Chapter 49: I’ll never divorce Ava.
Dylan stood silently by the door, his face impassive. His hand brushed against the doorknob, but he made no move to open it. He would never let her go to that man. If he needed to, he would lock her up for the rest of her life.
"If you keep cursing me, I’ll never open the door."
"Huh!" Ava scowled, her frustration growing by the second.
"You used to say you loved me," Dylan muttered, the cracks in his icy demeanor starting to show. "Now you hate me. "It seems that your love for me is cheap. You lost it in just one year of our marriage."
"One year?" Ava sneered, her heart twisting at his words. In her past life, her blind devotion to him had cost her everything—her father, her family’s fortune, and even her own life, along with the life of their unborn child.
In this life, she wouldn’t lose anything.
"You think it’s only been a year," she shot back fiercely. "You have no idea of the pain I’ve endured every single day. Do you even realize how many nights I stayed up waiting for you, making dinner, hoping you’d come home on time?"
Her voice cracked, but she forced herself to continue. "Every night, after a long day at work, I was exhausted, but I still made sure to cook for you. I dressed up, thinking maybe you’d notice, maybe you’d appreciate it. But you never did."
Her heart clenched at her naivety. Tears welled in her eyes, but she blinked them back, a bitter smile tugging at her lips. "I longed for just a little warmth, a small sign that you cared. But all you ever gave me was cold indifference, like I didn’t matter." Her voice faltered for a moment, her chest heavy. "You took everything from me—every bit of love I had for you, and you crushed it. Slowly, day by day, you made me regret loving you in the first place."