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.”

eyes still lowered, carefully hiding whatever

his phone and

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

hollow kind of sorrow. “What day is it

asked, picking up on

𝖎𝖙 𝖈𝖆𝖒𝖊 𝖋𝖗𝖔𝖒:

“No,” Kristian replied flatly.

the sense

“You sure you’re okay?”

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

Liam blurted it out, his voice tinged with earnestness. “Happy 28th—you’re creeping

having overheard, paused too. Her eyes shimmered with an unreadable blend

really the

“For the past few years, with your wife around, I didn’t have to

a sucker punch, slamming into Kristian’s already bruised heart and leaving it cold and

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