Secret Admiration: Finding True Love After Prison

Chapter 256 Regret

The sudden embrace left Anne stunned for a few seconds.

She could smell a faint hint of cologne on Dante, a scent that was vaguely familiar.

It suddenly dawned on her that a year ago, for Dante's birthday, she had given him a bottle of cologne that smelled just like this.

Back then, they hadn't yet started talking about divorce. After giving him the gift, she noticed he hadn't used it. Gradually, Anne had forgotten about it.

It was only later, during a room cleaning, that she discovered the cologne was still in Dante's closet, unopened, with the ribbon still intact.

The realization had hurt her deeply.

She'd painstakingly chosen that gift over several weeks, wrapping it herself, only to find it shoved away, neglected.

It felt like a slap in the face.

At this moment, in the face of Dante's unexpected declaration of love, Anne felt oddly calm.

Anne no longer wanted to exhaust herself over Dante.

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the response she longed for. That love had

come to realize that it was better to

first.

though the process was painful. But stepping away was

step back, freeing herself from Dante's embrace, her eyes reflecting a distant

and told me that my injury wasn't an accident-it was orchestrated by Lola.

It was

if she was

situation.

and hoped for a response, but now,

eyes widened in pain. "How can you stop loving me? Anne, I refuse to

the hospital corridor, bent down and forcefully kissed her.

pull away,

firmly, pinning her

parted, Dante's tongue slid in, hungrily exploring and

trying to

struggled instinctively, but he was overwhelming

insistent.

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he was crossing the line, Anne raised her hand and.

understand that? You used to be so arrogant. Now, begging me to love you-don't you find that pathetic? You're Dante, the young master of the Paltrow family, for heaven's sake! Don't you have plenty of women?" Anne had had enough of

between. Every time I

a widow's life. Once or twice, I could tolerate it, but