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

eyes scanned the lines quickly; they were penned by a colleague from the marketing department, one with whom she had previously clashed. The colleague confessed to having taken those photos

from the company swiftly followed, denouncing the colleague’s actions and imposing a strict penalty, while also issuing a stern warning against the spread of

what she had

as if she had been slapped hard across the face. The sensation seared

that

the blame on an innocent colleague rather than making their marriage public, simply to shield Kyla from the scandal of being the

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

than any cut could ever be. The

dreams on hold just to stand

was

escaped her lips,

lingered at her desk, lost in thought. The soft luminescence of her computer screen cast ghostly