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.

a flicker of warmth through the chill in his chest. He looked

a long, weighted pause, he murmured,

locked, the world around them momentarily dissolving into

Kristian stepped out

door closing felt like the end of something.

Freya drove forward.

the parking lot, she rolled down the window. The

grounded her, helped

was what it felt like-when someone

when the worst had already passed, apologies started to lose their power. Life pushed forward. As for the past, Freya had already made her peace with

she let

let go,

eyes closed, mind replaying

"I forgive you." and

held warmth-now only held a

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

an hour before Gerard's

the screen. Liam was

He picked up. "Hello."

brother still

at Kristian in the back

issue- something urgent came up.

"Tell him to hurry up.

"Okay."

"By the way."

"Yes?"

Liam's voice held a

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called earlier, he didn't

without blinking. "He's been

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

Gerard well-always the one reminding Kristian to

So what could be

Gerard

at Kristian, who looked as though he were silently bleeding

said, "Mr. Shaw, you've only got one more

"Drive," Kristian rasped.

were just Liam, he might've kept him waiting. But his parents were waiting.

the engine, weighed

pang of

pushed harder back then-insisted they sit down and

through?

he still divorced Freya for her. Wasn't that

in thought, Gerard pulled into