Your Love Is But a Dream

Chapter 298

Clara nodded indifferently. "Okay."

She didn't spare Wren another glance and turned to walk back inside.

Wren stood frozen, watching Clara walk away. Though only a few steps lay between them, it felt as though an insurmountable distance had opened up. It was like sand slipping through his fingers. No matter how hard he tried to hold on, nothing remained.

Shirley lay awake in bed, tossing and turning throughout the night. She had planned to wait for Carlisle to come back from Martha's, hoping to comfort him and show him her tender care so that his heart wouldn't wander toward other

women.

But as soon as she reached the upstairs hallway, she overheard faint voices arguing from inside the room.

By that hour, the maids had already gone to bed, and no one noticed her. Shirley gathered her courage and pressed her ear to the door to listen in.

never marry her. He had never even considered divorcing Katrina and had even

She stood there dazed, unable to believe

Shirley with enough respect over the past four years. He had almost always been

on her, even disregarding his own wife, Katrina. If that wasn't

moment he learned of her divorce? Would he have brought her and Ivy back to the Zachman family to take

years, Carlisle had given her everything except

of his age and position. A divorce at his level would likely invite unnecessary public criticism and he probably didn't want to drag her into that kind

divorced Katrina and married her.

Ivy to marry Wren, ensuring that he

that night, Shirley had always believed this. But now, his casual promise to Martha made her

didn't care about her the way she thought he did. In fact, it was

been so kind to her. Why had he

life of comfort. If