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chapter eighty six.

Author: Esswrites
last update publish date: 2026-10-27 19:20:31

Ethan's POV

​"What did you say?" she asked me in disbelief, her eyes widening in pure shock.

​"If I'm willing to end my marriage... will you still have me?" I asked, my voice laced with desperate hope.

​She glared at me, her posture stiffening, though she managed to keep her voice strictly low so as not to draw a crowd. "As what?" she demanded coldly. "A woman who broke another woman's home?"

​I opened my mouth to defend myself, to tell her that my marriage was already dead, but the intensity i
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