My coldhearted ex demands a remarriage

Chapter 101:

Rubbing the sleep from her eyes, she shuffled to the door.

The urgency in the visitor’s voice immediately jolted her from her grogginess, snapping her to full alertness.

A court official stood at her doorway, papers in hand—Tristan had taken the drastic step of suing her for seizing the inheritance left by her mother.

The legal stipulations were clear. In the absence of a definitive will, Danna’s assets were to be equally split between her spouse and her daughter upon her passing.

Danna, who hadn’t earned an income since marrying, left behind a sole possession—an old apartment encrusted with years of neglect.

Unlivable and long abandoned, the apartment still held a place in Carrie’s heart, drawing her back from time to time for personal visits.noveldrama

Now, Tristan was blatantly accusing her of monopolizing the property and was aggressively seeking compensation for his perceived loss of inheritance, plus damages for the years the apartment stood deserted.

His threats escalated to selling the apartment unless she paid up. Though the apartment was old, its prime location hinted at a lucrative redevelopment opportunity, possibly skyrocketing its worth.

Tristan’s demands were audacious—nine hundred thousand dollars.

Clutching the documents with a white-knuckled grip, disbelief washed over Carrie as she realized just how conniving Tristan could be.

She was well aware that his interest in the apartment was nothing more than a facade. There had to be deeper motives at play.

As she pondered this, her phone buzzed with a call from an unknown number.

She hesitated for a moment before answering.

To her surprise, it was Tristan’s voice that greeted her. “Did you receive the notice from the court?”

Without missing a beat, Carrie cut to the chase. “What are you plotting now, Tristan?”

“You…” Tristan’s voice teetered on the edge of anger when suddenly, Cindy intervened, her tone soothing as she took over the conversation. “Carrie, there’s no need to be so aggressive with us. We’re still family, after all. I understand that this apartment is the only legacy your mother left behind, and I have no intention of depriving you of it.”

There was a brief pause before Cindy added, “But we have a proposition that could benefit us both. Should you accept, your father will relinquish his inheritance rights, and the apartment will be solely yours.”

Cindy’s cunning was no secret to Carrie. She had always been a master of manipulation, cloaking her sharp acumen with the facade of a benevolent stepmother, regardless of how Carrie responded.

With a skeptical frown, Carrie probed further. “And what exactly are you proposing?”

Carrie hadn’t dismissed the idea outright, which prompted Cindy to seize the opportunity, her words tinged with urgency. “Do you remember Nate Crawford? Your ex-fiance? Married or not, he still loves you—it doesn’t matter to him. Now that you’re contemplating a divorce from Kristopher, perhaps reconsidering Nate isn’t such a bad idea?”

This was their true motive, then. They were still clinging to ambitions they had failed to realize years earlier.

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