Chapter 256

Rosalie said calmly, "Nobody's perfect. Everyone has their flaws. I make mistakes, too. No matter what we're already divorced. We should go our separate ways and have nothing to do with each other. I don't want to end up like your parents."

The thought of his parents made Theodore's eyes dim.

"My dad was right. I ended up walking the same path he did."

Rosalie's heart tugged. She hung her head low, and fell silent.

People never learn their lesson. Many things happened in the past to prove that what they did was a mistake that would result in painful. consequences, yet those who come after them continue insisting on doing the same things.

Perhaps that was a wicked streak in humans, carved in their genes. The more they know it's a mistake, the more they would choose to do

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That was the way to go, according to their logic.

"But there is a difference," Theodore went on to say. "My mother really loved my father back then, and it was precisely because of her deep love for him that she ended up broken-hearted and depressed. But things are different for us, Rose. You don't love me, which is why you can be even happier after divorcing me. You once said that you had enough of such a marriage. You're now free."

stunned, at a loss for words.

brows as he stared at Rosalie, who remained silent. "You don't love me, do you?

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parents."

truth of his statement upon seeing the look in Rosalie's eyes. Rosalie gripped the hem of her shirt tight, and clenched her fists. She could feel

thought, 'I loved you for so many

if I told you that I love you? Would you

you the truth, I'd look as

rather preserve my dignity and give you a good reason to divorce

her and

me?"

shone like burning flame, reflecting his eagerness to hear her answer. Her hesitation made his heart race. Rosalie saw the urgency in

want her to say that she loved him? Would he have a change. of heart

times she had mistakenly thought so

cared for her, but ended up

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