The unwanted wife’s unexpected comeback

Chapter 1298:

“When I caught them, I wasn’t even expecting her to change. I just wanted her to be discreet about it. My reputation’s on the line here, and it would be humiliating if word got out. But you know what she told me? She claimed the child isn’t even mine—it’s her ex-boyfriend’s.”

Laney stood there, words failing her.

“I’m still so young,” Merrick’s voice cracked with despair.

“How could she do this to me?”

Before she could stop herself, Laney’s sharp tongue got the better of her.

“Isn’t this sort of drama par for the course in your social circle? If you were a woman, you’d probably be pregnant every month, struggling to keep track of potential fathers.”

Merrick’s shoulders slumped as he let out a weary sigh.

you can’t offer

“Alright.”

Laney’s words only left

later, he extended an invitation to a

found herself agreeing to attend. Then, a sobering thought

understood the depth of her feelings. She knew that with Cliff, their little power struggles were merely surface-level dances. When it came to matters of real importance, she felt compelled to

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he had just returned from an out-of-province trip. She found him still wearing his suit, the fabric carrying the crisp bite of early autumn air, his face bearing

and Cliff had already secured reservations at a nearby five-star establishment, where he planned to take

them himself, being particularly discriminating about food and quick to point out flaws in others’

as if she viewed him through a rose-tinted lens,

you seem like a

to interpret “dependable partner” as “a divorced