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.

promise Martha that he would never marry her. He had never even considered divorcing Katrina

like a thunderclap, shattering all her dreams. She stood

respect over the past

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

the moment he learned of her divorce? Would he have brought her and Ivy

past years, Carlisle had given her everything except

he didn't want to, but because of his age and position. A

divorced Katrina and

for this, he had been pushing for Ivy to marry Wren, ensuring that he could continue to take

Carlisle's words that night, Shirley had always believed this. But now, his casual promise to Martha made her snap back to

she thought he did. In

simply couldn't understand why he had been so kind to her. Why had he

comfort.