Chapter 3

When she got home, she started packing her things.

Green Garden Villa had been their home together. But now that she’d decided to divorce, she didn’t want to stay there anymore.

Halfway through packing, two men suddenly barged in and grabbed her, dragging her outside without a word.

Serena’s face changed. “What are you doing?!”

Right as she asked, she met Wilmer’s cold gaze at the door.

“You burned all of Brionne’s birthday gifts,” he said flatly. “I’m just returning the favor.”

Then he ordered his men to pour gasoline around the villa inside and out.

Without hesitation, he flicked his lighter into it.

With a whoosh, flames exploded instantly.

Serena’s pupils shrank as she stared at the fire raging in front of her.

Aside from the two years they’d been drifting, they had lived in this house for eight full years.

Everything inside held their most precious memories. And now, it was all turning to ash.

Her eyes turned red. But the next second, she laughed.

Wilmer frowned immediately.

He hadn’t expected that reaction.

He’d already been feeling a flicker of regret for setting the fire on impulse. But seeing her laugh now, something sharp and restless rose in his chest.

“What are you laughing at?” he asked coldly. “I remember you saying this place was our home for eight years.”

Isn’t a home supposed to mean everything to someone?

Serena’s laughter didn’t falter.

“Yeah.Exactly because it’s been eight years,there’s too much of us in there.I didn’t even know how to deal with it.“Honestly?You just made it easy for me.”

“Guess I should thank you,”she added casually.

Then she reached up,took off the pendant around her neck,and threw it straight into the flames.

Wilmer froze,shouting,“Hey!You—”

Serena didn’t respond.

She knew exactly why he reacted like that.

The thing she just threw away was a protection charm he had gotten for her after kneeling through three thousand steps,praying for three days straight in front of a temple.

And just like that,she let it burn.

Since she had decided to leave Wilmer forever, everything she had cherished over the years should, like these objects, be burned to ashes in the fire.

Even if Wilmer regrets it later, she will never give him a chance to regret it.