Read The Unwanted Wife and Her Secret Twins novel by Artemis Z.Y. Updated 2025 -26 - The Unwanted Wife and Her Secret Twins Chapter 443
The Unwanted Wife and Her Secret Twins Chapter 443
I stand there. Watching leaves skitter across the pavement.
Then someone bursts out of the restaurant door.
Scarlett.
She’s moving fast. Too fast for someone who can barely walk straight.
Morton is right behind her. “Scarlett-”
“LEAVE ME ALONE.”
“You can’t drive like this.”
“Watch me.”
“You’re drunk.”
“I’m TIPSY. There’s a difference.”
“You had seven glasses-”
“SIX. I counted. Or-” She stops. Squints. “—or maybe it was seven. The point is I’m FINE.”
She’s not fine. She’s wobbling.
Morton catches her elbow. “Let me drive you home.”
“No.”
“Scarlett-”
“I said NO.” She yanks away. Too hard. Loses her balance.
Morton catches her. Steadies her. His arms around her waist.
For a moment they just stand there. Frozen. His arms around her. Her hands gripping his forearms.
Then she pushes him away. Hard.
“Don’t touch me.”
“You were falling.”
“So let me fall!”
“That’s the stupidest=”
“EVERYONE keeps saying that! Alexander said that! Why does everyone—” She stops. Her face crumples. “Why do you still care? You divorced me. You signed papers. You let me go. So why do you keep-keep—”
“Keep what?”
“Keep being HERE. Keep catching me. Keep-” Her voice breaks.
“Scarlett-”
She holds up a hand. “No. Don’t. Don’t say my name like that.”
“Like what?”
“Like you still love me.”
The parking lot goes very quiet.
Morton’s face does something complicated. Pain and hope and fear all at once.
“What if I do?” he says quietly.
Sophie appears in the doorway. Thomas right behind her.
“Oh good,” Sophie says brightly. “We’re doing this in the parking lot. Very ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ FindN()vel.net
American. Very dramatic.”
“Sophie,” Thomas warns.
“What? This is fascinating. divorcés. The unresolved passion. The ”
“Sophie.”
She sighs. “Fine. I’ll be quiet. But I’m watching. This is too good to miss.”
Scarlett is staring at Morton. “You don’t love me. You loved being married. That’s different.”
“I loved being married to you.”
“Past tense.”
“Present tense. I love being married to you. Even when we’re not married anymore. I-” He stops. Runs
hand through his hair I love you,
Searlett never stoppa
From the car, Alexander’s voice carries: “OOOOOOH. Uncle Morton said the L word.”
My mother: “Shush.”
Alexander: “But he SAID it. The big one. The ”
My mother’s hand appears. Covers his mouth gently.
Scarlett’s eyes are filling. “Don’t.”
“Don’t what?”
“Don’t say things you can’t take back.”
“I don’t want to take it back.”
“Morton-”
“I want to take back the divorce. I
want to take back the distance et
want to take back every moment we’ve wasted being apart when we should have been together
“That’s not how time works.”
“I know. But we can start now. We can start right now in this parking lot with you
drunk and me desperate and-”
She kisses him.
Just launches herself at him. Her hands in his hair. His arms wrapping around her.
Sophie makes a sound of delight.
Thomas turns away. Giving them privacy.
His eyes find mine across the parking lot.
There’s something in his face. Something sad and resigned and accepting.
Then he looks away.
Inside the car, Alexander is SHRIEKING with excitement.
“THEY’RE KISSING! THEY’RE HAVING SEX LIFE IN THE PARKING LOT!”
“ALEXANDER,” my mother and I yell simultaneously.
“What? They’re kissing really loud! That means-”
“That means NOTHING,” I say firmly. “Get in the car. NOW.”
I’m moving. Away from the
Mortarlett situation. /
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Away from Thomas’s sad eyes
Toward my children. My car. My uncomplicated ice cream plan.
“Mama,” Madison says as I slide into the passenger seat. “Is Uncle Morton going
to marry Aunt Scarlett again?”
“Maybe, baby.”
“Can you marry the same person twice?”
“Apparently.”
“That’s weird.”
“Yes it is.”
My mother starts the engine. “Ice cream?”
“Ice cream,” I confirm. “The place on Amsterdam with the ”
“CHOCOLATE CHUNKS,” Alexander shouts.
“Indoor voice, baby.”
“But I’m excited!”
“Indoor excited voice.”
He tries. It comes out as a stage whisper. “Chocolate chunks.”
We pull out of the parking lot. Morton and Scarlett are still kissing.
Sophie is filming them on her phone.noveldrama
Thomas is getting into his own car.
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