Lahat ng Kabanata ng The 18 Billion Wife He Abandoned : Kabanata 201 - Kabanata 210

POV: Elena I couldn't focus in first period. Ms. Rodriguez was talking about criminal justice reform, about redemption narratives in modern literature, but all I could think about was Dad's face when he'd dropped me off. The way his hands had gripped the steering wheel like he was trying to keep s

POV: Nova I found Elena in her room at midnight, still awake, staring at her phone. "Sweetheart, it's late. You have school tomorrow." She looked up, and I saw something in her eyes I'd never seen before. Not quite fear. Not quite anger. Something harder to define. "Mom, can I ask you something?

"Then I'll just keep wondering. Keep questioning. Keep reading his book and his articles and everything he's saying to the world." Elena's voice was steady. Determined. "You can control what I do, but you can't control what I think." She left. We heard her bedroom door close. Kai and I looked at e

I drove Elena to school, using the new route that avoided passing Darren's foundation office. She noticed. "This isn't the usual way." "New route. Faster." "It's three blocks longer, Dad. I checked on my phone." She paused. "You're avoiding his foundation building." No point lying. "Yes." "Do y

"Maybe. Or maybe you're so scared of him that you can't see he's different now." "What would it take?" Dad asked quietly. "What would he have to do to prove to you that I'm right?" "I don't know. Show his real face, I guess. Let the mask slip." "And if he never does? If he's perfected the act so