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.”

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

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

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

was just mentioning

he replied coolly. “She

of course, but a few sweet lies were always enough. She had no other experience to compare it to. But her unquestioning trust

and kissed her, and then pushed her away. “That’s

so cold. Mr. Sinclair,” she

Chapter 34

was already walking away, straightening his tie. Then he returned to his booth and slid the

was still by the window, meticulously cutting her steak into neat

night sky, painting brilliant, flecting patterns across the glass. She turned to watch, her eyelashes fluttering

never been particularly fond of Yolanda to begin with. But the sight

seat across from her. “Do

was so obsessed with him. “They’re lovely. I suppose all women are swayed by pretty things like this,

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

she caught the faint, clinging scent of perfume on his

our anniversary? And I’m suffocating under the memory of being drugged and spending those

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

last year, honey. I wish

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

then, his phone buzzed. It was

had seen Yolanda’s 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

claimed she’d been hurt,

often rang just before one lost their grip on something important. Tonight, it was ringing for him. He found he didn’t

and for the first time all evening, a

a bank card across the table toward her. “For

never a dollar more. Now, he was offering six

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