I Returned to the Day He Brought His First Love Home-Chapter 25: Divorce (1)

Grace Winslow spent five days in the hospital and had finally recovered.

Worried that Caleb Forrest might come back to harass her, Lily Callahan and Irene Lynch had the brothers Nolan and Brandon Winslow take turns standing guard at the hospital.

Fortunately, Caleb Forrest didn’t come back.

She did, however, occasionally see Archer Rhys.

On the day of her discharge, Nolan Winslow took a half-day off and came with Lily Callahan to pick Grace up. "Big Bro," Grace asked as she looked at Nolan, unable to contain her curiosity, "are you and that guy, Archer Rhys, close? I feel like I keep seeing you two chatting."

Nolan Winslow gave her a puzzled look. "You don’t remember him?"

"He’s that kid who lived next door to us back in the village. You used to trail after him every single day, shouting ’Big Brother, Big Brother.’ You were way more enthusiastic about him than you ever were about me."

"And get this, you used to tell him you were going to be his wife when you grew up."

"So heartless. Then you grew up, met that scumbag Caleb Forrest, and threw a fit until you could marry him."

Grace froze, his words stirring memories from deep within her mind.

If Nolan hadn’t brought it up, she would have completely forgotten.

The sealed memories were unearthed. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

Grace had been ten years old when Archer Rhys left.

She had been closer to Archer Rhys than she was to even Nolan and Brandon.

The first thing she did after school every day was run next door to play with him.

One day, she came home to find the door next door locked. It was as if Archer Rhys had vanished into thin air, and she was sad for several days.

But children are forgetful; the sadness came and went quickly.

It only took her a month to get used to life without Archer Rhys. After that, she completely and thoroughly forgot about the bad guy who had left without so much as a goodbye.

If Nolan hadn’t mentioned him, she might never have remembered.

Remembering it now, she simply tugged at the corners of her mouth, lowered her head, and said nothing.

Packing up her things went quickly.

Nolan had already taken care of the discharge paperwork, so he and Grace left the hospital.

Grace still had to go back to Caleb Forrest’s place to get her things and talk to him about the divorce.

Nolan didn’t feel right about her going back alone, so after they got home and discussed it with the family, they decided that the next day Gregory, Nolan, and Brandon—father and sons—would go with Grace.

If Caleb Forrest dared to try anything, the three of them would be there to back her up.

It was only when she was back home that Grace finally felt grounded.

Nolan and Brandon had both moved out after getting married, living in apartments assigned to them by their work units.

The three families lived close to each other, however, all in the same residential complex.

Irene Lynch and Gregory Winslow had a small three-room apartment. One room was a study that Grace used whenever she was there, and there was another spare room.

Even though she had married and moved out, her family had always kept her room for her.

Lying in her own bed, smelling the sun-dried scent of the blankets, Grace slept soundly that night.

Early the next morning, after breakfast, the four of them headed straight for the textile mill. Nolan gave Grace a ride on his bicycle, and Brandon gave their father, Gregory, a ride on his.

Caleb Forrest would be at work at this hour, and Grace had only intended to pack her things. But when she got to the apartment, she found that he had already changed the locks.

She let out a self-mocking laugh.

’So much for his pretty words.’ They weren’t even divorced yet, and he had already changed the locks.

Grace was just thinking of asking a neighbor to go and get Caleb for her when the woman next door happened to open her door. The neighbor froze when she saw Grace, then exclaimed in surprise, "Grace! How dare you come back?"

"That Caleb Forrest is truly shameless. These past few days you’ve been gone, he’s been running around telling everyone that you ran off with another man and demanded a divorce."

"And that Ivy White? She’s at our textile mill now—working in the finance department, of all things."