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Chapter 6

مؤلف: Nora Blythe
Elle found herself thrown out. She stood outside the door, a sharp pain stabbing through her chest.

Max had actually sold the house, and she hadn't heard a word of it. If he'd sold the house, where had he gone?

Elle fumbled her phone out of her bag and dialed Max's number. No one picked up. When she tried again, all she got was the same cold automated message.

Elle had never felt this panicked before. In all their years together, no matter how busy Max was, he'd always answered when she call
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  • Third Time's the Last Straw   Chapter 8

    I hadn't expected Elle to show up at my wedding. She wasn't on the guest list, and no one had invited her. I hadn't seen her in months, and she'd lost a noticeable amount of weight, standing there out of place among the tables. I looked away and focused on sliding the ring onto my wife's finger.Elle pushed through the crowd and marched straight up to the stage. Gryphen City's celebrated businesswoman now stood there like any common shrew off the street, eyes rimmed red, demanding an answer. "Max, what is this supposed to mean? Did you already decide to leave me from the start? Do you have any idea how long I've been looking for you?"She pointed at Lacey Matthews standing beside me. "How could you marry someone else? How could you sell our house?"I pulled my hand free of Elle's grip, feeling, for the first time, genuinely fed up with her. My tone came out distant. "I'm sorry, but today is my wedding day. Please don't disrupt it."I thought I'd made myself clear enough. But

  • Third Time's the Last Straw   Chapter 7

    Forty-eight hours passed, and Elle still had no word of Max. She went to the police. "My ex-husband is missing, and I can't reach him by phone. Please, you have to help me find him."She'd never begged anyone like that before in her life. Wound up so tight, Elle finally fainted. By the time she was rushed to the hospital, the doctor's examination turned up something else: she was pregnant."That's impossible! You must have made a mistake. There's no way I'm pregnant." She and Rob had been together plenty of times, but they'd always been careful about protection. There was no way she could be pregnant. Elle refused to believe it, but the results on the pregnancy test made it plain: she was.Something seemed to click for her, and ignoring the doctor's objections, she went straight to find Rob. What she found instead was the sound of his friends laughing. "I can't believe you actually poked a hole in the condom. If Elle gets pregnant, there's no way she and Max can get back tog

  • Third Time's the Last Straw   Chapter 6

    Elle found herself thrown out. She stood outside the door, a sharp pain stabbing through her chest. Max had actually sold the house, and she hadn't heard a word of it. If he'd sold the house, where had he gone?Elle fumbled her phone out of her bag and dialed Max's number. No one picked up. When she tried again, all she got was the same cold automated message.Elle had never felt this panicked before. In all their years together, no matter how busy Max was, he'd always answered when she called. Lately, though, she'd noticed his phone going unanswered, sometimes taking several tries before he picked up, and she'd assumed it was just more of the same. But now she'd been standing under a streetlight for what felt like forever, dialing nearly a hundred times, and still nothing.She kept dialing mechanically, not snapping out of it until her phone warned her the battery was almost dead. She had no idea what to do next. Max's sudden disappearance had left her mind blank, without even

  • Third Time's the Last Straw   Chapter 5

    A faint sound of footsteps outside snapped Elle back to her senses. She pushed Rob away, an uneasy feeling rising in her chest, growing sharper by the second. "There are only three days left before I remarry Max. Let's not contact each other again after this."Rob's brow furrowed at that, a flash of displeasure crossing his eyes. He wrapped his arms around Elle from behind. "We've been doing this for years. Max's used to it by now. Next year, on my birthday, just find another excuse to divorce him again. Look at this time. He didn't even put up a fight. Isn't that convenient for you?"Every word out of Rob's mouth dripped with contempt for Max. In the past, Elle never bothered to argue when he talked like that. This time, though, it left her genuinely irritated. Maybe it was Rob's own words that had finally woken her up.These past few days, she'd gone to find Max again and again, only to be turned away every time, always the same excuse: he was too busy with work. Even her text

  • Third Time's the Last Straw   Chapter 4

    Elle rushed to explain, her words tumbling out of order. "I know this whole stretch hasn't been fair to you, but I mean it, there won't be a next time. There's only a week left before the month's up. If you really want to, we can go get the marriage license right now." She started tugging me toward the door as she spoke.I didn't move. Elle turned back to look at me. I shook my head. "No need. You still haven't finished whatever you promised Rob. There's no rush. It's just a week. I can wait."In her heart, Rob would always come first. Rather than waste more time, I figured it was better to end things sooner. So I invoked his name deliberately, and whatever hope had started rising in Elle shrank back down. Her fingers, still curled around my wrist, loosened their grip. In the end, she didn't say anything more.In the days that followed, Elle turned into a different person. To make it up to me, she started showering me with anything expensive she could think of, luxury cars,

  • Third Time's the Last Straw   Chapter 3

    The living room light snapped on. The glare made me squint. Elle had woken up, still a little drunk. She padded over barefoot and looped her arms around my neck from behind. "Why aren't you asleep? Still upset with me? I know I've wronged you. From now on, whatever you want, I'll give it to you."She cupped my face in her hands, her eyes dead serious. "A house, a car, even company shares. Take your pick." I'd heard that kind of promise too many times before. It was as if, every time she did something wrong, throwing money at me was her way of making up for it.She rambled on, then pulled a velvet box from her pocket. Inside sat a brand-new wedding band. Before I could refuse, she was already forcing it onto my finger. It didn't fit. It caught halfway, stuck at the second knuckle.I stared at the ring. It hadn't been bought for me. It had been bought for Rob. It took Elle a long moment to realize her mistake, and her face fell. She pulled the ring off, then leaned in to kis

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