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.

flicker of warmth through the chill in his chest. He looked at her intently,

pause, he murmured, voice rough

world around them momentarily

out

of the door closing felt like

Freya drove forward.

pulled out of the parking lot, she rolled down

helped her gather

what it felt like-when someone who once meant everything

worst had already passed, apologies started to lose their power. Life pushed

on, she

might have let go, but

in the back seat, eyes closed, mind replaying every moment

said "I forgive you." and

that once held warmth-now only held a calm, final

was that Kristian was in a dark place. He wasn't joking like usual, nor did he say anything

about half an

the screen. Liam was

He picked up. "Hello."

my brother still at

glanced at Kristian in the back seat and answered in his usual

urgent came

to hurry up.

"Okay."

"By the way."

"Yes?"

something going on with him?" Liam's voice held a rare note

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his older brother. "When I called earlier, he

probably just worn out," Gerard covered for his boss without blinking. "He's been swamped since morning and hasn't eaten

Let him finish up and get

one reminding Kristian

of himself. So what could be

hanging up, Gerard

who looked as though

"Mr. Shaw, you've only

"Drive," Kristian rasped.

it were just Liam, he might've kept him waiting. But his parents were waiting. He couldn't keep them all waiting for

the engine, weighed

of

harder back then-insisted they sit down and

through?

And yet he still divorced Freya for her. Wasn't that utterly

in thought, Gerard pulled into