A Perfect Lie Hides Behind My Billionaire Marriage (reese and hudson)

Elias' face turned ugly as he stared intensely at Cole, as if he wanted to kill him.

From the moment he saw the way Ava looked at Cole, he knew that she had feelings for him. However, he had never felt as angry as he did now.

Reese's eyes turned red from listening, and she wished she could just kill Chloe! But she understood clearly that all of Ava's pain and sorrow were only because of Cole.

Cole stared blankly at Ava, his expression filled with regret and complexity.

With tears streaming down her face, Ava spoke, "It's a pity... a pity that all the suffering I went through was just my own presumption. I never imagined that before I could confess, you would end up falling for... a woman like her!"

She cast a disgusted glance at Chloe, her expression a mix of anger, pain, and despair. "She took advantage of my inability to confess to you. She claimed the breakfast I made for you as her own. She used my feelings for you in front of Reese lack into white, trampling my feelings into the mud!"

"It's my foolishness, my cowardice, my inability to confess! But even so, I never expected that you... you would believe her over me, Cole. I've had enough. Why has my affection for you become my vulnerability, a weapon for others to use against me, even targeting my friends!"

humbling myself to the point of insignificance. I saw you as a

you for six years, never finding the courage to confess, and ultimately missing out on you. It's my fault, probably my fate. But your misjudgment has shattered any remaining hope I had for you. Cole, I've given up. I'm so tired, and I don't love

exhausted all her strength, and she coughed up a mouthful of

quickly rushed to support her, holding

said, "Ava, what's wrong? Don't scare me. If he doesn't love you, it's his loss. There are plenty of good men out there.

in pain, clutched her

in Elias' arms, her pained expression was pitiful. Her eyes were red, and her voice weak as she spoke, "Reese... my stomach hurts. She... she hit me in the stomach

words, Ava

for Chloe intensified. The phrase "unrequited love" had truly

own changing feelings for Lukas. She felt as though she had fallen into an

but even if she found any, could she really