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.

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

against his scornful words, any lingering sentiment swiftly eroding

away.

can chase whoever you want, and I

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

turned and walked into the bathroom, leaving her with a chilling promise, “Don’t worry. I’ll stick

another discordant

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

followed, he was nowhere to

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climbing the walls, dramatically complaining that she’d start

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

Seizing the opportunity when Penelope went home, she sent the nurse away on an errand and snuck out

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

with her flexible advertising job, came to wait for Leanne to finish work so they

this patient file,” Leanne

tears, Joy sat in the hallway waiting when she heard someone ask, “Is Leanne in there?”

towards her,

Castillo, you’ve got a mummy coming your

Selina was speechless.

Selina to realize she was the ‘mummy’ in question. If it

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