Chapter 56

“Okay.”I took a seat beside him, trying to meet his piercing, clear gaze, and found myself growing more and more uncomfortable.

In the vast study, it was just Timothy and me, and Gary, who was making coffee on the side.

Sure enough, Timothy started, “So, you’re still going for the divorce?”

My heart sank. He had seen right through me; hiding it was futile.

“Yeah… How did you know?”

He sighed but wasn’t angry about being deceived. “You, always so independent and stubborn, never showed much on your face, but those eyes of yours, when have they ever looked away from him? But tods.

you haven’t given him a single glance.”

There was a note of regret in his words.

Hearing that, I felt a lump in my throat and couldn’t say a word.

Indeed, loving someone is something you can’t hide, even if you cover your mouth, it will shine through your eyes.

see it clear as day, yet Bryant thought I had feelings

or never caring enough?

my bitter emotions, my throat tight with words that eventually all condensed

Gary to serve me coffee. “If I

pushed you to marry that boy, you wouldn’t have fallen into this mess.”

your fault… You just made a dream come true for me. Without you, I might have spent my whole life reaching for the stars.

you’ll

and now I can let go, which is much better than never

way, I wouldn’t be forever

with the divorce, but hearing you talk like this, to say more would just show I’m too biased towards Bryant. You should know, in my eyes, you’re no different from my own granddaughter. Even without the

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last words were said with such

was a promise, and it gave

was choked

inscrutable. “Do you know why I never wanted Margaret or her mom to marry into

“Why?”

He signaled Gary

out a leather-bound folder, and handed it

a look,” he

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