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 her,

things that he, as an uncle, found inconvenient to say.

be responsible for Marlene in front of him and spoke

ridiculous that he

inwardly, “Brittany, you damn woman!”

than once, and the more she denied it, the angrier he became. Every time,

when she never

that whenever he reprimanded Marlene, she would lower

at that time; her only uncle didn’t trust

should have trusted you instead of that wicked woman! I should have faced my feelings earlier, so you wouldn’t have suffered so much

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only then felt that the tightness in

that he was still at the intersection, and the light had already turned on.

green

matter and