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.

still

words, any lingering

away.

we’re divorced, we’re square. You can chase whoever you want, and I can see whoever

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

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

another discordant

shower, Curtis left and didn’t return the whole night.

days that followed, he was nowhere to

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the walls, dramatically complaining that she’d start to rot if she lay there any

to get Selina an electric wheelchair. On sunny afternoons, she’d wheel Selina out for some fresh air.

went home, she sent the

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 could

patient file,” Leanne said, still

the hallway waiting when she

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

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

Selina was speechless.

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

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