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

Chapter 996:

Noah let go of Hailey just as suddenly as he had choked her, shoving her to the side like some piece of trash.

She crumpled to the floor, clutching her throat as violent coughs racked her body.

Noah’s fingers had left their mark on her skin—a stark reminder of her narrow brush with death.

Jack heaved a huge sigh of relief. He turned to the servants, who had frozen in fear as soon as Noah arrived.

“Why are you just standing there?” he shouted at them. “Move!”

Jack’s voice thundered through the room, his face

jolted to attention, their momentary paralysis shattered. They scattered immediately, footsteps echoing down the hallway as they raced

for air until she finally gulped down a ragged

hair splayed across her

to meet Noah’s towering presence. His eyes bored into hers, glacial and unforgiving, stripped of even a

dissolved, crystallizing instead into a potent mixture of humiliation and bitter

he dare treat her this way? Was precious

twisted across Hailey’s lips—not one of joy, but

each word scraping through her throat yet fortified with the steel resolve of someone

years ago at Rosewood Hospital, you would’ve been nothing but a corpse without me! You owe me—your very existence! That debt follows

her last remaining card to play. With calculated defiance, she thrust her chin upward, her gaze blazing