The CEO's Amazing Ex-Wife Is Back! by H. Dally

Chapter 34

Thalassa felt tears burning her eyes, but she refused to give him the satisfaction of seeing her cry. “Are you done?”

“You aren’t even going to deny it, so it’s true?” A bitter smile stretched across his lips as he pointed a finger at Zeke, “You moved in with this man just a few days after our divorce. For someone who was so desperate for me to take you back, you sure didn’t waste any time jumping onto your next prey.”

Zeke realized what Kris was driving at and stepped in to try and clarify. “Thalassa is not the woman you think she is. Things didn’t happen the way-

“Zeke,” Thalassa raised her hand to cut him off. “I don’t owe this man any explanation.”

Kris’s gaze hardened. “If you think you don’t owe me any explanation, then you also have no right to come after my family with your bogus accusations.”

Thalassa sucked in a breath. “It was your child too.”

“My child? How do I know that?” Kris demanded. “Even if you were truly pregnant, how can I be sure that the child was mine when you moved on to the next man immediately after our divorce? How can I be sure that it didn’t belong to any of your other lovers?”

He let out a scoff, the anger and pain evident in his eyes. “Did you yourself even know the father of the bastard you were carrying?”

Out of all the things he’d said to her, this was the worst of them all. Thalassa had tried so hard not to cry, but at that moment, she felt a single tear slip down her cheek as she smiled sadly.

“Congratulations, Kris. You just called your dead child a bastard. I hope you never regret it because for this, I’ll never forgive you.”

that, she turned and calmly made her way back

in front of Kris, but as soon as she entered her office, the dam behind her eyes broke. Tears streamed down her face, wracking her body in gut–wrenching sobs.

Zeke breathed, shocked by her reaction.

her. She stiffened, but contrary to his expectations, she didn’t push him away. Instead, she sagged against him, allowing the sobs to rack through

his skin at the sheer magnitude of pain behind every sound that came from her. Maybe this

he’d known her, he’d never seen her cry. Not even once. Even when Granny passed away, he’d known she was grieving too, yet she only cried when

of her ex–husband. She was obviously still affected by

she was allowing him to hold her like this,

the door suddenly opened. Luisa

she said hurriedly, about to turn and leave when

as she finally pulled

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hold back a sigh of disappointment at the loss

“I’m sorry you had to

to apologize for

bad person because he was glad to have seen

she wasn’t just the cold, unfeeling woman she portrayed herself to be. It gave him hope that he could melt her

as she stepped into the room, closing

to her,” Zeke explained before turning to Thalassa with a slight frown. “I was going to tell him the truth that there was nothing between us. Why did you