Pursuing My Ex-Wife Isn’t Easy

“I had to attend to a social obligation, and I drank a little.” John smiled when he met Anne’s gaze. He sat next to her on the bed and put his arm around her shoulder.

She had lost so much weight that all he could feel were her bones poking through her skin. Although she had always been a slender woman in the past, she was at least healthy. Alas, that was no longer the case.

John sighed. “Robyn told me you’d slept. Why aren’t you asleep, then?”

Anne pursed her lips and began typing on her phone feebly. [ I heard everything you said to Robyn.]

John was silent for a moment before he kissed her forehead. “Anne, I truly think that…you wouldn’t have ended up this way if it weren’t for me.

blamed you for getting mixed up with the wrong crowd and even turned down Joshua’s help, but the truth is, I can’t help blaming myself for everything. If you hadn’t chosen to be with me and had settled down with someone from Joshua, Luna, or Bonnie’s social circle, you wouldn’t have ended up like

friends with. It’s your freedom, after all. I

as he spoke.

her lip and shook her head. She cupped John’s face with her bony hands and

his arms. “No one would ever dare to do this to you if I’m as powerful as Joshua. Bonnie is Luna’s friend too, yet no one tried to do this to her. It’s all because they know how useless

of pulling John out of his negative emotions, so she

Why don’t we just give up trying? Even if I undergo all the surgeries, there’s no guarantee that I’ll return to