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.”

straightened up, his eyes still lowered, carefully hiding whatever

took out his phone and

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

with a hollow kind of

up on the shift in his demeanor. “You

???? ????:

“No,” Kristian replied flatly.

the sense that

“You sure you’re okay?”

fine.” Kristian looked worn thin—his voice steady, but devoid of strength. “Let’s talk

realize today’s your birthday, right?” Liam blurted it out, his voice tinged with earnestness. “Happy

too. Her eyes shimmered with an unreadable

it really

few years, with your wife around, I didn’t have to worry. But

sucker punch, slamming into Kristian’s already bruised