I turned to Owen. “What gives your first love the right to question me?”
Vanessa looked at Owen, her eyes soft and affectionate
I saw Owen’s gaze flickered for a moment, and a bitter laugh almost escaped me. Her words clearly affected him.
Owen’s face darkened at my lack of reaction. He then snapped at Vanessa, “Stay out of it! If you hadn’t gotten involved back then, Audrey and I would’ve been married by now. We’d probably have kids, too.”
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Then, he turned to me. “Will you come back to me, Audrey? If you can’t bear her, I’ll ensure she’s gone, whether from this city or the entire world. You won’t ever have to see her again.”
His gaze was soft and yearning as it lingered on me, but it turned cold with contempt when it landed on
Vanessa.
I would have been overjoyed by that once, convinced it meant he cared for me. But now, all I felt was a hollow sense of disinterest.
I couldn’t shake the memories of how I had been treated with disdain in my past life, and the bitterness gnawed at me.
I shook my head, saying, “I won’t get a divorce or reconcile with you, Owen. Let go of these foolish hopes.”
His face grew colder with each passing second. He wrenched Vanessa’s hair and slammed her head down before me, her blood pooling on the ground.
“What else do you want from me, Audrey? If you agree to divorce Reuben, I swear I’d love you more than he ever could! And I’d never leave you!”
I shook my head violently, struggling to free myself.
Owen seized me, his face contorted in anger as he growled, “You think you can leave me? Keep dreaming.
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He leaned down and pressed his lips to mine, and I felt bile rise in my throat. I shoved him off me with all my might before turning away to retch.
