The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance

Chapter 975

For both of them, this was already an uncomfortably personal question.

Still, Stella answered honestly. "Not at the moment."

"And in the future?" Joshua pressed.

"The future?" Stella paused to consider. "Who can really say what's to come?"

Joshua's gaze was steady. "Would you ever get back together with Haynes for the

sake of your child?"

This time, Stella barely hesitated. She shook her head instinctively.

"No. I wouldn't."

Outside the door, Haynes had just raised his hand to knock. He froze at her

words.

Joshua's voice carried through the door again. "You were together for five years,

you have a child... Are you really able to let go?"

Stella's reply was immediate. "Forcing ourselves to stay together for our child's

sake would only be unfair—to him, to ourselves, and to the very idea of marriage.

I used to put up with so much in that relationship, all because of Keen.

I thought I was sacrificing a lot for our family, but the truth is, neither Keen nor

Haynes needed that from me.

And all the while, I felt indescribably wronged... I suppose that's just another form

of emotional blackmail.

with my life now. I may have been late

I didn't miss

"Do

a moment to think. "No.

room, Joshua glanced subtly toward the

touched the

enter. Instead, he

why, but suddenly he didn't know

Stella had moved on. But hearing

loud felt like a sledgehammer slamming into his

don't"—echoed in

smile flickered

this on

understood Keen's

of him wished

was before. But looking

he realized

life—free and unburdened—was

what she truly deserved.

this side of her, would he still be so hung up on

...

Sellers huddled in the corner, barely

body

neat, precise cuts

of the injuries had

with the stench

never been so utterly

if he had been consigned to the deepest circle of

day, but whenever he did, he

imaginable

he left

clung to

just hold