Return, My Love: Wooing the Neglected Ex-Wife

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es the juiciest slice of

ate, he never forgets to b

He picked up a blessing ch

r plain white dress. She wasn't strikingly beautiful, but there was a

like a spy, was eager to glimpse

snippets of her life with her boyfriend wer

on Joelle's own birthday-Rebecca was with Adrian Miller, her so-called husban

"Countdown To Death." That was t

t on the ominous name, the

lders tapering to a narrow waist, clad only in a towel

ng, his striking featu

and gazed at him, lost in thought. It had be

was here not

te for a great-grandchild, which compelled him to

drian seldom visited home, spendi

edge that he held n

a marriage that ex

pregnant or not is in the hands of fate," A

s he im

seized her ankle and yanked her towards him

wel, and with a forceful motion

tearing fil

, her bare chest exposed i

as she faced his cruelty,

op, I don't

gles. Being forced into such a situation with the m

u dared to drug me once; you should hav

fluttering like wounded butterflies. She looked up at his stern f

arp cry. She gripped the bed shee

ve her head, his expression

gh, deep thrust that mad

resistance fading as despair took hold

e floor and wrapped it around himself. "You've learned; playing hard to get is far more in

thout a backward glance, as thou

ers seemed to cleanse him of her, as i

role in his life. Was she merel

his family's expect

de open, letting in

wing the blanket tig

mble. Her heart felt as if it had been torn apart, a

or nearly eight years wa

ler family, Joelle had overindulged in wine. When she had

her brother and several members of the

Adrian's grandmother had taken the re

convinced that Joelle ha

nd animosity, even if he believed she had drugg

she und

ut the nefarious woman who had sabo

Rebecca's videos-always so gentle and attentive. It dawned on h

e she numbly cast aside the blanket, climbed out of

nitially shivered as the water c

r, she saw how ghostly pale her face

back her tears any longer and s

sleep was restle

f dreaming of their earlier days whe

led sleep, Joelle r

ped into some casual clothes

le descending and promptly set the table with bre

th breakfast, eating sl

stay last night? It's not often he comes home," Leah

y years, witnessing the growth of Joelle and Adrian

sed Joelle's features before she

e didn't stay,"

drian close physically,

ak Villas, home to the

aybe it's because Mr. Miller is so tied up with the compan

ree years ago, Leah had come to understand th

with it a heartfelt

bbled on her toast, her eyes watering

ade time for Rebecca. He frequented Redempti

ule, he never missed spe

le's phone brok

picked up her phone and found her b

divorce," Joelle sa