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?

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

“Leanne, you can hate me, but don’t doubt my love for

remain cool and detached, but when he brought up those six months in Northwood, there was still

inside her.

sweetness, so profoundly happy, they were

before she spoke, “I once believed in your love. But it turned. out to

I practically laid my heart bare for you, and you can’t feel it at all?”

the disrupted nerve back

what your

it so calmly, so clearly, that

running

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the wind so fierce it seemed to cut through his entire being every

he asked

one knee, half-squatting in front of Leanne, his eyes locked onto hers, “I crave your love. Do you love

heart skipped a beat at the question. She wasn’t sure if her

its eternal, distant