The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance

Chapter 1182

Chapter 1182

"Help you?" Leonard let out a mocking laugh. "You're nothing more than a plaything for him-a little amusement when he's bored.

All this so-called 'help' you think you're getting? It's just a few well-chosen words for him. That's all it's ever been.

Rachel, you seriously overestimate yourself.

He knew you were a fraud from the very beginning."

Leonard and Joshua were cut from the same cloth-when it came to manipulating people, Leonard could write the rulebook.

Rachel was never much of a liar. She could fool Simone and Aurora, perhaps, but trying to deceive men like them-men who'd clawed their way out of hell-was laughable.

Leonard looked down at Rachel, his gaze cold and superior. "Tell me, Rachel, did it ever occur to you that a man as ruthless as Joshua wouldn't fall hopelessly in love with you just because you played a pretty tune?

If he were really that easy to handle, do you think you'd have ended up like this?" The truth was becoming crystal clear to Leonard.

All that talk about "the one that got away" or "seeking redemption"-it was nothing more than a story Joshua spun for his own amusement.

Simone would ever buy into something

a fantasy of a woman they'd never even seen. What if she turned out to be plain, or

"guiding star" because they'd actually talked;

that violinist

No-she'd just


seen her face, maybe you could call it love at first

her back, all he ever heard was a

song and a fleeting silhouette were enough to ensnare

Ignorance truly is bliss.

Leonard watched Rachel's face

then

around was to use you

s

never thought Simone would actually

flashed through Rachel's mind, all the old mysteries suddenly

truth-that

come to

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