After Divorcing my Captain Husband

Chapter 51: Nightmare

Seeing her so upset, Michael felt his own heart ache.

She never told him any of this.

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"Lucy had it all. Dad spent all his money on her overseas education, leaving Mom and me with just debts. When Mom got sick, those debts fell on me. I thought getting married would mean support, but Lucy stole him from me too."

Maybe he didn't take over-maybe he was Lucy all along.

Chloe mumbled a few more words, but the booze won out and she passed out cold."

Seeing her curled up on the huge bed, Michael felt a deep pang of sorrow.

He'd never noticed how tiny she was before, like she was just skin stretched over bones.

Michael rubbed his temples, still processing what Chloe had just said.

Her pitiful act when she got drunk almost had him fooled.

Back when he spent all that time with Lucy abroad, she was nothing like Chloe described-always fighting over everything.

Chapter 51: Nightmare

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was a standout talent, never wasting the Nelson family's money on fun. Instead, she focused on her studies and excelled. That's why she's now

words

them lying?" he

then, the person on the bed started to

He called

up, he ordered, "Get her some hangover

left,

escape. After tucking her in with a blanket, he headed

damp cloth. Chloe, half-asleep, finally began to feel a

her pajamas from the

hangover remedy. He propped Chloe up, letting

you crash,

up. She felt

she was rudely awakened. With a groan, she turned

patient,

on, just take

soothed by

to drink half the bowl of medicine, she started causing

more.

choice but to help

by the floor-to-ceiling window, dialing Ethan. "Unlock

dead of night, that single sentence nearly threw

rubbed his eyes and

The call dropped.