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.

as she

last night!” she snapped, her voice trembling with

any idea how terrified I was? They drugged me, and dragged me into that car like I was nothing! I fought to hit them

broke, tears

where were

the person who saved me

you to escape him, and now it’s like the universe is

have just gone through with it

vulnerability hung in the

her-perhaps for the first

constructed emotional fortress

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

loosened

awkwardly patted her shoulder, reminiscent of how one might

with your

I won’t interfere.”

her moment of freedom, stepping

want to be