After She She Stopped Loving Him

Chapter 34

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.”

heard you’ve

on her lips. “After a man like you, everyone else is a letdown, event celebrities. But he’s… entertaining. Besides, I invested in a show backed by your Starlight Entertainment. Consider it

Five minutes had passed. “I’ll make it

his tie around her finger. “Someone was just mentioning his anniversary, no? Poor girl, it must be exhausting being married

innocent, he replied coolly.

left traces all the time–perfume, lipstick, and late nights. She’d ask, of course, but a few sweet lies

and kissed her, and then

Mr. Sinclair,”

Chapter 34

tie. Then he returned to his booth

the window, meticulously cutting her

She turned to watch, her eyelashes

conscience. He’d never been particularly fond of Yolanda to begin with. But the sight of her,

seat across from her. “Do you like the

her hand. This was surprising, and no wonder Sophie was so obsessed with him. “They’re lovely. I suppose all women are swayed

up his wine glass and gently tapped the rim against the tip of her nose. “It’s our wedding anniversary. Don’t

This time, she caught the faint, clinging scent of perfume on his sleeve-

memory of being drugged and spending

the last anniversary? Oh, right. He hasn’t even been there. He was with Sophie and talked to

last year, honey.

reason, the

then, his phone buzzed. It

the mountains, and she was livid. She’d bombarded Charles with a series of provocative photos, but he hadn’t

been hurt, that there was no hospital nearby,

just before one lost their grip on something important.

her steak, and for the first time all evening, a strange sense of calm settled over

slid a bank card across the table toward her. “For your studio

always given her sixty thousand a month but never a dollar more. Now, he was offering six million all

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