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MY CRUEL HUSBAND CHAPTER 56
THE REGRET Michael’s POVI don’t remember deciding to go to the club. I only remember driving.The city lights blurred past me as if they were running away too, neon streaks cutting through the dark like open wounds. My hands were tight on the steering wheel, knuckles white, jaw locked so hard my teeth ached. Every breath burned.Her face kept flashing before me. The room and the stranger. The sound.I hit the brakes outside a nightclub I’d been to once—long ago, when recklessness still felt like freedom. Music thumped through the walls, heavy and aggressive, vibrating the pavement. I parked without care and stepped inside, letting the noise swallow me whole.The smell of alcohol, sweat, and false laughter hit me instantly.“Wine,” I barked at the bartender, dropping into a stool. “Your the most exotic.”He didn’t ask questions. He just poured. I drank like I was trying to drown something that refused to die.Glass after glass burned down my throat. The music grew louder. The lights
MY CRUEL HUSBAND CHAPTER 55
I CAUGHT HERMichael’s POVI didn’t know that a life could fracture in a single night.When I pulled into the driveway, the mansion stood the way it always did—tall, immaculate, quiet. The kind of quiet that used to mean peace. I turned off the engine and sat there longer than necessary, my forehead resting briefly against the steering wheel. Work had drained me. Meetings, contracts, decisions that never seemed to end. All I wanted was rest. Home.I drove inside the open space in front of my mansion, stepped out gently because I can't even rush out. I was exhausted.I stepped inside, loosening my tie as the door shut behind me.The living room lights were low. Too low. The house felt… off. Not silent—just unnaturally still, as if it were holding its breath.Then I heard it. A sound drifted down from upstairs.At first, I convinced myself it was nothing. The air conditioner. A television left on. But the sound came again—soft, breathy, unmistakably human. My stomach tightened.I stood
MY CRUEL HUSBAND CHAPTER 53
POSSIBLE CASEAnne's POV “Thank you for giving me the chance to express my love to you,” Maxwell tendered his appreciation to me, still holding my hand tightly. His cheeks flushed with quiet admiration and excitement.I looked down to grab my drink on the table. “I would be happy if love doesn't betray me this time. I would be exceedingly grateful.” I sipped from the cup and settled it on the table. A short moment of silence stretched between us, and I am sure my word caused it. Probably thinking I am still doubting his sincerity but past affection had damaged my heart seriously.“Are you doubting my sincerity, Anne?” He asked, very curious and urgent. I dropped his hand, fixed my eyes on him before I could speak. “No,” I replied firmly, my voice sounded hollow. “But your word said it.” He insisted, desperately staring into my eyes for a quick answer and confirmation.I feigned surprise. My face darkened and my eyes narrowed. “I didn't! I only wish love should not hurt me like th
MY CRUEL HUSBAND CHAPTER 52
CLING TO ANOTHER HOPEAnne's POVI read the message once. Then again.And a third time—slowly, deliberately, as though the meaning might change if I lingered on it long enough.I know you have suffered heartbreak and betrayal from a past marriage and relationship, but I promise to keep you and marry you. I love you with all my heart, and I won’t betray you. I give you my assurance. Even if you don’t trust me yet, give me a chance to prove it.My chest rose with a deep inhale that felt heavier than it should have been.This is how it always starts, a voice inside me whispered.Give me a chance. Trust me. I’m not like the others.I closed my eyes briefly, the kitchen light blurring behind my lashes.“This is how they begin,” I murmured to the empty room. “With promises. With certainty. Until everything collapses.”Yet even as the words left my mouth, they didn’t feel solid enough to hold me in place.I set the phone face-down on the counter and turned back to the stove, forcing myself in
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MORE OPPORTUNITIES.Anne POVI didn’t walk away because I didn’t feel it. I walked away because I felt too much.The moment my lips parted—I trembled at the edge of my tongue—the past surged forward like a violent tide. Uninvited and highly merciless. Crystal’s laughter echoed first, sharp and cruel, the memory of her betrayal cutting through me as vividly as the day I discovered it. Then Michael—my husband—standing cold and distant, humiliation written into every word he spoke when he chose abandonment over vows. Over me.It all collided at once. Love had never left me gently. It always arrived with promise—and departed with damage.So when Maxwell’s voice followed me, urgent and raw—“Anne, wait. Please—”—I didn’t stop.Because stopping meant risking everything I had only just begun to rebuild.I felt his presence behind me, close enough to feel the pull of it, the gravity of a man who didn’t ask halfway. A man who was intentional. Consistent. Dangerous in his sincerity. His words
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THE PROPOSAL Maxwell POV.Zainab stepped in slowly, closing the door behind her with deliberate care, as though the room itself might bruise if handled too roughly. Her eyes flicked from my face to the chair opposite me, then back again. She read the air instantly—she always had.“I’m sorry,” she said softly. “I shouldn’t have stayed earlier. I didn’t mean to intrude.”“You didn’t,” I replied, though my voice was still rough from everything that had passed. “Today unraveled more than a crime.”She nodded, understanding settling into her features. “I only wanted to check on you. And… to say thank you. You didn’t have to fight the way you did. But you did.”“I did what was right.”A small, grateful smile appeared. “That’s rarer than people think.”She lingered a moment longer, then added quietly, “Anne is… fragile in places she doesn’t show. Be careful with her.”“I intend to be,” I said.That seemed to satisfy her. She excused herself after a few more minutes, leaving the room once a
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