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

bring up last night!” she snapped, her voice

dragged me into that car like I was nothing! I fought to hit them with a beer bottle, fought

voice broke, tears threatening to

where were you?” she

who saved me wasn’t you-it was

you know how humiliating that is? I married you to escape

just gone through with it and

vulnerability hung in the air between

her-truly saw her-perhaps for the first

carefully constructed

always remained detached, who struggled to empathize

he loosened his

shoulder, reminiscent of how

your

I won’t interfere.”

her moment of freedom, stepping

don’t want to be