Chapter 489
At that moment, Zoe burst into tears.
Held in his embrace, she leaned on his shoulder and buried her face in his black overcoat, looking fair and graceful.
On top of that, he held a fast grip on her waist.
Her hips were pressed tightly against his groin as she wrapped her arms around him. Her tears proceeded to drench his coat on the neck area. It felt wet, warm, and uncomfortable, but he didn’t care. All he wanted was to hug her at that moment.
It was the first time in a long time since they had held each other in this way.
It was much longer since they had embraced each other under the glow of the sun. They had only ever hugged each other in the dark of night when no one could see them. In them, there lay a sorrow and bitterness that only both of them knew.
They had sought physical pleasure from each other a lot of times, but it always seemed their intimacy could last no longer than one night.
Lowering his head, he stared into her eyes.
His voice was husky and gentle when he said, “Come back to me and be my wife once again.”
Zoe held him back tightly. She didn’t say anything. Instead, she responded by shaking her head uncontrollably as tears rolled down her cheeks. She wept without a sound, trying and failing to hold back her tears.
She had spent countless nights worrying about him. The idea of him never pulling himself together had kept her awake for so many nights.
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But, now, he was finally able to stand!
Happiness was a complete understatement of what she was feeling right now.
In fact, she straight-up lost control of herself!
He kept calling out to her, but she didn’t dare respond to him because she was crying. She was trembling all over because she had no idea how she should face him now.
She didn’t know how to deal with him, now that he was fully recovered.
The gentle ray of sunlight steadily shone down on them while they kept embracing each other. At that moment, they weren’t a married couple, nor were they parents or anything. This hug brought them straight back to that summer when she was still an eighteen-year-old
girl.
He was so fierce when he told her he forbade her to fall in love with
him back then!
Now, however, he was holding her and talking to her in the most affectionate tone she had ever heard.
“Come back to me and be my wife once again.”
After a long time, she managed to recompose herself. Her nose was red and her lips were trembling, but she kept her head nestled in his warm neck and said ever so softly, “I no longer dare to love you, Mason! You’re doing great now, though. You can always…”
His grip on her waist tightened in response.
In fact, he was holding her so tight that he was almost squashing her. She raised her head and looked into his eyes. She couldn’t read into them. There was something in them that she couldn’t understand.
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After a brief moment, he said softly, “I could never love anyone else!” The next thing she knew, he kissed her.
He was so tall that he enveloped her entirely as he showered her with deep, passionate kisses. Her body trembled and her legs were trembling so hard that she simply couldn’t stand anymore. So, she ended up leaning on him tightly.
Underneath her slender palms, she could feel his steady heartbeat.
Thump-thump… Thump-thump…
After a long time, she finally came back to her senses and pushed him away. They were only a step away when she looked at him, sorrow in her eyes. She simply couldn’t let it go.
So, she said softly again, “It’s over between us, Mason!”
Staring at her calmly, he asked, “What about our kids? Are they supposed to have stepparents in the future?”
Blinking softly, she said, “Stop trying to guilt trip me, Mason. That’s not how live works! We can raise them together even if we aren’t
marric
have
or that matter, having new relationships doesn’t mean we
e them less.
the point, aren’t you the one who asked me to leave you ave no intention of pointing fingers, Mason. I certainly don’t be hysterical about the fact that things between us have
to an end.
last thing I want is to feel like I’m always hanging onto a piece of wood while being stranded in the sea that is our relationship, ver able to plant my feet on solid ground.”
ears began to well up in her eyes.
If they were tears of joy earlier, then they contain nothing more than
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