She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 624:

What she didn’t say was that she no longer loved him.

Maybe her heart was still too soft, afraid he might truly break. Afraid Lionel, now fragile with age, and the rest of the Shaw family, who had shown her nothing but kindness, would be burdened.

Kristian sat frozen, fingers pausing mid-motion, pain twisting in his chest like a tight knot.

He wanted to look up and speak, but the sheer weight of those words—”I forgive you”—crushed him. He couldn’t breathe through it.

His nose stung, and before he realized it, his vision blurred.

They sat in silence inside the car, a thick stillness wrapping around them like fog.

Kristian’s phone buzzed again and again, but he didn’t move. He rested his head against the window, as if he couldn’t even hear it.

When it rang for the fifth time, Freya reminded him gently, “Kristian, someone’s calling you.”

his eyes still lowered, carefully hiding whatever was left

his phone

long enough to pick up!” Liam’s carefree voice

was scratchy, laced with a hollow kind of sorrow.

with you?” Liam asked, picking up on the shift in his demeanor.

????

“No,” Kristian replied flatly.

Liam couldn’t shake the sense that something wasn’t quite

“You sure you’re okay?”

fine.” Kristian looked worn thin—his voice steady, but devoid of strength.

it out, his voice

paused too. Her eyes shimmered with an unreadable

it really

forget,” Liam continued. “For the past few years, with your wife around, I didn’t have to

into Kristian’s already bruised heart