The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance novel Chapter 359

The little girl’s nickname was Belle. She adored hanging around Marvin, practically his biggest fan.

But the past few days, she’d been keeping her distance.

Because…

“My dad told me I can’t talk to you anymore,” Belle whispered, glancing at Marvin with worried eyes. “He also said that Keen’s dad made it clear—if anyone talks to you, or plays with you, they’re making enemies with the O’Brien family.”

Belle looked around nervously to make sure no one was listening, then leaned in and continued, her voice barely above a whisper: “I asked my mom about it. She said it’s not really about you—Keen’s dad isn’t targeting you. It’s about Keen’s mom. I heard his parents got divorced, and she made his dad really angry.”

She lowered her voice even more. “Since you’re close with Keen’s mom, you’re getting caught in the crossfire.”

Keen and Marvin were infamous for their constant squabbles—everyone at Westwood Academy’s kindergarten knew about them.

Most of the parents already knew that Stella was Mr. Haynes’s ex-wife.

Now that word had spread that Haynes himself had made a public threat, who dared to go against him?

But Neville’s son wasn’t someone to mess with, either.

Luckily, from one of Haynes’s old friends, people learned that this time, Haynes was only targeting his ex-wife. As long as Marvin kept his distance from her, things could go back to normal.

This was Neo-Vespera, after all.

No one wanted to get on Haynes’s bad side—not when he was backed up by Jasper and Foreman, two of the heaviest hitters in the Novaris business world.

When Haynes spoke, people listened.

No one wanted to risk their family’s standing over something so trivial.