Chapter 200

The next part of the video was even harder to watch.

Alex, small hands rifling through the cabinet, finding the bottle of sleeping pills. His little fingers hesitated over two pills before he took out a few more, as if unsure if two would be enough.

Then, with a deep breath, he dropped them all into the glass of water.

Arnold had watched it in silence. He had watched it again.

Now, standing in front of Nora, he didn’t know what to say.

She turned her gaze away, her voice devoid of emotion. “This time, I won’t help him hide it.”

There was no rage in her tone, no dramatic outburst. That’s what made it worse. Nora had already given up.

Nora reached for a folder sitting on the bedside table and held it out to him. Her movements were calm, almost too steady. “I’ve already spoken to my grandmother. She won’t stop us from getting a divorce.”

Arnold’s fingers tightened around the divorce papers, his grip turning his knuckles white.

An unfamiliar resistance welled up inside him, a feeling he hadn’t expected. His entire body felt tense, like a coil wound too tightly.

Why?

Hadn’t this been his decision all along? Hadn’t he been the one to suggest divorce in the first place?

Yet now, with the documents in his hands, the finality of it pressed against him like an invisible weight.

“What are you hesitating about?” Nora’s voice was calm, almost indifferent, but there was an underlying sharpness to it, like the edge of a blade.

his voice to stay level.

tone light but firm, “Alpha Arnold, I’ve wanted

something dark flared in Arnold’s

anger surged through him, hot and unrestrained. He clenched his

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reminded her… their marriage had been born out of manipulation. She had drugged him, seduced him,

and they

astonishment, Nora laughed.

bitter, the kind that scraped against the walls of a shattered

I wanted to seduce you into bed, do you really think

intoxicating, dangerous. Leaning in,

barely a touch, but it sent a jolt through

flared in his eyes, raw and unchecked.

charged. Her expression

“It’s like

put anything

you really wanted to. But you didn’t. Do you know why?”

Arnold remained silent.

to lie to yourself,” she continued, her voice softer now, tinged with something almost like pity. “You resisted our bond from the start. You never wanted to

destiny.”

“So, you told yourself you were forced. That

But his

in her eyes dimming into quiet exhaustion. “For years, I put up with your indifference. I kept hoping, believing that maybe, one day, I could warm you. But

gestured toward the papers between them. “Sign them, Arnold.”

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