The Broken-hearted She And The Icy He

Chapter 72 The New Wife.

Chapter 72 The New Wife

Wayne hesitated for à long moment, then finally gave in and made the call.

Lily had just reached to put her phone on silent when she saw Wayne’s name flash on the screen.

She didn’t mind Wayne. After a pause, she picked up.

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The moment the line connected, his voice came through–rushed and urgent. “Ms. Lily, I’m so sorry to bother you this late, but John drank a lot. He has a fever and won’t let the doctor treat him. He keeps calling out for his wife–saying he has to find you. Could I trouble you to come and calm him down, get him to cooperate with treatment?”

Lily froze slightly.

She couldn’t help but recall the last time John had gotten this drunk–when Elsa had just returned to the country. That night, John had cried out, “Wife,” over and over again too.

Her heart had softened. She went back to him.

And what came after that?

He hurt her again and again–all for Elsa.

She had already made the decision to let go. She wouldn’t repeat the same mistake.

When she had been chatting with James earlier, she’d fallen into a bit of a trap.

He had said he didn’t want anyone knowing they were married, and she’d instinctively taken that to mean she couldn’t tell anyone she was married either.

But really, as long as she didn’t say her husband was James, there was nothing stopping her from telling people she was a married woman.

Lily, please,” Wayne tried again, his

tone turned cool and distant, cutting him off. “Today is the day I registered my marriage. I’m already married. It’s not appropriate for me to be interfering in

what did

just said was so shocking, so unthinkable, that he couldn’t help but blurt out, “You… you said you got married? Did I hear

wedding night with my husband. So please dont

further contact–and to drive the point home to John–she took a photo of her marriage certificate, carefully covered James’s face and personal details with mosaic blur, and sent

she’d first said she was married, Wayne had still held out a sliver

it was

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he saw the

the man’s identity hidden, there was no denying the document’s

It was real.

broken up with John–and in the blink of an eye, had married

was cutting off every possible path back. Severing

phone in Wayne’s hand suddenly

John learned Lily

The storm was coming.

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Wayne hung up, John still refused to be

he passed out from exhaustion. The doctor was finally able to lower his fever with physical

stay at

her pride wouldn’t

to the floor–in front of the doctor, Wayne, and the others. She couldn’t stay and endure that humiliation. So, with

it–the shame, the public embarrassment–it was Lily’s

mother. “Mom, tonight John pushed me down…

John will