Chapter 1068:

Before she could finish, Eric’s hold on her chin grew fierce, making her flinch in pain.

“Don’t dress it up so prettily! Be straight with me! You’re ready to risk Joy’s safety and insist on leaving me—is it because of my background? Because I’m no longer a Flynn?”

Tears welled in Eric’s shadowed eyes, his voice quivering with anguish. “Is it because I’m a fraud in your eyes, someone you now deem unworthy?”

His words roared with despair and fragility.

Hadley’s brow furrowed as Eric’s pain lay bare before her.

If admitting it would finally make him let go, perhaps it was worth it.

She drew a deep breath and nodded. “Yes, that’s it.”

The words had barely escaped when Hadley gasped in agony, her jaw throbbing as if fractured under Eric’s grasp.

pain, lost in his own grief and torment. His gaze burned with unrelenting intensity. “Well played!” His bloodshot eyes glistened with tears that spilled

He… was

was raw and bitter. “This is how you treat me? How could you betray me like this? I thought… I thought…” He

that she

How mistaken he was!

fell limp, releasing her. “Go,” he

faltered, uncertain if she had heard him

said go!” Eric’s voice thundered as he raised his head, his

eyes, once warm and wet, now

if the tears she had seen in Eric’s eyes moments ago were merely a trick of her

bag tightly, she turned

her pause and glance back. Softly, she said, “Take care of yourself, for Joy’s

words, she

shut, and a tempest of sound

the table, sending the red diamond ring

wasn’t enough. The

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