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.

can’t hide, even if you cover your

day, yet Bryant thought I had feelings for

just clueless, or never

bitter emotions, my throat tight with words that eventually all condensed into,

for Gary to

marry that boy, you wouldn’t

“No, it’s not your fault… You just made a dream come true for me. Without you, I

you can’t have, you’ll always

which is

wouldn’t be forever

look 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, you’re no different from my own granddaughter. Even without the Mrs. Ferguson

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last words were said with

promise, and it

choked with emotion,

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

“Why?”

signaled Gary with a

the safe, pulled out a leather-bound folder, and handed it