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

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.

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

against his scornful words, any lingering sentiment swiftly eroding

away.

chase whoever you want, and I

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

with a chilling promise, “Don’t worry. I’ll stick to the

another discordant parting.

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

that followed, he was nowhere to

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

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

for someone as hyper as Selina. Seizing the opportunity when Penelope went home, she sent the nurse

navigating the elevator with her cast-laden leg, she managed to find the

advertising job, came to wait for Leanne to finish work

me finish this patient

in the hallway waiting when she heard someone ask,

wheelchair towards her, only

office, Joy shouted, “Dr. Castillo, you’ve got a

Selina was speechless.

the ‘mummy’ in question. If it weren’t for her broken leg, she might have leapt out of the wheelchair in protest.