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Chapter 100

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Their eyes locked for a second. Thalassa was the first to look away. Suddenly realizing that he was still holding her hand, she gently shifted it, prompting him to finally let go.

Clark cleared his throat. “I’m sorry for keeping you later than expected with this hospital trip. I’ll take you home immediately after this. As for the report, don’t worry about it. I’ll personally take care of it. But before that, I really need to know, Lassa, who do you suspect sent that man to attack you?”

Thalassa’s expression darkened. “I’d rather not talk about.”

Clark let out a long sigh. “You never want to talk about anything I ask about. You never even told me what happened between you and Kris to make you two get divorced.”

Clicking her tongue, she grew annoyed with his insistence and sneered, “Do you mean to tell me that you never bothered to look it up, even after I told you it was all over the news?”

“No,” Clark shook his head. “I never looked it up because I was hoping that one day you would trust me enough to tell me about it. I wanted to hear it from you personally, not some article.”

The gentle need for understanding in his eyes cracked Thalassa’s resolve. “Okay. I’ll tell you.”

So she did.

“My marriage to Kris wasn’t a happy one.”

She narrated how he did his best to make her unhappy because he believed the lies of his mother and Karen; how his mother set her up for a crime she didn’t commit, which finally caused their divorce; how she was attacked after leaving the house and lost her child in the process; and how sure she was that it was his mother who sent someone to attack her. 1

God. You went through all that? And Kris? Does he know the truth that it was his

felt a surge of bitterness as she scoffed. “To him, his mother is nothing but an angel who can do no wrong. He refuses to believe

evidence?” he

So far, I haven’t gotten any concrete evidence against her,” Thalassa admitted. “She always made sure to leave

parents are dead, but if someone came to me accusing my mom of such vile things without evidence, I wouldn’t believe it

hardened. “Are you going to

of course not. Kris is an idiot for believing those lies about you years ago and never doing enough to

him then. “Does that mean you think it’s linda Miller who

slowly. “I’m sure of

God, can’t believe that

“But one way or another,

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with everything, Clark.”

again, causing her to tense up as he spoke. “And you can count on me. We’ll expose

a smile for

time, when she shifted her hand to give

understand,” he said, his light brown eyes staring into

swallowed. “Understand what?”

were so full of life before, so happy, but they

try and end that line of conversation. “Perhaps we should get going,

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