The Broken-hearted She And The Icy He

Chapter 212 Payback’s Just Getting Started.

Chapter 2

12 Payback’s Just Getting Started

Earlier, when James publicly stood up for Lily, it gave Nancy a glimmer of hope.

She’d always feared her cold, stoic eldest son might end up bringing home an equally cold and distant wife. Naturally, she hoped he and Lily would live in harmony. Catching Ivan’s eye, she gave him a quick signal, and the two quietly slipped out of the room to avoid causing any distractions.

Soon, the hospital room was quiet, with only Lily and James remaining.

Lily understood perfectly–when he had just called her his wife in front of John, it was only because she’d agreed to help convince Henry to approve their divorce. He didn’t want to owe her a favor, so he’d stepped in on her behalf. She wasn’t delusional; she knew better than to read too much into it.

Seeing him standing coolly off to the side, she quickly said, “James, don’t worry. I know what you said. carlier was just out of obligation, nothing more. I won’t take it the wrong way.

“Mm

James really didn’t want her to misunderstand.

But strangely, now that she said she wouldn’t read into it, his chest felt strangely tight.

He didn’t like this feeling–this loss of control over his own thoughts–so he coldly shifted the topic. “That old classmate of yours… What kind of guy is he? How are things progressing between you two?”

What?

Ihy was he bringing up that imaginary classmate again?

He still didn’t know the “old classmate was something she’d made up on the spot. There was no such person- so of course, there was no progress to speak of.

—

to cling to him, which could ruin his mood and delay

good guy,” she said

him. If I could marry

if something was

feel suffocated. Now, hearing her say she liked someone else, the tightness in his chest hadn’t

pressed a hand to his chest discreetly

“That’s great.”

prepared a wedding gift. Once you two get married, I’ll have

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actually want to accept any

to reject it outright, so she simply offered a polite,

you” made his chest tighten even

“B*tch!”

drenched in buckets

driving was a public enemy–countless netizens had vented their outrage, condemning Lily as a

overnight, everything

revealing Wendy’s plot went viral the next morning, public anger doubled. People felt tricked, deceived. And all that fury now turned toward

netizens had camped out near her apartment complex and, without warning, dumped two full

over again. But no matter that she did, every breath she took reeked of rot. Her skin stank

and again. She was nearly tearing the

“Mom, are you okay?”

from the bathroom,

slut Lily’s fault! If she hadn’t recorded that damned video, I wouldn’t have

Wendy opened her mouth, a wave of putrid stench hit Elsa square