His Heart Is Now Elsewhere

Chapter 7

During the interval of waiting for the red light, Brennan opened the voice message.

Brittany’s sharp voice came out, “Marlene, I knew you wouldn’t be honest. Are you intentionally playing hide–and–seek now to make him worry? Do you think you can steal him away like this? Dream on! As long as I’m here, I won’t let him treat you nicely! Just you wait, I’ll contact schools abroad right away and have him send you far away!”

Brennan stared at the phone screen in disbelief. Was this still the gentle and pure Brittany that he

had loved?

He was also surprised to find that Brittany had previously sent multiple messages to Marlene, all of which were insults, provocations, or threats!

He grew colder and colder as he scrolled through Brittany’s posts, which were only visible to her. They were all intimate photos of them.

Marlene swallowed these grievances silently and never mentioned them to him.

He didn’t know that in the places he couldn’t see, Brittany treated the girl he had raised with such

care!

to his trust in

help convey things that

for Marlene

ridiculous that he actually believed

inwardly, “Brittany, you damn

Marlene more than once, and the more she denied it, the angrier he became. Every time, he would get very

back now, how could she admit it when she never actually did it

whenever he reprimanded Marlene, she would lower her head and remain silent, without any further

and helpless she must have been at

I’m sorry! You are the one I raised with my own hands; I should have trusted you instead of that wicked woman! I should have faced my feelings

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only then felt that the tightness in his

until the honking continued did he realize that he was still at the intersection, and the light had

green

and quickly drove towards the