Chapter 0033

Chapter 0033

Hannah

Seeing Zoe kiss Noah’s cheek so tenderly, so lovingly, had filled me with a rage that made me want to lash out. I wanted to scream, cry, yell and throw things, even resort to my purging pills once more despite the fact th

they had long since been flushed down the toilet.

But I didn’t do any of those things. I don’t love Nooh anymore, I kept telling myself. It shouldn’t matter. Right now, my only goal was to gain enough approval so that when our divorce began, I would have a leg up on the matter.

It was sometime around the afternoon that I caught Noah once again as he was walking out of the banquet hall where tonight’s gala was to be held. He was absorbed in a text on his phone, and almost didn’t even notice me until I literally stepped in his way

“Ahem.”

Noah jerked his head up from his phone and stared at me for a moment. “What is it?” he asked in that usual prickly demeanor of his–a far cry from the sweet words he had said to me last night.

the menu I was holding out to him. “Here’s tonight’s menu. You said you

seemingly caught off guard by my composed demeanor. “Oh. Uh,

ves, let me

me see

between his brows as he read. “You’ve made some last minute changes,” he observed, glancing up at me with a frown. “Why?

shrugged one shoulder lightly. “I may have added a few things based on… cravings.” It was true, this morning, I had

general food cravings now that my body had gotten

frown deepened scowl. “Cravings? Are you trying to be difficult on purpose? This is

Important event, Hannah.”

a tendency to jump to accusations. But

his words dying on his tongue. Carefully keeping my expression neutral, I traced my fingernails lightly along the sensitive skin of his inner arm. A

be proud of me,” I murmured, my voice pitched low so only he could hear. “Giving in said to my cravings, trying

know what I said last night,”

I maintained my cool expression. Noah’s jaw clenched, but I could see the barest flicker of heat in his gaze as it dropped briefly

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