After Divorcing my Captain Husband

Chapter 33: Duty

"Hey, Lucy asked, "Trouble with Chloe lately? Is that why you look so tired and distracted?""

Michael snapped back to reality. "It's nothing. Just thinking about tomorrow's flight."

Lucy didn't press further, simply asking, "So, you coming to eat?"

Michael glanced at the takeout box and cracked a rare smile.

"No, you go ahead and eat. Chloe brought me some food." Lucy froze.

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She stood frozen for a long moment before taking a deep breath.

"Never mind. It's a bit late for the cafeteria now, and I'm not that hungry anyway. Let's just go over the key points for tomorrow's meeting."

Lucy forced a smile, hoping Michael would notice her silent struggle and sacrifice.

But Michael totally missed her point. "Alright, I'll let everyone know in the work chat later."

Lucy felt really uncomfortable being brushed off like that.

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She hesitated for a moment and said, "Michael, everyone just saw Chloe getting close to you. This is still the office. Chloe shouldn't be doing that."

"I'm worried the colleagues will gossip about you and Chloe. With evaluations coming up, what if this messes up your

assessment?"

ahead and

distracted, Lucy wisely chose not to press further and

stepped outside,

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out of Paramount Airlines, her smile vanishing in

cooking all morning just to

only did I fail, but I almost got

crazy idea did Candy come up with

said the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. What

I actually bought it.

out her phone, typed a few lines in

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send button. Shoving the phone back into her bag, she hailed a cab and

"If I do this again,

lost in thought, her phone buzzed. Chloe unlocked

photo of his food

you've quit, come by every day and bring me

commanding tone made Chloe laugh

he ask me to

moved faster than her brain.

duty as my wife. Do your

her phone aside, thinking, "Screw this duty! He's totally

car, watching the scenery blur past, thinking

three years of marriage, Chloe

Michael never ate it. He said her food was as

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was.

just BS! He said it