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!

upstairs, feeling a wave of nausea at the memory of Xavier’s embrace. She dropped her bag and made a beeline for the bathroom, scrubbing her hands until

memories of their time together still had the

him. He was a few years older, and she would often see

building after

what it meant to have a crush, but just

one day, and they struck up a friendship. That was before Winter came along and turned everything upside down, back when

THE

Xavier was her beacon of warmth. On her eighteenth birthday, he was the one who stuck

eyes as memories flashed by in a blur. She clung to the past, but the boy she remembered had transformed with time. Time,

caught snippets of a conversation. “Did you hear? Someone spotted

molehill!” The first person’s voice dripped with envy. “You’re

model, you know, and word is that it’s tricked out. Who else but someone loaded would have that on

that’s Noelle’s? It could be some