Chapter 455 Rain and Roses at the Gate

John, you weirdo–can’t you stop being such a constant, vile nuisance?

Take your roses and get lost. Don’t dirty the road outsitle the villa,

It’s raining–why can’t a downpour just finish off a filthy cucumber like you?

Lily had thought of countless ways to curse John out.

She really believed she’d be able to unleash them this time

– Colos

But just as she opened her mouth, James’s hands suddenly tightened. Si the words out, producing only strange, muffled sounds..

helplessly, unable to get

“Mmph..”

“Lily”

Outside the villa gates, John’s face turned ashen, like it had been smeared with a layer of cold dust.

His voice cracked in pain, as though it had been ground beneath a car tire. “What are you doing? What is James doing to you?”

Now Lily understood perfectly–James was doing it on purpose!

Realizing she couldn’t get a single proper insult out, she refused to waste another second listening to John’s nonsense. She hung up immediately and blocked the number.

“Lily!”

of his phone, John was on the verge of collapsing

over, like a desperate beast ramming itself against a cage, as if he could smash the gate open

No one answered.

it up so that when John

Lily on the phone, John felt like a thousand knives were stabbing straight into

you… don’t let

repetition, but he still shouted, “James, I forbid you to touch her! Don’t touch her. Lily, I’m not lying, it’s really raining! I’m getting

the sound of the rain, falling heavier and

were already battered and torn apart by

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he clung to them stubbornly, straightening his back as

utterly disappointed in him–knew she didn’t want

he still refused to believe that all their years together meant less than the

to believe that the woman who had once loved him wholly, who had once seen no one else. could see him drenched to the bone

I w you, shouldn’t have doubted you. I’ll kneel right here

the ruined roses tighter, he sank

to rock bottom

shouldn’t have

alone..”

hardest, most bitter moments, he had clung to his pride, unwilling

soften after a fight,

a deep, gnawing certainty–if he kept hiding behind that so–called pride, if

his future, she had always been there beside him. He couldn’t

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