The unwanted wife’s unexpected comeback

Chapter 1160:

Cliff fell silent. He’d spent the night restless, smoking, until at four in the morning, he ventured out to buy fresh ingredients for her soup. Three hours of preparation had gone into it. She’d tasted his cooking before. Why couldn’t she remember the flavor of his soup? Such a poor memory.

Cliff studied her foot with careful attention. The bruise had faded to a yellowish ring, not entirely gone but nothing serious.

Laney’s cheeks burned with embarrassment as she tried to hide her foot from his inspection. “It’s not pretty,” she muttered.

Cliff’s eyes swept over her rounded toes. “Indeed, it’s ugly.”

A cold snort escaped Laney’s lips.

The room fell into a comfortable silence as Laney savored the soup, while Cliff reclined in the makeup chair across from her, his attention seemingly absorbed by his phone screen.

Despite her usual concerns about maintaining her figure, Laney couldn’t resist fishing out every tender morsel of meat from her single bowl of soup.

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mentioned you were there drinking too,” she ventured, her

he secured the thermos. “You put on quite

throat, her pulse quickening. Could he

you forgotten what you did last night?”

heart plummeted, her voice barely a whisper.

skills were quite

his opinion of her had sunk even lower. “It was the alcohol,” she

had always considered himself a gentleman, found a darker side to his nature as he couldn’t resist teasing her. “What happened afterward? Did things go too far?” His tone carried

of her

lines. Where else did he touch you?” Cliff pressed. “If you witnessed it all, why

burst out, feeling wronged. “Weren’t you worried he