There He Is Again My Ex Husband by Emily Jenkins

Phil had been living without his parents since childhood, and they rarely saw each other. Therefore, he had little affection for his
parents. A few years ago, the old Mrs. Henderson was ill and Phil tried many times to call his parents, Trevon and Cara, to come
back and spend more time with the old Mrs. Henderson. However, they turned his request down and kept burying themselves in
the so-called career. Since then, Phil had been resentful of them.
In his opinion, money was far less important than the lives and health of his beloved ones.
Besides, at that time, Trevon and Cara had achieved great success in their career. With a great career, they were not short of
money. Busy working was just their excuse.
Phil had been successful in his business, too. Even if Trevon and Cara left behind all their careers abroad and went back
penniless, Phil could let his parents continue to live a good life.
Phil believed that they were just unwilling to come back and accompany the old lady.
Whenever Phil showed his hatred towards his parents, the old Mrs. Henderson, lying on the hospital bed, enlightened him each
time. She said that Trevon and Cara had been living abroad since they got married, and Cara had seldom spent time with her, so
they must have felt awkward and uncomfortable coming back and staying with her. Although the old Mrs. Henderson comforted
him with these words, her unconscious dismay that her face betrayed severely hurt Phil.
The old Mrs. Henderson lived a pretty bitter life. Her husband, Phil’s grandfather, passed away young, and so the old Mrs.
Henderson raised Trevon, Phil’s father, alone, and finally sent him to study abroad.
Later, the old Mrs. Henderson brought up her grandson, Phil.
To Trevon, she had done her utmost.
But her selfless dedication was not rewarded by seeing her son on her deathbed.
Phil knew, it was all Cara’s fault that Trevon failed to go back for a final glimpse of his mother.
At the very beginning, the old Mrs. Henderson disliked Cara and slightly objected to their marriage, because she thought Cara
cared too much about fame and success and her son could not handle such a strong, powerful woman.
But she finally accepted Cara since Trevon was so in love with Cara. And Cara disliked the old Mrs. Henderson because of her
previous comments. Probably, it was Cara’s idea to let Trevon stay abroad for years and years since she was reluctant to take

care of the old Mrs. Henderson.
On the surface, Trevon had been struggling for their career with Cara; in fact, his capacity was nowhere near to Cara’s.
Generally, Cara was credited with making their company as successful as it was today. So, Trevon had no say in company affairs
or family affairs.
Phil could stand them being ungrateful at ordinary times but would never forgive them for deliberately missing out on the old Mrs.
Henderson’s remaining days. Phil could never forget seeing the hope in the dying lady’s eyes fading away bit by bit and finally
turning into utter despair.
Despite Trevon’s repeated declaration that they did not miss the day on purpose, Phil asserted they did it deliberately, because
he, as a lawyer, had investigated them before and found evidence.
Trevon and Cara insisted that they failed to go to the airport on time due to a client’s late attendance in a contract-signing
meeting. However, according to Phil’s investigation, their contract had been signed smoothly as scheduled; the couple just
dawdled around and missed the flight by intention.
Trevon did not utter a word with his lips tightened when Phil was sneering at them.
Cara beside him huffed, “If I had known you would be such a bad man, I would have wrung your neck as soon as you were
born!”
Phil said mockingly, “You should have done so. You don’t like kids after all. You just use me to stop Grandma from criticizing
you.”
The old Mrs. Henderson had thought Cara overvalued fame and money. She would have been angry with Cara if Cara had not
given birth to a baby for the family. Cara just brought Phil into the world to reassure the old Mrs. Henderson, and thus, her
mission was accomplished.
Cara was so angry at Phil’s words that her whole body was trembling, but there was nothing she could do with him. Over the
years, each of their meetings had ended in such disagreements, and Phil had always refused to forgive them for not returning to
see his grandmother.
“You haven’t planted the seed of goodness and filial piety yourselves, and there’s no way to reap a fruit from me!”
After saying those sharp words to Trevon and Cara, Phil turned and walked away without looking back. He did not want to see
his parents for another second.

He thought his final remark was quite right. They had not set him an example of being grateful to the elderly, and now they
should not expect him to be filial to them.
That was ridiculous!
All his love and devotion were given to his dead granny.
Phil just left them in the company. Trevon and Cara were too ashamed to stay there and walked out of Phil’s company, lips
tightening and looking surly.
Upon going into the car, Cara vented her anger on Trevon, complaining, “Look what you did!
“I told you, don’t come here to ask for an insult, but you insisted that we should come and fix the parent-child relationship. And
now, we are humiliated in front of the whole staff. Now are you satisfied with the result? Are you happy? Can you still hold your
head up and be proud as you did before?”
Trevon tried to ease her anger and said, “He is our son, after all. We depend on him to take care of us in our old age.”
Cara gave a snort of laughter. “You depend on him. Not me. I have enough money to live in a nursing home and pay someone to
take care of me when I am old. I don’t need him.”
Trevon coaxed her in a good temper, “You are right. But his existence makes our life different from the situation where we don’t
have a son.
“How about—”
Cara interrupted his words masterfully, “Do what you like but leave me out of it. I don’t want to talk about him right now.”
Then she put her limited-edition bag on her lap and leaned on the back seat with her eyes closed, not giving him the opportunity
to say anything else. Trevon glanced at her expression of determination and then stopped his words. He drove the car then.
What he originally wanted to say was “how about we have a frank and open talk with Phil”?
They told him the truth that they missed the plane and his mother’s remaining days deliberately and sincerely asked for his
forgiveness.

Trevon was aware that Phil was bigoted and bossy, just like Cara, and they both could be persuaded by reason but not be cowed
by force.
If Trevon and Cara continued to confront Phil and never acknowledged their faults, Phil would never forgive them.
But he would not always sneer at them if they took the initiative to admit their mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
Trevon also knew that it was rather hard to persuade her into acknowledging her being late intentionally.
He was interrupted so his words were unfinished just then. But even though he finished his words, Cara would not agree with
him.
Trevon found himself in a tricky position.