Nick was busy working but scoffed when he saw her walk in. “Finally realized you were wrong?”
“Yes,” Mia said flatly. If he said she was wrong, then she would let it be. She was too tired to argue, especially since it would all be over in a few days.
“If you’d figured that out sooner, none of this would’ve been necessary!” Nick said irritably, his tone sharp. He pulled a finely crafted gift box out of a drawer and tossed it onto the desk in front of her. “Here’s a belated birthday gift. Open it.”
Mia wanted to say it wasn’t necessary, but her instincts told her that if she refused, Nick would only get angry.
She still needed him to sign the divorce papers, so it was better not to provoke him. Silently, she accepted the gift without a word.
Just then, Nick’s phone rang. Out of the corner of her eye, Mia saw the caller ID—Xena.
Nick glanced at her, then pulled a pair of headphones from the drawer and put them on.
He answered the call, and the cold indifference in his eyes was immediately replaced with a smile. His tone softened, a stark contrast to how he spoke to Mia.
Mia placed the divorce papers on the desk in front of him. “Please sign these.”
Without so much as glancing at them, Nick scribbled his signature and went right back to his call with Xena, his voice warm and affectionate.
Mia frowned slightly, hesitating before asking, “Aren’t you going to check what you just signed?”
“No need,” Nick replied impatiently. “It’s just about hiring foreign specialists for your mom’s treatment, right? Take care of it yourself. If there’s anything that needs my signature, just give it to Assistant Wilson to pass on to me. And stop calling me over nothing. Do you have any idea how many important calls I missed last time because you wouldn’t stop blowing up my phone?”
