Marriage Beyond Redemption

Chapter 31 Can You Feel Her Pain?

Nolan didn’t say a word. He stood there with a sullen face, glaring at

Peyton.

His Adam’s apple moved. “I wish it had nothing to do with you. That day, you stayed in the cemetery for three hours. Tell me what you were doing there.”

Peyton just felt it was very funny. “I told you I was visiting Grandma’s grave. I have no one to talk to. Was it wrong for me to say something before her grave? That is a tombstone. How could I break it? Even if you want to frame me, show me the evidence.”

“Take a good look. What’s this?”

Nolan took out some photos of Peyton with a hammer in her hand. Peyton froze.

“An old man working in the cemetery dropped his tool, so I picked it up for him.”

Peyton didn’t know how someone had taken such a picture. She

anxiously explained, “I just said a few words at Paula’s grave. It was fine when I left. Nolan, believe me. Why would I do that? What good would that do me?”

Seeing Peyton argue in a panic, Nolan only felt she was ridiculous. He lifted her chin with his slender fingers and pressed his fingertips against her lips. “Why are you lying with such a pretty mouth? Lucian has already admitted that he told you about Paula’s grave and that you hired a private detective.”

Knowing that nothing could be hidden from Nolan, Peyton admitted

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I went to Grandma’s grave after just placing a bouquet in front of Paula’s grave, not to mention that I… I am sick. I

all except for your family. Tell me who else would have destroyed her gravestone two years after she died.”

I did that?”

was cold to you for the past two years. You blamed me for not saving the baby and making your family go bankrupt. You hated me, and you hated Paula even more, who made your

her head repeatedly. “No…”

up your mind. to divorce me, but suddenly, you wanted to spend another month with me. What are you plotting? You want to take revenge for Kason, don’t you?”

rolled down. She felt that at this moment, she was unable to defend herself. She kept shaking her head. “No, I never

explanations. He pinched Peyton’s jaw hard, his eyes flashing with disappointment.

know how much I wish this had nothing to do with you. I’ve had people looking for evidence all day, trying to prove that you’re innocent. All I’ve found is this.

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wake Kason up by getting back at

who was at a loss for

was a great insult to her and the Dalton

finally landed on Peyton’s slender neck.

the village where she once lived. It is desolate and barren. Most people there starve. She was abducted and sold there. Since childhood, she had been locked in the woodshed. She used to be the little princess of the Dalton family, but she was enslaved there. She suffered for so many years and managed to come to Aelford City. Obviously, I would have found her if she had held

her neck. Suffocating, she pushed Nolan with her hands. She kept crying,

sad memories. “She was humiliated by Kason, that brute. She was strangled and stuffed into a box. How desperate she was! See, just like you are now.

Peyton struggled, but to no

as if he were a

breath. She knew she would be killed by him if