Secret Admiration: Finding True Love After Prison

Chapter 749 Different Voice

“Chandler, I feel terrible,” Dante lamented into the phone. “Why is Anne treating me like this? What did I do to deserve this?

“I turned Lola into the police myself–wasn’t that enough? She accepted both Yancey and Max, but why won’t she give me another chance?”

Chandler was exhausted from his trip and in no mood to deal with Dante’s relationship problems.

He fell silent for a moment before responding, “You’re indeed a jerk. You had three years of marriage and countless opportunities to win her heart, yet you chose to ignore her instead.

“Nobody waits in the same place forever. When you finally turned around, the one who had waited for you was already

gone.”

His words were gentle but clear; Dante had brought this on himself.

Dante took another swig of wine. People said alcohol could drown your sorrows, but why did each drink only seem to deepen his depression?

“What about our daughter?” he pressed. “Fine, she doesn’t want me, but to reject Bella? I brought her to Havenbrook, and Anne

hapter 749 Different Voice hasn’t even asked to see her.”

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Chandler sighed. Anne had seen right through Dante’s attempt to use Bella to manipulate her emotions, which was precisely why she was keeping her distance.

When Max woke up, he instinctively reached for Anne’s side of the bed, finding it empty. He opened his eyes to confirm what he already knew she was gone.

Last night had been his first time with a woman. Everything was a blur of sensation and emotion, ending only when

Anne, exhausted, had murmured, “Let’s sleep.” He’d finished immediately.

Recalling Anne’s expression, he surmised that she was pleased with him.

Half asleep in the middle of the night, he instinctively pulled Anne into his arms. To his surprise, when he woke up, she was

gone.

It’s only seven in the morning. Did she really leave this early?

bed

processing the sight of Max in her pink sheets. Her cheeks flushed as

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a year of celibacy, she’d ended up

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But she had to admit Max had taken

descended the stairs, Anne nearly stepped

Dante curled up like a homeless

cool. He must

“Jaxon, I’m sending you

brought an entourage of

with sleep. “Anne, Mr. Paltrow is—”

“You’ve worked for Dante for years. Please convince him to leave Havenbrook. We’re never getting back

Jaxon fell silent.

in the world. He has options,”

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Dante’s eyes snapped open. “There may be other

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unfocused, and his words were slurred with wine. “Come back

her neck,

with him last night? How could you betray me like

the cold wall, and pain flashed across her face. She didn’t resist as his fingers dug into her neck, just staring at him

a year. How is this betrayal? Am

cut deep. Dante’s eyes

strangle me?”

at his hand and shaking his head vigorously. “No. How could I ever hurt you? Anne, you know I care

I deserve, but please, come back to me. We can go back to how things were. I promise I’ll be

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constantly ignored

meant nothing. She fixed him with a cold, distant stare.

aways

to one knee

can’t go back? No, there must be a chance. There has to be.