Chapter 1258:

“I understand. I’m sorry,” she whispered, her voice barely audible. Cliff brushed aside her apology with cold indifference.

“One more thing,” he added sharply.

“Why didn’t you properly secure the photos on your phone?”

The question struck her like a physical blow. A chill slithered down her spine as she grasped his implication.

“I locked away everything related to you. Kira had been plotting this exposure for ages. She stole my…”

Cliff interrupted coldly, “Tell me the truth. Was our relationship being exposed part of your scheme?”

at him, disbelief etched

“You suspect me?”

but a counterfeit relationship—one fleeting month of borrowed happiness before casting her into an abyss of despair. Yet, even drowning in her own suffering, she had never once let hatred or blame take root. Why must he insist on seeing the worst in

body, her fingers betraying her with uncontrollable

from her face, Cliff felt clarity slowly seep back into his mind. He’d been lashing out indiscriminately all day, and that last accusation—it was as if some dark force had possessed him, driving him to wound her just

the latest

her gaze, tears streaming silently down her cheeks. With unsteady hands, she unlocked her phone. He watched intently, unable

practiced familiarity to a hidden storage app, revealing a collection of photographs. They were moments captured

were the pictures Laney had carefully selected, private treasures she would look at in secret when the ache of missing him became too much to bear, using them to soothe

them all—each photograph vanishing without

plunged into an abyss as he instinctively reached

“Enough.”

his hand away, her movements frantic. She didn’t stop at just deleting the photos—her trembling fingers moved to uninstall every related app, erasing all traces of their shared past. Each swift tap of her finger felt like a blunt blade twisting in Cliff’s heart, the pain

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