Chapter 166

“I’m heading out,” she murmured under her breath..

Brandon didn’t utter a word, his hand frozen in mid-air after she pushed it away, his gaze complex as he watched her. Sophia’s eyes were downcast, avoiding his gaze.

She didn’t dare look at him. This version of Brandon would just make her heartache and go all mushy.

She turned and shoved open the car door.

Brandon watched her, his hand twitched but ultimately didn’t reach out, silently observing as she got out of the car.

He didn’t stop her, nor did he dare to.

Sophia had told him many times to let her go, but never as bluntly and thoroughly as this time.

So blunt that he felt like a total jerk, unworthy of bothering her.

Maybe Sophia was right.

He didn’t care for her enough, failing to notice her needs, her grievances.

During those two years of marriage, he took her company for granted.

He relished her quiet presence, her companionship, but never pondered what she got out of the marriage.

She was smart, hardworking, had her own career and wealth. The money she earned was more than enough to satisfy her material desires. So, she didn’t need marriage for material pleasure, let alone to climb social ladders.

She never chased after such superficial things.

They married because of a child, but that child didn’t stay.

Over the following year, he considered her health and insisted on not having kids.

briefly return

to rushing to the hospital two years ago, seeing pale-faced Sophia on the bed and those words “termination of pregnancy” on the yellowed hospital report, Brandon pressed his lips tightly together, and he

to touch on this

Brandon knew

the shackles of being a Crawley daughter-in-law, with no added happiness or confidence, only

end the marriage, to stop walking that path with him, to start anew, wasn’t wrong

When she spoke so frankly about why she needed him to release her, he should’ve just

other

his stomach surged again.

organ. Every emotion in the heart could manifest as a physical response in

to press against his stomach, glanced in the direction Sophia left, but her

always decisive and without a second

withdrew his gaze and started the

the

floor,

watched the black sedan turn a corner and gradually disappear, her mind replaying

that their marriage was simply a matter of incompatibility between her and Brandon.

love, nor was it about coercion. It was a result of unilateral

being engrossed in his work after their wedding or not caring about her; she just

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yet, he happened to be the one she wanted, creating this imbalance.

nor did she hate him. Even when she saw his lonely and vulnerable side, she couldn’t help feeling sorry for him.

could now rationally control these

stop or look back, just moved forward

sedan grew smaller in the

one to

returned to the office, Cindy was already anxiously waiting. “Did that guy bother you

behind her as she walked in and, not

replaced with a more serious tone, concern barely concealed in

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