The Broken-hearted She And The Icy He

Chapter 211

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.

—

which could ruin his mood and delay the divorce. After

guy,” she

If I could marry him, that would

something was wrong

made him feel suffocated. Now, hearing her say she liked someone else, the tightness in his

hand to his chest discreetly and said, cold

“That’s great.”

a wedding gift. Once you

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want to accept any money from

awkward to reject it outright, so she simply offered

“thank you” made his chest tighten even

“B*tch!”

had just been drenched in buckets

furious. Drunk driving was a public

then, overnight, everything

viral the next morning, public anger doubled. People felt tricked, deceived. And all

her apartment complex and, without warning, dumped two full buckets of human waste all over

than once, brushed her teeth over and over again. But no matter that

with body wash again and

“Mom, are you okay?”

Wendy finally emerged from the bathroom,

hadn’t recorded that damned

soon as Wendy opened her mouth, a wave of putrid stench

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