Todos os capítulos de My Straight-Laced Ex Won't Let Me Go: Capítulo 31 - Capítulo 40

Ian received word of Zoe's trip almost as soon as she set off. Without hesitation, he abandoned his work and boarded his private jet to follow her.He didn't dare approach her. Instead, he kept his distance, watching almost greedily as her brightly colored figure moved across the snow. Every turn she made seemed to pull at an invisible thread around his heart, tightening it with anxiety.Then disaster struck.Zoe was attempting an exceptionally steep, icy slope when a deep, thunderous rumble echoed across the mountains."Avalanche!" someone screamed in terror.Ian's heart nearly stopped.He watched helplessly as an enormous wall of snow came crashing down the mountainside, swallowing everything in its path. Within seconds, the entire area where Zoe had been skiing disappeared beneath the white torrent.The world seemed to lose all color and sound. All Ian could see was the blinding white of the avalanche, all he could hear was its deafening roar."ZOE!"His anguished scream tore throug

He told her how Ian had swallowed his pride time and again, chasing her around the world like a lovesick teenager, following wherever she went but never daring to get close enough to do more than watch from a distance."Mrs. Grant..." Daniel's voice cracked with emotion. "Mr. Grant was raised from childhood to be the perfect heir, almost like a machine programmed to take over the family business. He was taught to never show his emotions, to always maintain control and follow the rules. Those principles were drilled into him so deeply that they're practically part of who he is."He struggled to continue."Maybe... maybe he genuinely doesn't know how to love someone the way a normal person would. He thought what he felt for Ms. Sullivan was love, but eventually he realized it was more about rebelling against the restrictions he'd grown up with. She represented everything he'd been denied in his youth, everything he'd never allowed himself to experience."Daniel paused, his voice growing

Eventually, the elders of the Grant family could no longer stand by and watch.Ian had been groomed from childhood to inherit the family empire, yet he'd become so obsessed with a woman that he was willing to make a public spectacle of himself. His increasingly reckless behavior was threatening both the family's business interests and its reputation.Several senior family members arrived at the lakeside mansion together, determined to confront him in his study one last time."Ian," began his great-uncle, Arthur Grant, the eldest of the group, pushing a document across the desk. His expression was grave. "This is the family council's final decision. If you insist on continuing down this path, sacrificing the Grant family's reputation and abandoning your responsibilities over a woman, we'll have no choice but to begin proceedings to strip you of your inheritance. Think very carefully about what you're doing."The thick document represented everything the Grant family stood for: immense w

Finally, Daniel's eyes reddened as he told her, "Mrs. Grant, Mr. Grant has kept that USB drive with your photographs and diaries on him at all times. Even during the car accident, when his phone was smashed to pieces, he somehow managed to protect the drive from being damaged. He told me... it was his whole life."Zoe looked from the unconscious man lying in the hospital bed to the tiny, half-charred USB drive Daniel had placed on the bedside table. A strange warmth spread through her chest, bringing with it an aching tenderness that was almost painful.One day, when Ian was feeling a little stronger, he asked Zoe to bring him his tablet. Even the simple act of operating it seemed to exhaust him, but he persisted, determined to show her everything.He opened the diaries he'd discovered on her USB drive, along with the detailed accounts he'd subsequently uncovered of all the sacrifices she'd quietly made for him throughout their marriage. He showed her his own confessions, too, laying b

After leaving the hospital, Ian seemed like a completely different man.He still got jealous when Zoe spent a little too long discussing camera angles and composition with a male photographer, but instead of retreating behind his usual icy silence, he'd pull her into his arms and complain with a mixture of possessiveness and wounded affection."Zoe, I don't like it when you spend so much time looking at other men."She'd laugh and poke his cheek. "Ian Grant, are you seriously being this childish?"He'd also learned to set aside his pride and accompany her on adventures he'd once considered ridiculous. He went camping with her in the Salaran Desert, listening to her terrible ghost stories beneath a sky full of stars and obligingly pretending to be frightened. In Iskaria, they danced beneath the northern lights like a pair of fools. His movements were hopelessly stiff, but he laughed with the uninhibited delight of a child.More importantly, Ian had learned to express his feelings. Ever