The Cherished Wife by Chweety

Wife 78

Chapter 78

Noelle was truly taken aback by Xavier’s behavior. It was obviously him and Winter who wronged her, but somehow, she had been twisted into the one to blame.

Noelle shot Xavier a withering look. “I’m going to act like today never happened. I won’t tell a soul, but don’t pull this again, okay?” She tossed these words over her shoulder as she breezed past him and out

the door.

Xavier’s gaze lingered on Noelle’s fading silhouette. The sweet scent that lingered when he had held her earlier left him momentarily lost in thought. Noelle always smelled amazing. Back when things were good between them, he would hold her hand, and they would walk for hours on end together.

His hands balled into fists, his eyes reddening with intensity.

Noelle was his. She had to be his. Even if his feelings had changed, she was meant to be with him and only him!

a beeline for the bathroom, scrubbing her hands

convinced herself she was over Xavier, but memories of their time together still had the power to wound

with him. He was a few years older,

building after

did not even know what it meant to have a crush, but just seeing him was enough to fill

and they struck up a friendship. That

THE

her beacon of warmth. On her eighteenth birthday, he was the one who stuck by her side and the first to celebrate with

by in a blur. She clung to the past, but the boy she remembered had

a conversation. “Did you hear? Someone spotted Noelle rolling up to work in a high–end car in

making a mountain out of a molehill!” The first person’s voice dripped with

The second person chuckled. “Sounds like someone’s jealous! That Ferrari’s the newest model, you know, and word is that it’s tricked out. Who else but someone loaded would

It