Chapter 77

Alexander POV

I gripped the steering wheel tighter than I intended, knuckles white as I sped down the empty streets. My mind was a mess, replaying everything from last night. It had been perfect.almost too perfect. Christiana had melted in my arms, her soft moans, the way she looked at me… I thought, for a moment, that we were healing, that maybe, just maybe, we could find our way back. But this morning? God, it was like waking up from a beautiful dream only to be slapped by reality.

The way she looked at me, like I was a mistake, like she regretted every touch… It made my blood boil. “What the hell, Christiana?” I muttered under my breath, jaw clenched. Last night had felt like something out of a fairytale, something I’d dreamed about for five long years. But this inorning? It was a nightmare I couldn’t escape from.

I shook my head, the memory of her cold voice stabbing me in the chest.

“Leave, Alex. Just go, she’d said, her eyes colder than I’d ever seen them. It wasn’t just the words. It was the way she threw them at me like I was nothing.

1 stayed. Cooked for her. I watched over the kids. But she didn’t care. She didn’t care.

She had treated me like I was the one who’d done something wrong.

I could still see the way her face twisted in anger, how she practically spat the words at me. I’d been patient. I’d let her get it all out, but every word felt like a blow, knocking the breath out of me. And then, when she finally pushed me away, it felt like the final nail in the coffin.

my hand against the steering wheel, my heart pounding in my chest. “What the hell was that!I asked myself, voice tight with

be angry, to feel hurt, but not like this. Not after the

She was a different person this morning, cold, cruel, and distant. “Damn it, Christiana,” I muttered under my breath, How could she flip like that? It wasn’t just rejection. It was as if she wanted

words that hurt it was the look in her eyes, I had seen that look before…years ago,

who would beg for her attention. I’d done everything I could,

tugging at me, something I didn’t want to admit. The pain. The- disappointment. I’d allowed myself to hope, to believe that maybe we could fix

the thoughts away. “No, growled to myself “No more I wasn’t going to let her

was, despite everything, she

down the highway, the cool wind rushing through the cracked window, I couldn’t shake the thought that maybe it was time to give Christiana the space she’d been so desperately pushing for. Space, for

ahead but barely seeing

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changed. I had tried, harder than I ever had before, to make

it would never be

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