Chapter 256

Rosalie said calmly, “Nobody’s perfect. Everyone has their flaws. I make mistakes, too. No matter what we’re already divorced. We should go our separate ways and have nothing to do with each other. I don’t want to end up like your parents.”

The thought of his parents made Theodore’s eyes dim.

“My dad was right. I ended up walking the same path he did.”

Rosalie’s heart tugged. She hung her head low, and fell silent.

People never learn their lesson. Many things happened in the past to prove that what they did was a mistake that would result in painful. consequences, yet those who come after them continue insisting on doing the same things.

Perhaps that was a wicked streak in humans, carved in their genes. The more they know it’s a mistake, the more they would choose to do

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That was the way to go, according to their logic.

“But there is a difference,” Theodore went on to say. “My mother really loved my father back then, and it was precisely because of her deep love for him that she ended up broken–hearted and depressed. But things are different for us, Rose. You don’t love me, which is why you can be even happier after divorcing me. You once said that you had enough of such a marriage. You’re now free.”

Rosalie was stunned, at a loss for words. Her heart trembled, and she felt suffocated.

stared at Rosalie, who remained silent. “You don’t love me, do you? That’s how we’re different from

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parents.”

Even he questioned the truth of his statement upon

hem of her shirt tight, and clenched

you for so many years, but you

I love you? Would you

the truth, I’d look as miserable and

of telling you that I love you? I’d rather preserve my dignity and give you a good reason to divorce me–and tell you that your wife doesn’t love you.

is best for

called out to her and grabbed her wrist,

me?”

shone like burning flame, reflecting his eagerness to hear her answer. Her hesitation made his heart

in Theodore’s eyes, and thought she

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