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But she didn’t notice the cold look on Marvin’s face.
Even though she kept getting closer, he always avoided her.
The scent he used to love didn’t interest him at all anymore.
That’s when he realized that it was me he’d been missing all along.
the!
Not just anyone could calm his restless heart, and no one could replace
three years we had together.
we had togoll
“You used to say you loved me, but you married someone else, like it meant nothing.
“Now you expect me to care about you? Then what about your husband?
What about me?
“Luciana, not just anyone is qualified to stand by my side.‘
Luciana’s eyes went wide. She couldn’t believe the same man who once begged to marry her was now treating her like she meant nothing.
Marvin called out to the bodyguards outside the door. “Take Ms. Luciana away. Tell her husband that if he can’t keep his wife in check, I’ll lock her up myself and make sure she never sees daylight again!”
Still, no matter how hard Marvin looked into it, he always found the same result I had ended my life, and no one else was to blame.
Soon, Ronan rushed in, but not with my news.
“Mr. Berman! I found proof! Ms. Eleanor was being framed!
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“On the day she had a miscarriage, it was Ms. Luciana who brought
people to beat her on purpose. She even told her to stop dreaming about marrying someone above her level, and said she’d make sure Ms. Eleanor would never be able to have kids again!”
Ronan handed him a video file.
“Ms. Luciana destroyed the original surveillance footage, but we managed
to recover a backup. It clearly shows her ordering the bodyguards to attack Ms. Eleanor!
J’And when she faked being sick that night, it was all a setup! She paid off the doctor to lie so she could hurt Ms. Eleanor again!”
Marvin watched the video over and over, more than ten times, until the stress made him cough up blood.
Back then, he had chosen to stand by Luciana and turn a blind eye to me.
He never thought that one wrong decision could hurt me so badly.
“Announce this to every news outlet in Austin. Luciana dared to harm my wife. If anyone helps her or her father’s family from now on, I’ll make sure they lose everything and never get another chance to do business in Austin!”
Austin’s media exploded with the news that day.
No one could believe that the usually cold and emotionless Marvin had finally admitted he was in love.
And for my sake, he turned his former beloved into an outcast, no longer the rich and beautiful woman in Austin, but someone everyone avoided.
But none of this ever reached my ears.
After I left with Ethan, he quit the assassin’s life and decided to work in
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Al programming instead.
During this year, I started learning programming from him, slowly turning what used to be a hobby into a skill to make a living.
After that, Ethan chose to stop living in the shadows. He stepped forward and was recruited by an international tech company.
The company accepted us both as a married team, working together.
With my programming skills, I started teaching classes, hoping to inspire girls like me who had been stuck in toxic family situations.
One day, a colleague joked around and asked why I ended up with someone as silent and serious as Ethan.
“Eleanor, you’re smart and beautiful. There must be tons of good–looking guys chasing you, right?
“Ethan is extremely quiet and dull. How on earth did you end up falling for him?”
Right after saying that, it suddenly felt like someone had switched on the air conditioner nearby–a chill swept in from head to toe.
We turned and saw Ethan walking up to us.
When the colleague noticed, he backed away quickly, not wanting to get caught in the cold atmosphere.
But I didn’t care one bit. I grabbed his hand and smiled. “Let’s go home.”
Ethan gave a slight frown and paused longer than usual. “Eleanor, I have some bad news.
It was clear he had thought hard before speaking, but what he said made my chest tighten with dread.
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“Eleanor, that man found out you’re still alive.
“It won’t be long before he comes looking.”
