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.

Cliff’s voice broke the

on g aln ov

Laney replied with a

as fragments of last night’s memories resurfaced. “Kailyn mentioned you were there drinking too,” she ventured, her voice

of mockery played at the corners of Cliff’s mouth as he secured the

throat, her pulse quickening. Could

did last night?” Cliff’s calm voice cut through her spiraling

plummeted, her voice barely a whisper. “You saw

your kissing skills

opinion of her had sunk even lower.

nature as he couldn’t resist teasing her. “What happened

eyes widened, thinking of her faintly aching

cross lines. Where else did he touch you?” Cliff pressed. “If

wronged. “Weren’t