When Love Breaks by Jack

Chapter 56

“Okay.”I took a seat beside him, trying to meet his piercing, clear gaze, and found myself growing more and more uncomfortable.

In the vast study, it was just Timothy and me, and Gary, who was making coffee on the side.

Sure enough, Timothy started, “So, you’re still going for the divorce?”

My heart sank. He had seen right through me; hiding it was futile.

“Yeah… How did you know?”

He sighed but wasn’t angry about being deceived. “You, always so independent and stubborn, never showed much on your face, but those eyes of yours, when have they ever looked away from him? But tods.

you haven’t given him a single glance.”

There was a note of regret in his words.

Hearing that, I felt a lump in my throat and couldn’t say a word.

even if you

could see it clear as day, yet Bryant

he just clueless, or never

my head, hiding my bitter emotions, my throat tight with words

gestured for

you to marry that boy, you wouldn’t have fallen into this

come true for me. Without you, I might have spent my whole life reaching for the stars. But now, I can

you can’t have, you’ll

now I can let go, which is much better than never having it at

way, I wouldn’t

helpless. “Originally, I wanted to persuade you not to go through with the divorce, but hearing you talk like this, to say more would just show I’m too biased towards Bryant. You should know, in my eyes,

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last words were said with

was a promise, and it gave me

choked with

he called my name, his expression inscrutable. “Do you know why I never wanted Margaret or her mom to marry into the

“Why?”

He signaled Gary with a

to the safe, pulled out a