• Chapter 20

  • “Really? Then explain why you were living at Navier’s Lakeside Villa during that whole month–long divorce waiting period.”

  • Lysander hurled his phone into Celeste’s lap. On screen was the damning investigation report about

  • her.

  • “If I hadn’t dug deeper, I’d still be in the dark.”

  • “You and Navier coordinated quite brilliantly. This whole Ophelia impersonation act–you were betting I’d go soft over that face of yours, weren’t you?”

  • He gripped Celeste’s throat violently, his mind a chaotic whirlwind of conflicting emotions, acting purely on instinct.

  • Though tears involuntarily sprang from her eyes from the pain, Celeste remained remarkably composed. Instead of panic, she displayed her first genuine smile in days.

  • “Of course, you were supposed to fall for it. You love Ophelia, don’t you? I played my role perfectly. Why still chase after Navier? I can be your Ophelia–I’ll play that role for the rest of your life if that’s what you want.”

  • “Navier doesn’t love you anymore. She’s finally started a new chapter. Stop disrupting her life, Lysander.”

  • She said his name in Ophelia’s exact intonation.

  • Lysander reflexively loosened his grip on her throat, disgust churning inside him.

  • marks forming on her neck, he felt a conflicting pang of regret

  • you, and I definitely won’t marry you!

  • one final glare, signaled for his security team to watch her, then turned away without hesitation. He

  • or another, she owed him

  • the security team, trying

  • Bride of

  • 24.8

  • her, handled her with

  • this weakness, she made a desperate dash toward Lysander’s

  • she was too late.

  • already

  • couldn’t pursue him now,

  • watching the helicopter shrink to a

  • sitting motionless for a long, she finally

  • Lysander gone, she needed to accelerate her plans.

  • walked the Bond Street from

  • someone here was like searching for a

  • across the streets did nothing to calm his

  • answers and

  • more desperately he searched, the more elusive she remained.

  • she’d left England, he spotted them on that same

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