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

up last night!” she snapped, her voice trembling

how terrified I was? They drugged me, and 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

broke, tears

were you?”

who

you to escape him, and now

I should have just gone through with it and

raw vulnerability hung in the air

her-truly saw her-perhaps for

within his carefully constructed emotional fortress

who had always remained detached, who struggled to empathize with emotional displays,

loosened

patted her shoulder, reminiscent of how

your acting, your

I won’t interfere.”

her moment of freedom, stepping back

don’t want to