Chapter 36

Her gaze held him in a pool of calm and clear light, brimming with deep and unabated longing.

It had been ages since she had looked at him that way. Or, to be precise, she had never looked at him with such tenderness.

Curtis was momentarily taken aback, his eyes softening as the corners of his mouth. curled up slightly, “Why the lovestruck gaze?”

“We should get a divorce,” Leanne said plainly.

That sentence had been rehearsing in her mind ever since Jennifer had first approached her, echoing over and over.

Perhaps due to her emotional immunity, voicing it out felt like a burden lifted, despite the waves of pain that surged in her chest like a flooding tide.

Letting Curtis go from her heart was no easy task.

His smile faded, replaced by a mysterious stare that lingered on her for a long time.

“There’s less than three weeks left until our three-year agreement is up,” Leanne reminded

him.

“Is this what you’ve been meaning to talk to me about all this time?” Curtis asked.

She nodded in confirmation.

“There are still three

words, any

away.

chase whoever you want, and I can see

an icy glacier, “You

promise, “Don’t worry. I’ll

discordant parting.

night. Leanne only found out the next morning

days that followed, he was nowhere to be seen.

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as ever. After two days in bed, she was climbing the walls,

had no choice but to get Selina an electric wheelchair. On sunny afternoons, she’d wheel Selina out for some fresh

someone as hyper as Selina. Seizing the opportunity when Penelope went home,

the elevator with her cast-laden

for Leanne to

patient

when she heard

maneuvering an electric wheelchair towards her, only one eye visible amidst the swathes

shouted, “Dr. Castillo, you’ve got a mummy coming

Selina was speechless.

a moment for Selina to realize she was the ‘mummy’ in question. If it weren’t for her broken leg, she might

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