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.”

suggestive posture. “I heard you’ve been cozying up to

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

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

innocent, he replied coolly. “She doesn’t suspect a

and late nights. She’d ask, of course, but a few sweet lies were always enough.

neck and kissed her, and then pushed her away. “That’s enough. I have to

cold. Mr. Sinclair,”

Chapter 34

Then he returned to his booth and slid the

still by the window, meticulously cutting her

painting brilliant, flecting patterns across the glass. She turned

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

across from her. “Do you like the

surprising, and no wonder Sophie was so obsessed with him. “They’re lovely. I

against the tip of her nose. “It’s our wedding

again. This time, she caught the faint,

woman on our anniversary? And I’m suffocating under the memory of being drugged and spending those hours with Ian. I can’t

say on the last anniversary? Oh, right. He hasn’t even been there. He was with Sophie

lips. “Same as last year, honey. I

For some reason,

his phone buzzed. It

Yolanda’s post after finally getting service in the mountains, and she was livid. She’d bombarded Charles with a series of provocative

pained whimper. She claimed she’d been hurt, that there was no hospital nearby, and that she was in

quiet warning bell often rang just before 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

bank card across the table toward

month but never a dollar more.

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