Hold My Tear, I’m Getting My Wife Back!

Chapter 28

She spun on her heel, ready to make her exit.

Red-faced and fuming, Selina called out to her retreating figure, “Come off it. Your mess. has nothing to do with me. I just can’t stand you snatching him from Suzan! Suzan and Curtis were childhood sweethearts, head over heels for each other. If they hadn’t broken up, you wouldn’t have had a chance to swoop in and marry him while he was on the rebound.

You might call yourself the adopted daughter of the Richardson family, but let’s face it. Everybody knows you’re someone living in the maid’s room. You can’t even hold a candle to Suzan!”

Leanne’s footsteps halted.

All the scorn and contempt she had endured for two years and all the nights of painful insomnia were laid bare in a raw, painful instant.

“Selina!” Penelope scolded, her usually gentle face stern, “How dare you speak to Dr Castillo like that?”

Then she turned to Leanne with an apologetic tone. “Dr. Castillo, Selina has always been like this, bad-tempered and tactless. Please don’t take it to heart.”

“It’s okay,” Leanne said softly, “She’s right.”

She turned to face Selina, clenching her fist tightly in her pocket until her knuckles turned white, but her expression remained as calm as still water.

“But now that he’s mine, there’s no changing that. Curtis isn’t some prize to be won. He’s a heartless player. If Suzan values him so much, she’s welcome to try and take him back.”

shifted to something behind Leanne, and her face suddenly changed, a mix of

hand twitched, and she turned

the entrance, holding a paper

a sleek charcoal suit, the color casting an icy pallor over

Leanne was indifferent, and his lips curved in a faint, cold smile.

come at a bad time?” He said with a mocking tone, “Talking behind someone’s back? You should at least check your surroundings first. It gets awkward when they hear you

frowned. “What are you doing here?”

casually against the door frame. “I had a hunch

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Chapter 28

in. What tales have my dear

to explain, but what was there to explain?

heartless cad she had

I wrong?” Leanne asked.

the wife of a scoundrel like me must have been so hard on

fingers in her pocket were numb from the tight grip, but she still retorted,

was thick