CHAPTER 118: CHAPTER 118: YOU DON’T LOVE ME ANYMORE

After Serena Jennings healed her leg injury, she drove to Serene Meadows Nursing Home.

Audrey Jennings was watering flowers on the window sill. Seeing Serena arrive, she smiled happily.

"Serena, look, our roses are blooming so well."

Serena awkwardly forced a smile and replied, "Yes, it’s all thanks to Mom for taking good care of them."

But these flowers were actually fake, plastic flowers.

Serena knew Audrey was sometimes clear-minded and sometimes confused. She sat down to chat with Audrey, and during the conversation, Audrey brought up Caleb Lockwood.

"Caleb is really a good kid. Last time when I got lost, if it weren’t for him finding me, I might have starved on the streets!"

"What?"

Serena was stunned.

She looked at Audrey and couldn’t see any difference in Audrey’s expression from when she was watering the fake flowers.

"Mom, you remembered wrong. Last time you got lost, the police found you."

Serena was hospitalized at the time, and she wasn’t clear on the details. But it should’ve been the police who found Audrey.

At least no one had told her Caleb found Audrey, and Caleb himself had never said so.

"No, I wouldn’t remember wrong. It was Caleb." Audrey’s tone was certain.

Serena didn’t bother arguing with her mom.

Audrey was a patient, sometimes clear-minded, sometimes confused, blending different memories together, and treating her imagination as reality.

So Audrey’s words couldn’t be fully trusted.

At least regarding this matter, Serena didn’t believe Audrey.

They chatted for a while longer, and Serena realized Audrey loved talking about Caleb. She kept praising his filial piety and excellence.

In fact, only when mentioning Caleb did Audrey’s eyes light up.

"Serena, I miss Caleb. Can you ask him to come see me? By the way, why didn’t you come with him? You know, last time I ran out was because I dreamt you and Caleb divorced, and it scared me terribly..."

Chased by Audrey’s questions, Serena felt guilty and didn’t know how to answer.

Her mom might be the person who least wanted her to divorce.

Even if she told her mom Caleb had someone he liked, and that person wasn’t her.

"Serena, is there really a problem between you and Caleb?"

Audrey took hold of Serena’s hand.

Audrey’s hand was cold.

Serena sighed, pulled out her phone, and dialed Caleb’s number.

The phone rang a few busy tones and was answered.

"Hello, Caleb..."

"Caleb isn’t in the office."

It was a woman’s voice from the receiver.

This voice was not unfamiliar to Serena.

Claire Shaw laughed softly seeing Serena silent.

"What’s wrong, surprised to hear me?"

"..."

"Serena, I don’t understand you. You insist publicly on divorcing Caleb, yet secretly you call him... You’re almost divorced. I advise you to have some dignity, keep your face, and stop calling a man who’s about to be someone else’s husband."

Claire hung up the phone right after speaking, and it was then Caleb pushed open the office door.

"What’s going on?"

Caleb noticed Claire had her hands hidden behind her back.

"Nothing."

Claire put Caleb’s phone down on the desk and then showed him her design product.

"Caleb, look, this is my main piece for the LD Jewelry Fashion Week, it’s the lead in the ’First Love’ theme series..."

Excitedly, Claire opened the jewelry box to show Caleb.

It was a ring.

The main stone was a pink diamond she loved.

The pink diamond was cut into a heart shape and set in a cluster of small diamonds on the ring base.

The design mimicked a clover, but only one petal had a top-quality heart-shaped pink diamond, while the other three had heart-shaped colorless diamonds.

This was Claire’s painstakingly thought-out design.

She knew well that Caleb admired her excellence and believed she genuinely had skills.

Even by skill alone, she wouldn’t lose to Serena.

Originally, she thought Ian Blackwood’s return would make Caleb jealous, prompting Caleb to find her and stay close by.

In high school, Caleb had acted like this.

But days passed without Caleb reaching out to her.

Claire couldn’t understand.

Now, she had Ian pursuing her, and Caleb and Serena were divorcing. Caleb wouldn’t transfer Lockwood Group shares to Serena this time.

Everything should’ve gone in her favor, but she felt Caleb had grown distant recently.

Claire couldn’t determine if it was because of her attending a class reunion behind Caleb’s back, which happened to be Ian’s welcoming party, or some other reason.

Just today, she finished her main exhibit piece for the ’First Love’ series, using it as an excuse to approach Caleb.

On one hand, she wanted to gauge Caleb’s mood.

On the other, she wanted to showcase her excellence to him.

Claire had full confidence in her design, unlike at the last New Star Jewelry Design Contest where she lost to Serena, who stole the spotlight.

To Claire’s expectation, Caleb praised her design highly.

But besides the design, Caleb didn’t say much else.

Last time, her parents wanted Caleb to invest in Northriver’s land acquisition, but Caleb didn’t mention that either.

"Caleb..."

Claire couldn’t stand it anymore; she didn’t want to keep guessing.

"Can you tell me why..."

Seeing Claire’s eyes redden, complemented by her innocent eye makeup, she looked pitiful.

"I mean, why have you been so cold to me these days? Like... like you’re intentionally distancing yourself... Caleb, did I do something wrong? Or... don’t you love me anymore?"

Claire’s voice trembled; her gaze could soften any man’s heart.

Caleb was silent for a moment, sighed, and directly asked, "Do you know about Ian asking Serena to transfer the ten percent of Lockwood Group shares she’d get post-divorce?"

Claire blinked, surprised, but only shook her head.

"I don’t know. Ten percent shares... is what you promised to give Serena after the divorce?"

"Yes."

"I really didn’t know. It’s the first time I’m hearing about this..."

"But Serena said you instructed Ian to use her friend’s job as leverage to make her hand over the shares."