Chapter 0095

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“Violet, the choice is yours–to stay or to leave. Should you stay, you’ll be mine. If you leave, I’ll

ensure you’re compensated.”

Violet, caught in a whirlwind of thoughts, gazed back at him.

Deep down, the idea of being his wasn’t entirely unappealing; she had grown used to his

presence, his assertiveness, temper, sporadic tenderness, his entirety…

Yet he had vowed never to emotionally commit to a woman again, a declaration he repeated this morning for the third time.

Thus, she saw herself as no different from the other women in his past.

“I’ll leave.”

The response elicited a sharp, agonizing sensation in Lucius’s chest. An unfamiliar bitterness filled his mouth. Not even Agatha’s departure had struck him this hard.

“Violet Wickham…” he began. “If this is your decision, I respect it.”

His lack of insistence signaled to her that she was truly dispensable in his eyes.

A sudden, uncontrollable laughter erupted from Violet, contorting her face with its intensity.

Her response alarmed Lucius, who hastily left the room without realizing that her initial

laughter had quickly turned into sobs and that she was continuously crying.

The following day, Violet departed, carrying only her bag and a sizable check.

left without a backward glance, mechanically pushing herself

on her diminishing figure until

Violet

Goodbye, Imperial Palace.

Goodbye, Lucius.

Goodbye!

to regard her experiences there

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returned to the start, where Agatha and Lucius were

fleeting dream.

Violet didn’t head straight to her family home. Instead, she made a detour to the

place

desire to enter Wickham’s residence as she stood at the

and expelled her

headed to

roommate and friend,

back? I thought you wouldn’t.”

who had abruptly left her job to travel,

like this…”

“Who’s here?

situation, a male voice interrupted. A young man in beach shorts appeared,

looking uncomfortable, explained, “I assumed you’d gone

taken over

Violet replied, masking her

Tess.”

of embarrassment and

alone in the expansive world with no place

you, but it’s because

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