The unwanted wife’s unexpected comeback

Chapter 1266:

Cliff detected the bite in Gerry’s words but chose to embrace the silence. He stared through the window, his gaze hollow yet searching, as if trying to grasp at something just out of reach.

Wisps of hope lingered in Cliff’s mind.

“She’s never been away from her family before. She’ll come back soon enough.”

Gerry sank deeper into his seat, lacing his fingers behind his head with an exaggerated sigh.

“Right, because she’s clearly willing to endure such hardship just to get away from you. Really shows how much she can’t stand you, doesn’t it?”

Rather than engage with his brother’s barbed words, Cliff turned the key in the ignition.

“Let’s head back.”

Cliff, were you being honest at that press conference?” Gerry

his lips into a thin line. With his brother, there was no need for pretense. He

for Laney?”

“When did that start?”

eyes fixed on the road ahead, Cliff muttered, “What’s it matter

years. I understand women. You’re stuck in a rut, and I could help you figure out a strategy to turn

could you possibly teach me about

this game of silence countless times before, but Laney would always break first, reaching out within days like clockwork. Somewhere along the way, he’d stopped taking her moods seriously, treating her

chapters now on

lost in unfamiliar

bedroom was already a shrine to his previous presents, all abandoned in

in her life, any romantic overtures would seem like desperate attempts to win her over. No, he

restless thoughts finally drove Cliff to

word about her