Chapter 241

Gregory left the words, giving me a look. “What are you waiting for? Let’s go.”

“Okay.”

He was tall with long legs, and his strides were wide. I struggled to keep up, hampered by the hem of my cocktail dress.

A forceful grip caught my wrist from behind as we were about to leave the hotel. “Jane!”

I stopped, tuming to face Bryant, his expression cold and forbidding. Calming my emotions, I asked softly, “What’s wrong?”

“What do you want, Mr. Ferguson?” Gregory turned, an eyebrow quirked in question.

Bryant’s eyes were filled with a stormy gloom. “Interfering in marital affairs now, Mr. Ford?”

“No interest in that. Gregory chuckled, “Just a friendly reminder, Mr. Ferguson, bigamy is against the law.”

me away without another

slightly. “Tll wait for you in the car.”

his pace. He dragged me to a deserted area, slamming me against a wall. His eyes, deep and cold, suddenly flared with anger. “You’re close to Gregory?”

an

the wall sent a sharp pain across my shoulder blades, and I retorted,

clean break. I didn’t

came out as if squeezed through clenched teeth. “It doesn’t concern me? I can’t be indifferent

almost laughed. “What do you

voice, usually so deep and captivating, carried bittemess. “You seem

hint of desolation. After loving this man deeply for over eight

head away, a bitter smile on my

interactions with Margaret countless times before. But as he repeatedly favored and chose anyone but me,

happened. Was it when Bryant gave the promotion to Margaret that should have been mine? Was it their playful bickering? Or when he sent me to the ultrasound appointment alone for Margaret? Or the countless times he broke his

blaming and yelling at me. My carefully guarded affection faded more each time until it was all gone. I was

on my shoulder gradually slid down, ending with a simple assurance, “There’s nothing

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