Chapter 230

“Alright, I promise,” Remington said, not even bothering to ask before he agreed.

He was so eager it was like he feared that if he hesitated even a second, Lizetta–would take back this sliver of a chance to make amends.

Lizetta nodded, “Then you’ve got to start being a good ex–husband, starting now.”

Remington felt a heavy weight on his chest, so much so that he yanked at his tie in frustration.

“A good ex–husband? But we’re not officially divorced yet!”

“That’s why I’m begging you, Remi. I don’t care. You just agreed to it anyway.”

Lizetta frowned with a little huff, her slight temper a vast improvement over the indifferent, numb facade from before.

Remington’s stern expression softened, “What does being a good ex–husband entail?”

“It means stop popping up in front of me all the time, let me go, fulfill my wish to leave.”

Stop shaking her resolve, she couldn’t take this tug–of–war anymore. She was afraid to look back, only to find herself falling into an abyss once again.

Suddenly, Remington clenched his fists, his eyes brimming with bitterness.

He hadn’t expected her final request to be simply letting her go.

innocent while delivering the

to, but she had been innocent these

the Dashiell family, trapped in a marriage.

scorned by

neglect, what right

set you

bobbed, his voice rough as he

“Thanks, Remi.”

lips curled into a smile, and with those words, she turned, opened the

darkness in his eyes slowly filling with bloodshot lines

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closed his eyes sharply.

soothe his own heart, filled with reluctance and

that the moment Lizetta stepped out of the car, the calm and collected facade she had been

could she possibly let go so easily?

pain

thought maybe it was for the best, a bizarre twist of fate made her Remington’s woman – perhaps it was destiny.

the heavens, giving her the chance to confess her feelings, which she’d kept buried deep in her heart, to the man

tell him she wasn’t sad at all, to reveal she had liked him for

but

she never got to see Remington; instead, she heard he had left the country after Fiona

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