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.

mockery, Curtis said, “There are still three

scornful words, any lingering sentiment swiftly eroding

away.

square. You can chase whoever you want, and I can see

as an icy glacier, “You just can’t wait to

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

another discordant parting.

return the whole night. Leanne only found out the next

he

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

get Selina an electric wheelchair. On sunny afternoons,

as Selina. Seizing the opportunity when Penelope went home, she sent

the elevator with her cast-laden leg, she managed to find the ophthalmology office.

came to wait for Leanne to finish work so they could grab dinner together.

patient file,” Leanne said, still

in the hallway waiting when she heard someone ask, “Is

an electric wheelchair towards her, only one eye visible amidst the swathes of gauze.

Castillo, you’ve got a mummy coming

Selina was speechless.

it weren’t for her broken leg, she might have leapt out of the wheelchair in

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