Urging Him to Get a Divorce (Aveline and Xavier) novel Chapter 45

Aveline stood up, watching them approach with a blank expression, then said to Valentina, “Valentina, Auntie is leav- ing.”

Xavier was standing right between the coffee table and the sofa, blocking Aveline’s way. She gave him a cold look, telling him to move.

But he said, “Where’s your business dinner? I can have my driver take you, the traffic is bad outside.”

Xavier had never shown this much concern for her before. Now that they were getting a divorce, he was just putting

on an act.

Aveline said coldly, “Do you find this amusing?”

After speaking, she glared at him, signaling for him to get out of the way.

Xavier smiled as if he didn’t care and stepped aside.

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Of course he didn’t care. He was just toying with her for fun, and in front of Josephine, no less.

Aveline walked out with a cold expression. She looked up and saw a familiar–looking man standing beside Josephine.

The man smiled. “Aveline, long time no see.”

Aveline recognized him. It was Dylan Sanders, from the same year as Julian, and also Courtney Kane’s nephew and Josephine’s cousin.

Xavier asked, “You two know each other?”

Dylan laughed. “Yeah, I was Aveline’s senior in school, haha, and also her cousin.”

Aveline didn’t believe for a second that Xavier didn’t know Dylan was Josephine’s cousin. She shot him a cold glance and said icily,

“I don’t have a cousin.”

With that, Aveline turned and walked away, heading for the elevators.

Standing before the elevator, she lowered her gaze and wondered, could the architect Josephine recommended to Xavier be Dylan?

Of course, they’d keep it in the family.

The elevator doors opened. Aveline stepped inside, catching sight of Xavier and the others approaching out of the corner of her eye,

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Once inside, she pressed the button for the second floor, and the doors closed.

Outside the elevator, Valentina looked up at Xavier and said, “Uncle, Auntie is eating here too.”

Xavier held her hand and gave a soft “Mm.”

Valentina kept looking up, her tone resentful. “Uncle, Auntie is mad at you because you broke your promise.”

Xavier looked down at Valentina.

Josephine’s eyes flickered. “Valentina, what are you talking about? Your uncle would never break a promise. He’s a gentleman. My sister is just throwing a tantrum.”

Valentina didn’t like Josephine badmouthing Aveline, and glared at her. “Uncle said he’d pick me up from school, but he didn’t. Isn’t that breaking a promise?”

Josephine defended Xavier. “That’s because your uncle was in a meeting, so he asked my sister to get you. It’s wrong for her to be angry about that. She’s just throwing a fit.”

Valentina was too young to win an argument with Josephine, but she still felt Xavier and Josephine were both wrong. She huffed.

Xavier patted her head. “Okay, Uncle gets it.”

Aveline reached the Chinese restaurant on the second floor. As soon as she entered the private dining room, she quickly apologized.

Bernard, who was gentle and refined, smiled. “We just got here. We’ve ordered, but the food hasn’t come out yet.

I heard you went to pick up your niece from school. Aren’t you an only child? How do you have a niece?”

Bernard didn’t know about Aveline’s family, so he had no idea that her father had moved in the other woman and his illegitimate daughter after her mother died.

He also didn’t know that Aveline and Xavier had gotten their marriage certificate.

Aveline sat down and said, “She’s my husband’s niece.”

Bernard froze. “You’re married?”

Aveline gave a faint smile. “We got the certificate, but no wedding. And now we’re getting a divorce.”

Bernard was even more stunned.

Since they were getting a divorce, he didn’t feel it was right to ask about her husband. He just nodded and said, “If you weren’t a good match, then it wasn’t meant to be. Splitting up might actually be for the best.”

Aveline nodded, “You’re right, Bernard.”

She didn’t tell Bernard that her husband was actually Xavier. For one thing, they were getting a divorce and would soon have nothing to do with him.

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For another, Xavier had never publicly announced their engagement or their marriage certificate, probably because he didn’t want their relationship to be widely known, which could lead to gossip when he married Josephine in the fu-

ture.

Xavier and Dylan were eating here, so she figured he had already accepted Josephine’s recommendation and was go- ing to hire Dylan.