He Left Me Behind, So I Married Someone Else Chapter 10

He Left Me Behind, So I Married Someone Else Chapter 10

He stared at Nora’s face in the photo for a long time.

Then he stood up and walked out.

“Adrian?”

“Go to sleep.”

He pushed open the door and stepped into the elevator.

This time, he didn’t look back.

A notification suddenly appeared on his phone.

Ryan had sent another message, clearly frustrated that Adrian still didn’t get it.

“I just saw Ethan posted another Status.”

“He said he’s taking his wife to the Hot Springs tonight.”

“It’s some Hot Springs resort over in Frostvale Mountain Town. Just go there when you arrive.”

Hot Springs.

He stared at those words.

And suddenly, he remembered something.

Every winter, Nora used to say she wanted to go to a Hot Springs resort.

She always said soaking in warm water when the weather was cold felt amazing.

He had always said:

“Sure. We’ll go when I have time.”

But they never went.

He couldn’t even remember why anymore.

Maybe Grace had needed his help back then.

Maybe he had simply been too busy.

One delay became another until he forgot.

He couldn’t remember.

His chest tightened.

Even breathing suddenly became difficult.

A kind of unease he had never felt before suddenly rushed over him.

He quickly flagged down a car.

“To the station. Hurry. As fast as you can.”

Nora had been wearing that fake smile all day.

Last night at the Night Market, she had been squatting in front of the Fish and Chips stand, eating fries.

Her mouth had been stuffed full.

Her cheeks puffed out like a little hamster.

The light from the nearby stall happened to shine right on her face.

Her face was shiny with grease, and her expression was hilariously distorted.

And somehow…

Someone had captured that exact moment.

The caption read:

The Official Spokesperson of Frostvale Mountain Town’s Night Market.

And the person who posted it was Ethan.

The guy she had a history with back in college.

He was one year below her.

The moment he entered university, he became known as the “handsome law student” and the “freshman

heartthrob.”

The girls chasing after him could have lined up from the dorms all the way to the school gates.

As for Ethan?

He never turned anyone down.

Dinner with one girl today.

A study session with another tomorrow.

His girlfriends changed more often than his phone cases.

Nora’s first interaction with him happened during the first semester of her sophomore year.

That night, Nora and her roommate were walking around campus when they saw a crowd gathered around

the basketball court, cheering loudly.

A group of students were playing Truth or Dare.

Nora had barely stopped when she saw Ethan get pushed out of the crowd.

He was wearing a black hoodie.

He walked up to her.

His eyes were bright, almost like a puppy that had just woken up.

“Hey,” he said.

His voice was lazy and playful.

“I like you. Be my girlfriend.”

The people around them burst into laughter.

Nora looked up at him.

He was over six feet tall, pretending to be innocent.

There was a knowing smile in his eyes.

The kind that said:

I know you’ll go along with it.

He thought that even if she knew it was just a game…

She would blush.

She would get embarrassed.

She would panic and say yes.

But Nora only smiled.

Then, loud enough for everyone around them to hear, she said:

“That’s such an old trick.”

“If you’re trying to flirt, at least come up with something new.”

Everyone froze.

She had already turned around and walked away with her roommate.

She had zero tolerance for people using a game as an excuse to harass someone.

She thought that was the end of it.

But the next day…

Ethan stopped her outside the library.