms.

Serena was stunned, her heart pounding.

Caleb’s embrace always had the pleasant scent of men’s perfume.

And it was the same now.

But he had changed his perfume.

This one now smelled more like melting glacier snow, crisp and sharp, with a seductive and dangerous scent in the later notes.

Serena knew very well that her accelerated heartbeat was not because of Caleb’s embrace.

It was the lingering fear and unsettled nerves.

Caleb held her, still standing at the edge of the rooftop, only one wrong step or imbalance away from them both falling off together.

Falling from the 80th floor to the ground, turning into pulp.

Serena dared not move recklessly and had no choice but to let Caleb hold her.

The wind grew stronger.

Yet time seemed to slow down.

"Is this the outcome you wanted?"

Caleb’s cold voice seemed capable of scraping off a layer of frost.

Serena didn’t answer.

"Filing for divorce, causing the Lockwood Group’s market value to evaporate, forcing its employees to jump off buildings."

Before Caleb finished speaking, Serena suddenly pushed him away.

Caleb felt a jolt in his chest and reflexively grabbed Serena’s hand.

Pushing and shoving on the rooftop edge did seem like a death wish, but Serena was infuriated by Caleb’s accusation.

"How would forcing your employees to jump off benefit me? If I were to force anyone, it should be you jumping!"

Caleb shrugged with a smile as he watched Serena bristled like an angry cat.

"Angry words? Or truth?"

"Truth."

After Serena spoke, seeing Caleb smile even more, she knew Caleb certainly didn’t believe her.

"Regardless of your intentions or who leaked it, as long as we reach the stage of filing for divorce, we’ll face such consequences... Serena, the one who jumped today, Jordan Sanders, is a relative of Mr. Miller..."

Serena’s eyes widened.

"Fortunately, he was saved, but... those laid off, those with their salaries halved, those demoted, aren’t just Jordan... How many employees are affected by the Lockwood Group’s trouble, and how many families are involved? Have you thought about it?"

"So what exactly are you trying to say? You’re saying this is all my fault, aren’t you?"

"Can’t we not divorce?"

Caleb’s words still carried a faint tone, yet they weren’t as cold or assertive as usual.

For a moment, it even gave Serena the illusion that Caleb was pleading with her.

The cooling evening wind lingered between the two, stealing away each other’s warmth.

Serena clenched her fists.

Once, she never thought she and Caleb would end up like this.

At least, back when she married Caleb, she never thought it would come to this.

"Everything started when Claire Shaw returned to the country, and from the moment I miscarried... you should have realized, this marriage... must end."

Serena looked at Caleb, at the face before her, more mature and handsome than she remembered.

Perhaps the wrong one was her!

She fell too deep.

Placed too much weight on youthful promises and agreements, on the emotions and sweetness of first love.

To this day, the filter of the young man who risked everything for her in the juvenile detention center hasn’t completely shattered.

Yet the girl from the detention center had long disappeared from Caleb’s river of memories.

"We can divorce, but not now, and not through litigation."

Caleb’s voice, back to its cold tone, pulled Serena from the past to the present.

"If it weren’t for you asking for an exorbitant 30 billion, I wouldn’t have resorted to such measures."

Serena didn’t want to take the blame for everything.

"I’m a businesswoman; pursuing profit and being calculative is my nature."

Serena was too lazy to argue with Caleb, knowing Caleb always believed whatever he did was right, with full justification.

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