Will the Aloof Billionaire Divorce Today?

Noah Yates pressed his lips together, his face slowly darkening as he said unhappily, "Scarlett, I’m giving you an order, not asking for your opinion. Don’t rely on the fact that I spoil you and keep treating my words like they’re nothing. You’ve been living on your own all these years, so I can’t blame you for developing this bad temper. No one cared before, but now that you’ve come back to the Yates Family, this temper of yours has to change."

"If Rose and Nolan behaved like you, I would’ve punished them a long time ago."

Rose and Nolan—Scarlett Yates froze for a few seconds before reacting. Those must be the names of the younger brother and sister she’d never met.

When Noah Yates mentioned his two children, there wasn’t the slightest trace of guilt on his face; it was as if getting remarried and having kids within two years of Autumn Spencer’s death was the most normal, justified thing in the world.

This sense of entitlement made Scarlett’s heart turn cold in waves, as if it had been thrown into an ice cellar and frozen through, from the inside out.

Look, this is the so-called "good man" all the neighbors praised back then.

Scarlett thought she would be furious, that she wouldn’t be able to stop herself from lashing out at Noah Yates, but she didn’t.

Her reaction was even calmer than she’d imagined, so calm it startled even her: "Those two people you just mentioned, Dad, they’re your children?"

When she said this, there was actually a faint smile on her lips.

Even Noah Yates felt that something was off about her reaction. He frowned and gave her a suspicious look. Who knew if he’d noticed anything? After a few seconds of silence, he nodded. "Mm, they’re your younger brother and sister. Rose is ten this year, Nolan is eleven. I’ve already told them you’d be coming back today, told them they have an older sister. The two of them were very happy and really want to see you as soon as possible."

That kind of line was barely good enough to fool ghosts; Scarlett didn’t believe a single word.

"Oh, is that so? My little brother and sister are already that big, huh. Dad, I remember you told me that back then Mom lured away the people trying to kill you and left with your double, and later there was an accident and she died in a car crash. Dad, my memory has never been very good—help me think, exactly what year was it when Mom died?"

She finished speaking very, very slowly, then smiled and looked at Noah Yates.

In that instant, Noah Yates’s expression changed.

First his face froze over, and after a few seconds of stiffness, his complexion turned livid. It was like a ball of fire suddenly flared up in his eyes as his hawk-like gaze bored angrily into Scarlett. "Scarlett, stop trying to provoke me again and again. I know I wronged you and your mother back then, that’s why I’ve been thinking of making it up to you for the rest of my life. I’ve said it already, some things aren’t as simple as you think. The woman I’ve loved most has always been your mother, but sometimes people just run into situations where they have no control."

"Rose and Nolan’s mother is not someone I ever liked, but at the time I was forced by circumstances and had no choice but to compromise. As my daughter, you should trust me, understand me. If I were truly some ungrateful bastard, I could’ve gone my whole life without ever seeing you again."

Scarlett felt as if she’d just heard the funniest joke in the world.

At this point, she was completely, utterly disappointed in Noah Yates.

Back then, Autumn Spencer must have been blind to fall for such a cold-blooded man.

"Difficult circumstances"? "Forced by the situation"?

She truly couldn’t understand, and she didn’t want to.