She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 250

Chapter 250 Happy Birthday

Kristian's voice was scratchy, laced with a hollow kind of sorrow. "What day is it today?" he muttered.

"What's going on with you?" Liam asked, picking up on the shift in his demeanor. "You sick or something?" "No," Kristian replied flatly.

Still, Liam couldn't shake the sense that something wasn't quite right. "You sure you're okay?"

"I'm fine." Kristian looked worn thin-his voice steady, but devoid of strength. "Let's talk business."

"You do realize today's your birthday, right?" Liam blurted it out, his voice tinged with earnestness. "Happy 28th-you're creeping up on thirty,"

Kristian froze. Freya, having overheard, paused too. Her eyes shimmered with an unreadable blend of emotion.

Was it really the 14th already?

"I figured you'd forget," Liam continued. "For the past few years, with your wife around, I didn't have to worry. But now that she's divorced you, someone's gotta step up."

That landed like a sucker punch, slamming into Kristian's already bruised heart and leaving it cold and numb.

"You still at the office?"

"Yeah."

"Hurry back. Mom and Dad are outside your home. We've got a cake and everything."

The emotions Kristian had fought so hard to lock away began to rise again, pressing against his throat.

He forced out a muffled, "Okay."

After ending the call, he silenced his phone and sent Liam the door code. It was the date of his wedding to

Freya.

Once he managed to pull himself together, he looked over at Freya.

The moment their eyes met, it was like something inside him cracked wide open. Emotion surged and tangled

in his chest.

He parted his lips, trying to speak, but no words seemed fitting. Nothing would do justice to the storm in his

heart.

If not for sheer willpower, tears might have welled in his eyes and blurred the world again.

"Happy birthday," Freya said, her voice soft, layered with complicated feelings. His expression clearly took her

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by surprise.

He looked at her intently, as though he was trying to memorize every detail of

murmured,

the world around them momentarily dissolving into

Kristian stepped out of

of the door closing felt like

Freya drove forward.

out of the parking lot, she rolled down the window.

helped her gather

like-when someone who once meant everything finally said

started to lose their power. Life pushed forward. As for

she

have let go,

seat, eyes closed, mind replaying every moment that had

had said "I forgive

her eyes-eyes that once held warmth-now only held a calm, final kind

happened. All he knew was that Kristian was in a dark place. He

half an hour before Gerard's phone

glanced at the screen.

He picked up. "Hello."

my brother still

Kristian in the back seat and answered

something urgent came up. He might need another

him to hurry up. We're all

"Okay."

"By the way."

"Yes?"

Liam's voice held a rare note of concern. No matter the teasing, Kristian

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his older brother. "When I called

covered for his boss without blinking. "He's been swamped since morning and hasn't eaten a

you. Let him finish up and get home," Liam

Gerard well-always the one reminding Kristian to eat, to

what could be tying him up

up, Gerard silenced

at Kristian, who looked as

Shaw, you've only got

"Drive," Kristian rasped.

waiting. But his parents were waiting. He couldn't

and started the engine, weighed down by

pang of guilt

pushed harder back then-insisted they sit down

through?

And yet he still

Gerard pulled