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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bouquet in front of Paula’s grave,

Paula lived as Leilani until her death. She had no enemies at all except for your family. Tell

I

baby and making your family go bankrupt. You hated me, and you hated Paula even

shook her head repeatedly.

you wanted to spend another month with me. What

She felt that at this moment, she was unable to defend herself. She kept shaking her head.

of her explanations. He pinched Peyton’s

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. Today you made a trip to the

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her! You think you can wake Kason up by getting back at others?”

all on Peyton, who

a

landed on Peyton’s slender neck. He gradually tightened

to 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

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

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

go!” Peyton struggled, but to

were a beast that had lost his

out of breath. She knew she would be killed by him if it continued like this. She had