Revenge After Divorce by Black Rose

Chapter 278

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I stood there, my hands clenched into fists, the helplessne choking me. I didn’t know how to fix this. I didn’t know how to help her. I wanted to reach out, to hold her, to tell her that everything would be okay, but the words seemed so hollow. There was nothing I could say to undo the horror she had experienced.

he had caused her, for the nightmare he had dragged her into. But even that thought, revenge, felt up for empty,

damage had been done, and all we could do now was help her plece herself back together, If that was even possible. But one thing was for sure, I would stand by her side, alongside Marcus, every step of the way. Whatever it took, I wouldn’t let her face this alone. We would fight for her, even

as I turned to leave the room, I was stopped dead in my tracks by the unexpected sight of my best friend, Nick, standing in front of me. Luke was there too, standing just behind him. I didn’t know when they’d arrived, but it was clear they had heard the scream, the same heart–wrenching, gut–wrenching scream that still echoed in my

defeat, his shoulders slumped as though the weight of the world had been pressed down on him. But it was Nick who broke me. The man, usually so stoic, was standing there, tears streaming down his face. He didn’t even try to hide it. There was no shame in his grief,

couldn’t. The agony, the helplessness of watching someone you cherish in such a state of torment, it had to be unbearable. As much as I tried

shadow of Nick Jones when Olivia left him, the loss in his eyes, the emptiness that followed her departure. But I was wrong. What I was seeing now was not a shadow of Nick. This was the real Nick Jones. He had been broken too. Just like Olivia, he stood there shattered, stripped of all the strength I had once seen in him. He looked exactly like she did, vulnerable,