Between Ruin And Resolve: My Ex-Husband’s Regret

Chapter 19

Chapter 19:

Sadie’s mouth fell open in shock. “What happened?” she asked, her voice tinged with disbelief.

“You should check the group chat,” a colleague said, pointing towards Sadie’s computer with a sheepish expression.

As Sadie turned to her screen, a cautious hope began to bubble inside her. Could it be that Noah had made their marriage public?

Was he ready to embrace their relationship openly, to declare their bond to the world?

Heart pounding with a mix of nerves and urgency, Sadie started her computer, clicking into the work group chat without hesitation. For a brief, hopeful second, her lips curved into a tentative smile.

But it faltered, then froze entirely.

The pinned message wasn’t the happy announcement she had longed for.

it was a somber

whom she had previously clashed. The colleague confessed

imposing a strict penalty, while also issuing a

it wasn’t what she

like a cold wave, leaving a sting as if she had been slapped hard across the face.

all you want, but at the end of the day, it’s Noah’s feelings that decide everything.” Kyla’s words haunted her, tightening around her heart like

making their marriage public, simply to shield Kyla from the

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fists at her sides, her nails digging crescents into her palms. Yet, she felt numb to

in her heart dwarfed any physical discomfort, a deep, throbbing wound far more grievous than any cut could ever be. The

putting her own dreams on hold just to

was her

laugh escaped her lips, tinged with

the horizon and the office buzz dwindled to a hushed stillness, Sadie lingered at her desk, lost in thought. The soft luminescence of her computer screen