Chapter 248

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The papers were scattered everywhere, and Leanne’s hands trembled with a fury that threatened to engulf her. She clenched her fists, tears welling in her eyes despite her efforts to hold them back.

“Do you find this amusing?”

Curtis rose from the couch and walked over to embrace her, apologizing.

“I wasn’t playing a game with you. That day, I had convinced myself to go through with the divorce. But sitting at that table at the city hall, with each signature, it felt like I was

carving out a piece of my heart. So, when I got to the final document, I couldn’t go through with it.”

“Leanne, I don’t want a divorce.”

Even at the height of their misunderstandings, he couldn’t bear the thought of divorcing her. The idea of becoming strangers was like the cruelest curse.

He had signed countless contracts, the signature “Curtis” becoming a muscle memory effortlessly executed. Yet, he felt signing the divorce agreement was more painful than being skinned alive.

“So, you’ve been deceiving me from the start. You’ve been stringing me along, treating me like a fool for several months?”

been kept out of the loop, all the while she was counting down the days to what she thought would be her

furious she got, the harder it was to suppress

gently cleaned her tears. “I’ve been begging for your mercy. How could I not

to the hope that you might change your mind, hoping this signature would

a monster, damned to

but I’ve tried. I’ve tried

wish I didn’t love you so much. Then I wouldn’t have gotten so upset, saying things that hurt you. I thought about letting you go, but I

embraced her, his warm breath on her eyelids,

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voice grew husky. “Honey, let’s make up,

fight we’ve ever had. It’s been too long.

had called her that in

the grievances she thought she had gotten over in the past three

cheeks, sliding off her jaw, all gathered in Curtis’

felt like she was standing on the edge of a cliff, with deep valleys in front and behind her,

seemed there was no escape, no way out.

the storm of anger, the emotional turmoil plummeted to a low, leaving her

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