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

remember that divorce

her heart. McNeil had never really belonged to her alone, and

the heat that had just

"I remember..."

for her vanished. His interest evaporated, and

why it hadn't

morning, Mr. Langford had unexpectedly brought Miss Gwyneth home with him. Gwyneth had seemed fine during the day, but by nightfall, something was clearly

sobbing that she missed her mother. Xenia had spent ages calming

seen them return together in a

"Where's Gwyn?"

Gwyneth wasn't home, McNeil

just

could finish, Gwyneth came stumbling out of her room, barefoot and tear-streaked, eyes unfocused. She was crying

"Gwyn..."

embrace her, but Gwyneth shrieked and tried to run

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