The Reclaimed Rose (Annalise and Steven)

Chapter 22

Chapter 22

Hearing my voice, Steven turned to me with a complicated gaze. "Annalise... You... You're back. He didn't hurt you, d-did he?"

How fake was he? Now that he thought I had done it with another man, he no longer called me "honey" anymore.

"Oh, he didn't do anything to me. We just chatted," I casually told them the truth.

"I'm sorry, Annalise. I didn't have a choice." He didn't seem to believe me yet pretentiously apologized to me.

I shrugged, expecting this exact reaction. Casper might be a key figure in helping me expose Jessica in the future, so I naturally wouldn't disclose everything to Steven.

Ignoring him, I headed straight to the storage room, pulled out my suitcase, and said, "Let's go."

Once we finalized our divorce, I would continue collecting evidence and only expose the truth while Steven and Zachary indulged themselves in this illusion.

be hard for them

me. "Annalise, I know I'm the one at fault. You left with nothing after the divorce, and with your

humiliation kink? Why should I go back to

shameless, aren't you? But

refused his kind gesture. "I was just looking out for

to look out for me, you sent me to a rapist's den." I barely had the

you have in

how openly I called out all his

waste another second on him. I took a cab, told the driver my destination,

the villa district of the city center where Zane

seemed rather surprised to receive my

job and a place to stay. "Does the offer

Zane remained calm. "Have you

matter?"

"Yeah. I'm standing

a minute, a security guard came informing me