After the CEO Divorced Me, He Wants Me Back by Riverflow

Chapter 555

"Do you know why Aaron found you both so quickly?" Lucas asked.

Upon hearing this, Aveline stopped in her tracks.

She slowly turned around, her face filled with disbelief. "It was you?"

Lucas smirked. "That's right."

He approached Aveline with a cigarette between his fingers. Seeing her face pale from shock, he gently caressed it. His tone was low and soft, like a lover's whisper, but his words were incredibly cruel.

"Did you really think I'd let anyone who could keep you company slip away? Face it, Aveline. Selena's trapped, and so are you. There's no escape for either of you."

Aveline was furious. She raised her hand to slap him, but Lucas caught her wrist effortlessly. He looked into her angry eyes.

"Aveline, things between us won't end so easily. Have you heard the phrase 'till death do us part"?"

rage, her

would he do

could have

were so close, just a little bit

saw Selena as her chance to escape, her hope for freedom. But Lucas had personally clipped the wings that might have

he be

up in her eyes. "Lucas, why are you doing this to me?

Lucas' heart, burning a hole through it, searing

intense, his tone still soft. “Because I don't want to let you go. I want you by my side always, Aveline. I've never been a good person. Your expectations of me were too high, and the

him away and ran

had played a

relationship would end, and they would have

love, even if being together meant mutual torment,

before her blurred as tears streamed down her face. She felt powerless against Lucas, unable to change

let go, and he wouldn't let