Chapter 46: I let you go.
"What good is love?" Denis scoffed with cynicism. "Can it bring your father back to consciousness? Can it pay his medical bills? Love doesn’t exist, Anne. It’s all just a transaction—give and take. You do something for me, and I return the favor. That’s how the world works."
He took a step closer, his gaze dark and insistent. "Where is love in any of that? Come back to me. Be mine like before, and I’ll give you everything you want. Money, power—name it, and it’s yours. That’s the only thing that really matters."
Anne sneered to herself. A storm of emotions raged inside her—anger, regret, and an overwhelming sense of betrayal. She had wasted ten years loving a man who saw emotions as nothing more than leverage, a game to manipulate. Every word he uttered only fueled the disgust curling in her chest.
She despised herself for being so blind, for not recognizing his true nature sooner. She wanted to know how he was planning to live with two women in his life.
"What about Tania and her baby?" she demanded, tilting her head as if trying to see through the mask he wore. "Are you planning to abandon her?"
"Don’t concern yourself with Tania," he said dismissively. "Just focus on yourself. I will take care of your happiness."
Anne let out a cold laugh, shaking her head in disbelief. Unbelievable.
"You’re disgusting," she spat, stepping back as revulsion twisted in her gut. "You want to juggle two women like some kind of sick game? You got Tania pregnant, yet you still want me? Do you actually think I’d accept that? Never. I will never come back to you."
She turned sharply, striding toward the door. But before she could reach it, his hand shot out, gripping her arm and pulling her back with brutal force. She stumbled backward, crashing into his solid chest.