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.

wife, it’s only natural I’d care about your

a somber edge to

never truly seen me

that if I died, you wouldn’t

absorbed, lost in moments with his first love, too

accusation, Elijah’s eyes widened before

anger? Just because I missed your call this afternoon? Maybe I’ve been too lenient with you lately, and

Elizabeth froze, taken aback.

her of being too

their marriage had always been

a business arrangement, a woman

more than a transaction, yet she had foolishly

who fell first always found themselves at

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

jerking her head to the

carrying her to the

felt a sudden jolt as the support disappeared, her heart skipping a beat as

slipping dangerously,

her, a

you? So why hold

and glittering like a midnight lake speckled with stars,

those depths, Elizabeth glimpsed her

this, she was tricked into thinking he