My Coldhearted Ex demands a Remarriage by Eva Blackwood

Chapter 6 Despite the throbbing pain in her leg, Elizabeth gathered her strength and said, “Put me down.”

Elijah, however, ignored her, his eyes scanning her leg wrapped in bandages.

His brow furrowed slightly.

“What happened to your leg? Is this some elaborate scheme to win me back?”

At his words, a bitter laugh escaped Elizabeth.

It seemed he saw her as simply craving attention, and when she failed to get it, she had likely fabricated a story to pull him back, dramatizing her injury just to capture his focus.

With a blank expression, she answered untruthfully, “It’s a beauty treatment that shouldn’t get wet.”

“Why did you suddenly decide to go for such a treatment?” Elijah asked, his voice casual as he carried her outside, no longer pressing the issue.

His frame was large, and through his thin shirt, she could distinctly feel the warmth of his body and the firm outline of his chest muscles.

The closeness created an awkward tension for Elizabeth, who had resolved to end things once and for all.

Her voice rose involuntarily, sharper now.

“Oh, since when have you cared about these little details, Mr.

James?”

For the first time, Elijah saw her use biting sarcasm; it struck him as oddly amusing.

responded, “You’re my wife, it’s

There was a somber

never truly seen

if I died, you wouldn’t

very moment, Elijah had been absorbed, lost in moments with his first love, too preoccupied to listen to

Elijah’s eyes widened before

this afternoon? Maybe I’ve been too lenient with you lately, and it’s

Elizabeth froze, taken aback.

accusing her of being

their marriage had

merely a business arrangement, a woman who had traded her freedom for

than a transaction, yet she had foolishly fallen deeply

of romance, the one who fell

emotions brushed aside as trivial, a suffocating knot tightening in her

jerking her head to the side, her

effortlessly carrying her to the bed before releasing his

support disappeared, her heart skipping a

her bathrobe slipping dangerously, threatening to fall away with any slight

Elijah gazed down at her, a sly,

go, didn’t you? So why

glittering like a

depths, Elizabeth

like this, she was tricked into thinking he