Chapter 2922

With no desire to linger, Melissa hurried away.

The check slipped from Marcus’ grasp, fluttering to the floor.

Marcus, taking a moment, stooped to retrieve and tear it in half.

He then moved to the bedside table, picking up the ring.

His fingers traced over it, as if feeling the lingering warmth of Melissa’s touch.

The bed, too, seemed to retain traces of her presence.

But she was gone, driven away by his own actions.

He doubted she would return.

It marked the end of whatever they had shared.

A self-mocking laugh escaped Marcus as he mused on the folly of their relationship.

delusion he

the chill of

clung to her as the

scarce at this hour, and she wasn’t

she walked to

a

glanced at her with a mix of concern and curiosity,

seemed to the cashier that Melissa had probably

a glass of warm water, which she

forties, felt a pang of

she held back from saying

Melissa stepped outside, the

her body occasionally

She hardly noticed.

to the

weighed on

retrieved a diary and birth certificate from

a decisive act,

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