She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 424:

Kristian turned to Freya and gave her a quiet nod, signaling that it was safe to enter.

Freya stepped into the room, and the moment Alan saw her, he charged at her and pulled her into a tight hug. “Mina! Thank God you’re okay! I was terrified he’d killed you!”

Both Freya and Kristian stood in silence, caught off guard by the bizarre display.

“I’ve already made peace with him,” Freya said, humoring Alan’s drunken delusions, her voice calm and flat. “Now sit down. I’ll whip up something to flush the poison out of your system.”

“Okay,” Alan mumbled. He shuffled to the couch, slumped over, and promptly passed out.

Freya frowned.

Just as she was about to prepare some honey water, her eyes landed on a shattered phone lying on the floor.

Her mind went into a spin. “Is that your phone?” she asked.

Kristian said with a shrug, his voice devoid

get her cousin off alcohol

from you later,” Kristian said, his eyes on Freya, his voice

feeling guilty over everything, Freya nodded. “What is

phone—ones I didn’t back up. Now that it’s broken,

least I can do,”

add anything else. Freya took a cup from the kitchen, filled it halfway with hot water,

she

𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙧𝙖𝙛𝙩:

even the guest room—each looked like a war zone. Only the kitchen and the study, which was locked,

the honey water. Kristian helped

stirred up a strange, nostalgic feeling in Freya, like she’d been transported back to the early days of their marriage.

cup aside and let

longer. Her cousin had made the mess. It only made sense

reached out and took her wrist. His hand was warm, his touch light—but

to pull away when Kristian spoke. “Hold off on that for a second. There’s something I