Chapter 259

Watching her unnecessary gesture, McNeil let out a dismissive laugh. "Victoria, is there any part of you I haven't seen before?"

Victoria's expression turned even colder. "That was then. This is now."

She was Victoria-no longer some Langford family accessory, and certainly not anyone's plaything.

"McNeil, this ends now."

No love, no pain.

No matter how crude his words, she felt nothing.

The longing and devotion that used to fill her gaze-gone. He searched her eyes and saw only indifference.

The woman who once gave everything for him without complaint, the wife who was anxious and insecure without him, the one who would fall apart at even a hint of another woman in his life-she was no more.

Victoria's face was remarkably calm, as if McNeil no longer held any power over her.

men always make a mistake women

Do you remember that divorce

no longer stirred her heart. McNeil had never really belonged to her alone, and she no

in McNeil's eyes faded, and the heat that had just flared up between them was slowly snuffed out

"I remember..."

that, all desire for her vanished. His interest evaporated, and

already spotted the car idling at the gate, wondering why it hadn't pulled in, and saw the chauffeur get out. She realized Mrs. Langford must

that morning, Mr. Langford had unexpectedly brought Miss Gwyneth home with him. Gwyneth had seemed fine during the day, but

Victoria, sobbing that she missed her mother. Xenia had spent ages

sir, ma'am." Xenia hadn't seen them return together in

"Where's Gwyn?"

Gwyneth wasn't home, McNeil

Gwyneth just

Xenia could finish, Gwyneth came stumbling out of her room, barefoot and tear-streaked, eyes

"Gwyn..."

Victoria moved to embrace her, but Gwyneth shrieked

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