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.

Curtis said, “There are still three weeks. What’s the rush? Found

his scornful words,

away.

none of your concern. Once we’re divorced, we’re square. You can chase whoever

played on Curtis’ lips, his voice sharp as an icy glacier, “You just can’t wait to get rid of me, can you?”

promise, “Don’t worry. I’ll stick to the three-year term, not

another discordant

and didn’t return the whole night. Leanne only found out the next

followed, he was

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hapter 36

After two days in bed, she was climbing the walls, dramatically complaining that she’d start to rot if she lay there

electric wheelchair. On sunny afternoons, she’d wheel Selina

an hour of freedom was nothing for someone as hyper as Selina. Seizing the opportunity when Penelope went home, she sent the nurse away on

her cast-laden

to wait for Leanne to finish work so they could grab dinner

patient

sat in the hallway waiting when she heard someone

towards her, only one

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

Selina was speechless.

for Selina to realize she was the ‘mummy’ in question. If it weren’t for her

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