Sweet Submission: Reclaiming Her Love

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Sweet Submission Reclaiming Her Love

Chapter 74 It’s Too Late

The ring fell to the floor with a gentle clink, rolling over several times and stopping at Elliot’s feet.

Elliot remained motionless, staring down at it.

“Why did you give this to me? Is this your way of proposing to me?” Corynn’s voice was steady, despite the recent memory of the wedding invitation from Amanda.

Elliot looked up, his eyes filled with a tentative hope. “If you leave Jason, we could marry right away.

Corynn stood with her arms crossed. Three years earlier, she would have leapt at such a proposal from Elliot without a second thought. But three years had changed everything.

Back then, Elliot hadn’t truly loved her, and now, he was about to marry Amanda yet seemed unwilling to let Corynn go. Had she not learned of his engagement, she might have fallen for his declarations of affection.

He was almost married to Amanda. How could he now want to marry her?

“No,” Corynn stated coldly.

Rejecting his advance, she turned and walked away in a steady gait.

if his heart was crumbling, its pieces falling through an abyss.

down to retrieve the ring, but then, driven by desperation, he reached out and

do this,” he begged, his voice

plea, Corynn’s face remained impassive as she allowed him to hold

were the one who ended things. Have you forgotten?” she reminded him quietly. He rested his head against her shoulder. “I regret everything I said. I take it all back,” he confessed.

Elliot was engaged to another, she was ready to begin anew. Their paths had irrevocably diverged. As Corynn walked away, she looked back once, her

out, but his hand closed on empty air.

had meant to give

turned to

grabbed her wrist and put a tube of scar ointment into her palm. “I got this abroad. The doctor said it might help with the scarring

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It’s Too Late

Elliot. “Keep it.

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He felt that each s the work down for gay between them, diminishing any

his hand, he paused beside a trash

finality.

clear that no matter his efforts,

to let her go to