My Deceased Wife Wants a Divorce (Hannah) novel Chapter 216

“What did you say?” Lionel’s brow furrowed, his expression incredulous.

Lily flinched at his sharp tone, clutching Cora’s hand tightly. “When I got here, the frame was already empty. I wondered why there was an empty frame on the table, but my mom told me not to ask questions, so I didn’t.”

Cora, now understanding the situation, pointed at the frame. “I saw it was empty the first day I came to work here. I just figured it was some kind of rich-person eccentricity. You’ve been living here for weeks and you didn’t notice, so why are you yelling at us now?”

To throw a tantrum over a worthless photo frame was just baffling to her. He hadn’t noticed for all this time, so what was the big deal now?

“Sir, it’s not just that one. The missus got rid of all of them.” Lily pointed to a row of empty frames on a nearby shelf. “They’ve been like that for days. I assumed you had noticed but didn’t care, so I never mentioned it.”

She couldn’t believe that Lionel had been in and out of this room countless times over the past few weeks and had never noticed. Anyone would have seen that the photos were gone. The only explanation was that he never looked at them, never cared. Otherwise, how could he miss something so obvious?

Lionel’s gaze shifted to the other empty frames. He was completely stunned.

At the mention of her father, a look of disgust flashed across Cora’s face.

Inside the room, Lionel leaned against a dresser, his eyes fixed on the empty frame. A bitter laugh escaped his lips.

Twenty days. He’d been back for over twenty days, and he hadn’t noticed that their wedding photo was missing from such a large frame. He looked at the other frames, remembering how Hannah had dragged him to take all those pictures.