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

Chapter 170

If it had been three months earlier, maybe Leanne would have been thrilled by those

words.

But now, that phrase which once kept her up at night, trapped within an invisible had

cage,

become something she shied away from.

“I really don’t know. I can’t figure you out, never could,” Leanne said. “You say you love me, but it doesn’t feel like love to me.”

“I don’t love you? Then why did I go to all the trouble to convince you to go to Northwood, learning how to cook for you, serving you hand and foot like you’re royalty? What am I, a domestic god in the making, or just a bored rich kid playing at being a servant?

I panicked when I couldn’t reach you for a few hours, dropping everything at work to come find you? ElitePinnacle was just taking off, gunning for its first major IPO project, and it all fell apart because I walked out.

When Derek White took you into that club room, I was so frantic I kicked down the door. I waited outside your place for half an hour, just to see when Jeremy would leave?

leave a thriving career at Starlake to come back here and start over?”

hate

else, and Leanne could remain cool and detached, but when he brought up those

inside her.

in sweetness, so profoundly happy, they were likely to be unforgettable for a lifetime.

love. But it turned. out to be the biggest mistake

I practically laid my heart bare for you, and you can’t feel it at all?” Curtis’ voice was hoarse, “Leanne, how

exhaled slowly, easing the disrupted nerve back into place, striving to stay clear-headed.

Whether or not you truly love me, what your relationship with Suzan is, it doesn’t matter to me anymore.”

your love.” She said it so calmly, so clearly, that Curtis was filled with

was like a handful of running water, impossible to hold onto.

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on the mountaintop were bone-chilling, the wind so fierce it

pause, he asked again,

front of Leanne, his eyes locked onto hers, “I crave your love. Do

still couldn’t remain completely unaffected; her heart skipped a beat at the question. She

Mountain holding its eternal, distant