The Divorce That Brought Us Back novel Chapter 363

"For both of us, a divorce is the only clean way out."

Cassidy's tone was eerily calm, almost like she was reciting facts. It carried a hint of manipulation, layered over a very real, very dangerous threat.

She was trying her absolute best to keep things civil.

But she was so profoundly done.

Seeing Parker stare at her like a deer in headlights, Cassidy navigated through the trashed VIP room, found a clean corner on one of the leather sofas, and sat down.

She pulled out her phone and started scrolling, completely ignoring him.

A long, suffocating silence dragged on.

Finally, Parker's hoarse voice broke the quiet.

"How did you convince Seraphina to help you?"

Cassidy couldn't help but let out a mocking laugh.

He sat there for all that time, and *that* was the brilliant question he managed to scrape together?

Was his ego bruised because Seraphina had treated Cassidy with actual respect?

Oh, it was far more than that.

Maloney had forced Cassidy to play the middleman.

To put it simply: Seraphina had approached Maloney for an alliance, hoping to trade favors and leverage his extensive network to crush The Cole Family.

But Maloney had approached Cassidy. He funneled all his resources through her first, forcing Cassidy to act as the broker with Seraphina.

When she was first dragged into the scheme, Cassidy had silently cursed Maloney and Seraphina's cutthroat Machiavellian tactics.

Maloney's primary goal was to use Cassidy as a physical firewall to prove to Nora that he had zero direct contact with Seraphina.

His secondary goal was insurance. Nora wasn't asking questions about his past right now, but if things ever blew up in the future, Cassidy was already deeply embedded in the plot. She would serve as Maloney's star witness.

As for Seraphina, that was obvious.

She treated anyone who could make her richer like her own flesh and blood.

If Cassidy wasn't pulling a massive profit from the arrangement herself, she would have sprinted straight to Nora to expose how deeply manipulative those two really were.

Oddly enough, Nora didn't seem to care much about Maloney pulling strings from the shadows anymore.

Regardless, right now, Seraphina desperately needed Cassidy to negotiate with Maloney on her behalf. Naturally, she was treating Cassidy like royalty.

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