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?

career at Starlake to come back here and

hate

anything else, and Leanne could remain cool and detached, but when he brought up those six months in Northwood, there was still something

inside her.

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

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

can’t feel

nerve back into place, striving to stay clear-headed.

it? Whether or not you truly love me, what your relationship with Suzan is, it doesn’t matter

it so calmly, so clearly, that Curtis was filled with a

handful of running

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so fierce it seemed to cut through his entire being every

a long pause, he asked again, “What

Leanne, his eyes locked onto hers, “I crave your

unaffected; her heart skipped a beat at the question. She wasn’t sure if her expression gave anything away, she

its