Love's Bitter Edge (Eva and Leonard)

Chapter 323

Chapter 323 A New Opportunity

The moment I received the divorce certificate, I noticed Leonard swallow several times as f he wanted to say something. Yet, he didn't utter a single word. He sat quietly without reaching for the certificate. Looking at the divorce certificate, I felt an overwhelming sense of relief.

I said nothing and turned to leave the county clerk's office with Leonard trailing behind me.

"Eva" he called out to me, his voice thick with emotion.

"Are we still friends?"

"No." I shook my head with a smile. We were no longer anything to each other. It was hard to say who owed whom. The mess of our relationship felt impossible to untangle

But at this moment, it felt like a clean slate. A fresh start didn't seem so difficult, after all.

I waved my hand at him. "Let's just pretend we never knew each other. I'm leaving."

"Eva!" He stepped before me, and I could see the tears brimming in his eyes.

My heart tightened at that moment

Leonard rarely cried. Even during the hardest times, he had held back his emotions. He had lost a lot of weight, and he didn't seem to be in a sound mental state. He had tried to reach me many times this past month, but I never answered

He didn't know I was hospitalized, and I couldn't leave the hospital. Since my second relapse, Leonard had never come to visit me. I wondered if it was some land of cosmic mistake that he remained unaware of my situation. Perhaps it was tate's way of allowing us to part ways.

long in theory but short in

on everything that had transpired between us over the years and suddenly thought that separation might

to lead to being together? There

up

reached out to take my hand, but Amelia's voice broke through just then. "Leo, are you done

starting to show, and she was wearing maternity

wasn't unattractive, but her perpetually cold demeanor had always

that her outfit matched Leonard's. They

step back. "Let's

be on a flight

return

I visited Manovia was with my mom. And this time,

little time with me.

had been on my own. Even when I was married to Leonard, he had spent so little tim But

I checked into the hotel, I received a video call

seems to have lost his mind since

of an hour or tw Emma rambled on about what happened on the day of our divorce. Leonard had a series of projects fall

us going to the county clerk's office

it seemed I was the only one leaving despondently, while

1 merely

which seemed

"Why aren't you

concerned? Do