My Coldhearted Ex demands a Remarriage by Eva Blackwood

Chapter 206 A faint scoff escaped his lips.

“So, this is what you’ve reduced yourself to? Burning the candle at both ends, treating yourself like some machine.

Do you really think slogging away like this is what success looks like?”

Her jaw tightened.

“It’s none of your business.”

“Oh, it’s my business, all right,” Kristopher retorted, his voice laced with irritation.

“That shady club incident, the chaos outside the bar the other night… Since you left, every mess you’ve landed in has needed my intervention.

Grow up, Carrie.

Life isn’t a game of empty bravado.”

His words sliced through her like shards of ice, and for a moment, she froze.

Then, like a dam bursting, her anger spilled out.

eyes burned as she turned on

night!” she snapped, her voice trembling with

dragged me into that car like I was nothing! I fought to hit them with a beer bottle, fought to defend myself, and still, I couldn’t

voice broke, tears threatening

were you?” she

is, the person who saved me wasn’t you-it

how humiliating that is? I married you to escape him,

have just gone through with it

raw vulnerability hung in the air between

saw her-perhaps

carefully constructed emotional fortress began

detached, who struggled to empathize with emotional displays, felt something unfamiliar

loosened

shoulder, reminiscent of

with your

I won’t interfere.”

seized her moment of freedom, stepping back

don’t want to be