Chapter 1132:

Dark clouds gathered across Joanne’s features once again as bitterness crept back into her voice. “Yet Haven dangled hope in front of me like a carrot, never giving me a real opportunity to meet Jeffery face to face.”

Joanne’s attention drifted slowly toward Collin, her gaze heavy with unspoken resentment. “News of Collin founding CR Corporation reached us overseas like wildfire. Haven completely lost her composure, pacing like a caged animal while lamenting her rash decision to flee that wedding altar. She kept muttering how different things could have been, how she should have been Collin’s wife from the very beginning.”

Collin didn’t respond immediately. Instead, he reached over, intertwining his fingers with Linsey’s and enclosing her hand gently in his warm palm.

Feeling his touch, Linsey turned her head to meet his gaze—and found it filled with quiet tenderness. Moments later, she heard him murmur with solemn affection, “Darling, don’t let her words get to you. You’re my one and only.”

across her cheeks. She still wasn’t used to his sweet, unexpected declarations—always catching her off guard, always making her heart race. Thankfully, no one else had heard his hushed vow, allowing Linsey to compose herself and

continued her tale as though lost in the past. “Back then, I wasn’t ready to face Jeffery again, but Haven insisted on returning.

to get close to Collin, I couldn’t have her arrange for me to meet Jeffery. I hadn’t even heard about Jeffery’s marriage. I assumed he was still

but firm. “Jeffery actually married Alicia two years

to hold back—she shouted, “Alicia?! How could she possibly be worthy of him? She’s just an ordinary woman, with no background, no status! All because she was a compatible bone marrow donor for Jeffery, she suddenly had the right to marry

didn’t marry Alicia

added, “If that’s what you think of him, your taste

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