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.

chill in his chest. He looked at her intently, as though he was

murmured, voice rough

the world around them momentarily dissolving

Kristian stepped out of the

felt like the end of something. Like a

Freya drove forward.

parking lot, she rolled down the window.

her, helped her gather

like-when someone

started to lose their power. Life pushed forward. As for the past, Freya had already made her

this moment on, she let it

might have let go, but Kristian

quietly in the back seat, eyes closed, mind replaying every moment that had just

said "I forgive you."

once held warmth-now only held a

had no idea what had happened. All he knew was that Kristian was in a dark place. He wasn't joking like

silence lasted about half an hour before Gerard's

at the screen. Liam was

He picked up. "Hello."

brother still at

Kristian in the back seat and answered in his usual

came up.

Liam replied. "Tell him to hurry

"Okay."

"By the way."

"Yes?"

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

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"When I called earlier, he

without blinking. "He's been swamped since morning and

won't keep you. Let him finish up and

the one reminding Kristian to eat, to rest, to

himself. So what could be tying him up like

up, Gerard silenced his

who looked as though he were silently

"Mr. Shaw, you've only got one

"Drive," Kristian rasped.

his parents

and started the engine, weighed

pang of guilt

hadn't he pushed harder back then-insisted they

through?

even liked Ashley. And yet he still divorced Freya for her. Wasn't

Gerard pulled into the