My Coldhearted Ex demands a Remarriage by Eva Blackwood

Chapter 826

Chapter 826:

She waved her hand before his unfocused gaze. “Hello? Earth to Kristopher! Has the heat addled your brain completely? Hold on, I’m calling an ambulance.”

As she reached for her phone, Kristopher’s fingers wrapped around her wrist. His voice emerged strained and hoarse. “Don’t. I just need to sit for a moment.”

The nearby benches beckoned, barely a hundred meters away. Their slow progress stretched seconds into minutes, neither breaking the heavy silence between them.

While Carrie yearned to escape the suffocating atmosphere, Kristopher found himself deliberately dragging his feet, harboring an inexplicable desire to prolong their contact.

Forever, if possible.

thought startled him, yanking him back to his senses. When had he

was, engaged to Aliza, yet fantasizing about an endless walk with his

his own sanity—after all, he’d divorced Carrie with full mental clarity. If he’d truly loved her, how could he have let

laugh at himself. What was he thinking? That he

soon as he reached the bench, he wasted no time pulling his arm from Carrie’s grasp. His voice turned cold, distant.

stunned.

slap in the face. Unbelievable. If she had just walked away earlier, none

her hand in kindness to steady him, yet his response left her stunned. “Have some self-respect,” he had declared with inexplicable haughtiness, completely failing to show

a calculated step backward, she let a sardonic smile play across her lips. “My, my, Mr. Norris, your duplicity knows no bounds,” she observed. “You present yourself as virtuous, yet your actions tell quite a different tale. Where was all this talk of ‘self-respect’ during your rather memorable

she watched Kristopher stand there, rendered speechless by her pointed

than wait for him to cobble together a response, Carrie pivoted to leave. In that fluid motion, her gaze caught on something—water bottles gleaming

between the bottle and the merciless sun blazing beyond