After She She Stopped Loving Him

Chapter 34

Chapter 34

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Yolanda was seated by the window with Charles. Then she opened Sophie’s post, enlarging the photo to lay it side–by–side with the real–life scene before her. It was a perfect match.

A faint smile touched her lips. She took a sip of juice, snapped a photo, and posted it to the private Twitter account Sophie followed. If Sophie keeps clinging to Charles, she thought, ‘he won’t have any time left for

me.

Then Charles’s phone buzzed when their food had just arrived. He took his phone and got up briskly. “I need

to take this.”

Yolanda didn’t ask anything. She simply bowed her head and focused on the food quietly.

Charles slipped out into the hallway, phone in hand. But before he could find a quiet spot, an arm reached out from the next booth and pulled him inside.

There was Rachael, who only moments before had been all sharp edges, now wrapping her arms around his neck and leaning in for a kiss.

He tilted his head away, a faint glint of amusement in his eyes.

Rachael pouted, tracing idle circles on his chest with one finger. “What’s this? Staying loyal to the wife, Mr. Sinclair?”

Charles stood tall, his features strikingly handsome under the soft lighting. “It’s our anniversary,” he said simply.

Rachael’s eyebrow arched in understanding. Anniversary rules: no funny business. She sighed dramatically, “Fine. And here I thought I’d get to steal you for a minute.”

gaze drifted over her suggestive posture. “I heard you’ve been cozying

smirk playing on her lips. “After a man like you, everyone else is a letdown,

Five minutes had passed. “I’ll make it up

eyes glittered as she twisted his tie around her finger. “Someone was just mentioning his

he replied coolly. “She

and late nights. She’d ask, of course, but a few sweet lies were always enough. She had no other experience to compare it to. But her

her, and then pushed her away. “That’s enough. I

cold. Mr.

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straightening his tie. Then he returned to his booth and

by the window, meticulously cutting her steak

patterns across the glass. She turned to watch, her eyelashes fluttering as a delighted smile spread across her

of Yolanda to begin with. But the sight of her, so innocent and

seat across from her. “Do you like

her hand. This was surprising, and no wonder Sophie was so obsessed

and gently tapped the rim against the tip of

the faint, clinging

smelling of another woman on our anniversary? And I’m suffocating under the memory of being drugged and spending those hours with Ian. I can’t even talk about him. God,

He hasn’t even been there. He was with Sophie and talked to me on

last year, honey. I wish every

brow furrowed. For some reason, the words left him strangely

phone buzzed. It was a call

post after finally getting service in the mountains, and she was livid. She’d bombarded Charles with a series of provocative photos, but he hadn’t responded. ‘Is he

claimed she’d been hurt, that there was no hospital nearby, and that she was in agony

one lost their grip on something important. Tonight, it was ringing for him. He found

slowly finish her steak, and for the first time all evening, a strange sense of calm

dinner, he slid a bank card across the

a dollar