Relentless Pursuit After Divorce
Chapter 196. You are quite cheap_1

Chapter 196: 196. You are quite cheap_1

"Elly, just now..."

James Churchill looked at Elly Campbell’s sudden change of expression in astonishment.

Elly Campbell chuckled and casually brushed away the stray hairs at her eye corner, saying, "Just playing the innocent flower, who can’t?"

Then, her gaze shifted to Adam Jones’s ambiguous expression, and she smiled, "Sorry, President Jones, your darling’s face must have been swollen from the hit just now. You better go check on her."

After speaking, she turned to leave, but Adam Jones stopped her.

He looked at Elly Campbell’s indifferent face, his lips curling into a hook, and said, "Although I knew long ago that you’re good at burning bridges, I clearly helped you just now. Are you blind?"

He should have known that this woman was faking it; how could such a hard-hearted woman really show weakness in front of James Campbell? And yet, he was like a fool feeling sorry for her.

Elly Campbell paused and then remembered the words that Adam Jones had said to Theodore Davis just now.

Too picky?

Was he saying he wasn’t interested in Sophie Baker anymore?

"Oh, that’s a pity. That girl boasted to me about finding a pair of worn-out shoes like treasure, but it turns out you don’t even want to let her wear those," she said, looking at Adam Jones with feigned regret, shrugging her shoulders. "Such a waste, picking them up for nothing."

James Churchill couldn’t help but laugh out loud from the sidelines. Comparing Adam Jones to a pair of worn-out shoes, why did he find it so amusing?

Adam Jones didn’t get angry. He simply looked at James Churchill with a faint gaze and a gentle smile, "Second Young Master Churchill, when my wife and I are discussing private matters, it’s not really appropriate for you to be here, is it?"

This was exactly what annoyed James Churchill the most; no matter what he said, with just one statement from Adam Jones about a husband and wife’s matters, he had no ground to stand on.

Damn it, they haven’t even divorced yet!

But it seemed as if he wanted to spite Adam Jones on purpose, he looked at him and said, "You’re not suddenly realizing that you’ve fallen in love with her after Elly decided to leave you, are you?"

He expected Adam Jones to vehemently deny it in frustration, but instead, he saw him merely take a sip of the champagne in his hand and reply indifferently, "It’s not impossible."

Finished speaking, he then looked at Elly Campbell with a smile, concealing the thoughts in his eyes, and said, "Even if they’re a pair of worn-out shoes, I will only have you wear them."

James Churchill’s face stiffened. His usually insouciant eyes were, at this moment, swept by various storms. After a while, he glanced at Elly Campbell’s face, dropped a line "Then you’re quite shameless," and turned his head to leave.

Elly Campbell was also stunned by Adam Jones’s response to James Churchill just now.

It wasn’t until James Churchill left that Elly Campbell came back to her senses, recalling what Adam Jones had just said and couldn’t help frowning, choosing to ignore it outright.

"I heard you want to fight for William’s custody rights?" she asked, looking at Adam Jones with a cold countenance.

At her words, Adam Jones’s eyelids lifted faintly as he looked at her. Her indifferent appearance made Adam Jones subconsciously furrow his brows.

Before meeting Elly Campbell again, he was firmly determined to divorce, and even after Harry Hall advised him to think it over, he had made his decision.

But at this moment, as he looked at Elly Campbell’s clear and cold demeanor, and thought of Mark Campbell’s initial words to him, his decision to divorce once again started to waver.

"You could also choose not to divorce, then there would be no issue of fighting for custody," he said quietly, casting his eyes down, not looking at Elly Campbell as if subconsciously avoiding her gaze, a hint of guilt lurking in the depths of his eyes.