Divorce to Destiny: Reclaiming My CEO Husband by Anney GW

Chapter 158

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160 Cutting the Ties (Winona)

I'm sitting at a wooden park table, my fingers tracing the rough surface, trying to focus on anything but the dread pooling in my stomach,

The park is beautiful today-familles laughing, kids playing by the stream, and ducks floating lazily in the clear water. It's the kind of day that should bring peace, but instead, my frayed nerves barely hold me together. Gordon had assured me that Steve would find me and to just sit somewhere amongst other people. Gordon is here as well. I can't see him but I know he is. Knowing that quells the gnawing anxiety.

My phone is recording, hidden in my pocket, ready to capture every word of this twisted reunion. I brace myself for what I know will be an ugly encounter.

The wind rustles through the trees, and I catch sight of him walking toward me. He's thinner but well dressed and that same smug smirk twists his lips. His presente is a shadow, darkening the brightness of the day. ach

"Well, well," Steve says as he approaches, his voice laced with condescension. "If it isn't my bougie

daughter."

I steel myself, taking a deep breath, "What do you

want?"

He takes a seat across from me, leaning back like he owns the place. "Straight to the point, huh? Always so serious. I figured you'd want to catch up, see your old man before I disappear for good."

"I have nothing to catch up on with you," I reply, my voice steady. "You're a part of my life I'm ready to

leave behind."

that, but here you are.

of the table, trying to keep my composure. Memories of my childhood flood back-the stench of unwashed

while other kids

I had anything decent was when the school stepped in with uniforms and

on the streets, a pathetic prop in his begging schemes. I was just a tool to make people feel

the way they looked at me like I was something to be pitied, not a child who deserved love

much as they pitied me, no one ever stepped in to help. No one wanted to get involved. Not until i did so well at school, I got a scholarship and best of all,

alone or

so I didn't

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say, my voice firm. "You dragged me

from strangers while I went hungry and cold

he covers it quickly. "I did

did what you had to do to survive," I repeat, disgust curling in my stomach. "But what about me, Steve? I was a child. I deserved a childhood, not a life spent begging on the streets and going home to a drugged-out mother and a father who saw me as nothing but

forward, his eyes narrowing. "You think you're better than me now,

came from."

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