Chapter 706

“Ophelia, do we really have to be enemies?” Kian asked, seeing nothing but coldness in her eyes.

His heart sank. He missed how her gaze used to shine with love, like sunlight at noon. That warmth was long gone.

“You made your choice,” Ophelia said, laughing bitterly. “Now you want to backtrack? That’s pathetic. We’re not kids. You can’t have everything.”

He had made his decision—siding with his mother, meeting up with Teresa again and again. That killed whatever future they had left. She could never forgive a husband with a “sister” always hovering or a mother-in-law who practically forced a mistress on her.

Let someone else deal with that. She was done.

“But I chose you,” Kian said, desperate. “I’m cleaning up the mess online. I’ll handle my mother. Can we try again?”