OH PLEASE, MY EX-WIFE

His words catch Alice off guard. It's painful for her to see the bitterness in Edward's eyes. She can sense his torturous jealousy, but... Randall shifts his eyes from Edward's irritated face to Alice's blank face, reaching his hands out to Alice. "Wait for me in the car." "Alice!" Alice's name bites out of Edward's lips, his cold eyes glued to Alice. How dare she get on Randall's car!

"I'll wait you outside."

In the nick of time, a black Cadillac pulls off, and a lady of high society gets off, coldly staring at Alice. She is talking on her phone, "Commissioner Holt, I just come across a prisoner standing in front of a police station." After hanging up on it, Janet Louis walks slowly toward Alice.

With furrowed brows, Edward says unhappily to her mother, "Mom, why are you here?"

"Why not? To allow you to rile others up again?" Janet scoffs and shoots Alice a disgusted glare. Alice is the bitch to start it all.

""Mr. Collins..."

Alice looks at Randall as if she's begging him. Randall figures out that she wants her to stop Edward, which will be construed as a scene of a hero saving his lover. ""Wait for me, please."

"Thanks."

Edward is exasperated in jealousy as Alice and Randall show off their affectionate conversation in his face. When he tries to grab Alice's hand, Randall latches a hand onto Edward's forearm. "Boss Edward, I'm sorry but Alice obviously doesn't want to go with you. Please don't bother her anymore."

It hurts Edward to hear Alice's name out of Randall's lips.

There's jealous fire burning in Edward's eyes, while Alice is too busy fretting over her children to notice Edward's glare. She hopes Randall can safely bring her children out of that place.

But things are more complicated than she thinks.

Suddenly, a squad of policemen show up and besiege them, then there comes a dignified man, Commissioner Holt, who greets Edward politely, "Boss Edward, sorry to bother you, but we have to take her away."

Then Commissioner Holt gestures to the policemen, and Alice is cuffed by two policemen.

"Harry Holt!" Edward bellows. He wants to stop them, but his head is pointed at by their guns. Janet is afraid that her son will stand up against the police and hastily pulls him away. "She's a prisoner who should be taken away by the police." Edward doesn't give her words a shit as he can't let her lover sent to prison again. He plunges at Alice without fearing the guns and glares at Commissioner Holt. "Let go of her!"

"I'm sorry, Boss Edward, but Miss Alice is arrested for an alleged intentional car accident, we have the proof. Please do not obtrude the law enforcement." Commissioner Holt darkens his face as Edward doesn't step aside. "If you continue stopping us, we'll have to put you in jail, too."

"I dare you!" Edward doesn't care about it, but Janet realizes that Hale family must have Commissioner Holt's back so that he can act tough in Edward's face.

If Edward doesn't let Alice go, Hale family will declare war on him.

"My son, are you insane? Don't you remember it's she who broke your heart? She won't thank you for anything you do for her as she's a heartless bitch." Janet wants to get close to Edward, but she fears the guns. She can only scream at him to prevent him. Alice's tears threaten to run out of her eyes as she is moved by Edward.

Janet is right about her. She doesn't worth it.Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.

"Set my children free, and I'll turn myself in."

"Alice!"

Ignoring Edward's glare, Alice is willing to enter the police station with the policemen. Her five years' suffering tell her there's something fishy about her arrest.

Joanna Hale will never let her off easily, and she has implied her by telling her to go back to the place where she belongs to.

She loses her battle with Joanna just like what she did five years ago.

She hopes Joanna can be sane enough to let go of her children.

Edward is controlled by the policemen around as he's dying to grab Alice's hand and take her away. Janet rushes to him and yells, "Step over my corpse first, if you want to take her away." "Mom!"

"Don't you ever call me your mother again! Wake up, Edward. Alice doesn't love you at all, and she hits Jacquiline. Now you don't care for yourself or Jacquiline. Plus, you don't even care about the difficulties for your company." Edward gradually calms himself down as he is stroke by Janet's reasonable accusation. He's not an impulsive man, unless Alice gets trouble.

He's afraid that Alice can't get out of the prison anymore. He's so careless that Joanna's family takes a shot at his lover.

"What are you going to do?"

"Take the children home." Edward strikes into the police station. No policemen dares to stop him, but they follow him in case he breaks into the jail.

Alice meets her children again as she is behind the bars again.

"Mommy!" The children almost shed tears as they see Alice. Timid Rebecca cries out loud, while strong-minded Albert is also about to cry. After all, they are just kids of four years old.

Talent as Albert is, he can do nothing but comfort his sister. He guesses the bad guys won't hurt them as they need them to control Alice.

Both of them have suppressed their emotions and waited for Alice. Now that Alice is here, they can finally show their fear and agony.

"It's my bad. It's my bad. I should've been here early. I'm so sorry..."

Alice sobs, hugging her children. Suddenly, she pulls them away and glances over them. She sighs in relief as she finds them without any scars, but thinner than before.☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐