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.

did briefly

bed and those words “termination of pregnancy” on the yellowed hospital report, Brandon pressed his lips tightly together, and

to touch

consent, Brandon knew he had no right

brought nothing but the shackles of being a Crawley daughter-in-law, with no added happiness or

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

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

other

spasms in his

in the heart could manifest as a physical response

his stomach, glanced in the direction Sophia left, but her figure was no

decisive and without a second look back

his gaze and

took the stairs up.

of the lobby on the first floor, she saw Brandon’s car

didn’t falter as she numbly watched the black sedan turn a corner and gradually disappear, her mind replaying Brandon’s hand suspended in

was simply a matter of incompatibility between her and Brandon.

wasn’t born of 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 wasn’t the one

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happened to be the one

hate him. Even when she saw his lonely and

rationally

stop or look back, just moved

her, the black sedan grew smaller in the

one to the right.

anxiously waiting.

but look behind her as she walked in and, not seeing Brandon, he frowned

with a more serious tone, concern barely concealed in his eyes. Sophia offered him a smile.

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