Your Love Is But a Dream

Chapter 109

When Martha learned that carlisle had brought Shirley and by back, she chour to tan a blind eye, saying nothing. Had it not been for his overstepping, she would never have potten involved in this again.

But in the end, it had come to this.

Martha lowered her gaze, her entire demeanor seeming to age decades instantly. “I never knew you held such resentment and hatred toward me. Fine, then. This is the good son 1 talked with my own hands.”

She stood up, her eyes clouded with red as tears threatened to spill.

Without sparing Carlisle another glance, she uttered in utter disappointment, “If you can’t let her go, I won’t interfere anymore. I’m old now. Do as you wish.”

With that, Martha ascended the stairs, never once looking back at the ungrateful Carlisle.

Seeing the disappointment on her face, a flicker o of regret crassed Carlisle’s features. He parted his lips, wanting to say something to fix things, but the words wouldn’t come out

In the end

wasn’t until

that

threw herself into his arms. “Thank you for standing

don’t owe me anything I did everything for you willingly

Carlisle had felt earlier vanished the

that Martha and Evelyn were the ones to blame. If it hadn’t been

he was only atoning for their sins.

embraced this, the last trace of guilt in his heart disappeared. He gently patted

be your and Ivy’s

hy’s home. That will never

into him, her response soft and sweet, but her eyes held nothing but icy calculation

same man he used to be, and the Zachman family wasn’t

long as Carlisle protected Shirley, Martha was no

I she could still bear children, she would have given Carlisle a son, and then, she wouldn’t