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.”

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

smirk playing on her lips. “After a man like you, everyone else is a letdown, event celebrities. But he’s… entertaining. Besides, I invested

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

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

coolly. “She doesn’t

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

her, and then

cold. Mr.

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was already walking away, straightening his tie. Then he returned to his

the window, meticulously cutting her steak

painting brilliant, flecting patterns across the glass. She turned

with. But the sight of her, so innocent and captivated by something

from her. “Do

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

tapped the rim against the tip of her nose. “It’s our wedding anniversary. Don’t you have anything to

eyelashes fluttered again. This time, she caught the faint, clinging scent of

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

right. He hasn’t even been there.

last year, honey. I wish every

For some reason, the words left him strangely

phone buzzed. It was

She’d bombarded Charles with a series of provocative photos, but he hadn’t

this call, her voice a pained whimper. She claimed she’d been hurt, that there

grip on something important. Tonight, it was ringing for him. He

from Yolanda, watching her slowly finish her steak, and for the first

dinner, he slid a bank card across the table toward her. “For

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

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