Rebirth of the Wife in Despair

Chapter 24

Chapter 24 What Had Gone Wrong?

The moon shone gently into the window as Eileen walked downstairs in her pajamas.

She rarely got out of bed in the middle of the night, but wanted a drink of water and saw that her flask was empty.

Eileen bumbled down the stairs blearily, and got a fright at the black figure on the couch.

“Ahh!” She woke up at once.

The person on the couch got to his feet, turning the light on..

The brightness made Eileen squint, making out who it was.

“Eric? What are you doing here? Why didn’t you go home?”

The living room smelt faintly of alcohol. It was coming from Eric.

Was he back from a night of networking again?

Also… what was he doing here, instead of going home to Vera?

Eileen and Eric had been married for eight years, but she had no idea this time what he was

up to.

Eric stumbled over to her, getting closer.

Eileen was right in front of a wall, and there was nowhere she could run.

Eric walked right up to her. He glanced at the girl in front of him, and her flushed chest.

It was a brief glance, but Eileen still caught the glint in his

eyes.

The way his breathing was rushed.

This was the kind of gaze that had the power to break Eileen.

She knew that Eric was not the kind of person to sleep around.

At least, not before what happened to Vera.

Eric had lost himself in alcohol and sex after Vera’s death, and had had a good deal of

women,

Eric would never dare to do

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trembled, and she tried to fake being

himself up against the wall, blocking her

chest lurched, her

is there anything

second. His gaze seemed to bore into her,

was overwhelming.

also recked of alcohol, making Eileen

pushed a lock of Eileen’s hair behind her car. “Eileen, have I done anything wrong recently

“N-no…”

wall, her hands balled into fists as she kept her head bowed.

it feel like you’re

it because of Vera?”

mmm?”

All he had to do was look down, and he would be able to see all of Eileen under her thin

had seen it too, her waist that

else as well…

God knows how many men she would. conquer as she grew older.

I didn’t know any better before, but I do now. That’s why I think it’s better we keep a distance from each other, so Vera doesn’t

Eric said in a

of him, two

her head, her gaze pitiful

looked only made Eric want

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her, staring into her soul.

reason, his gaze felt gentle to her.

Eric was supposed

only looked cold, disgusted and

never been like

had gone

done nothing.

know you’ve been thinking so generously for her. What about you, then? Do you have

confused and shocked. What did Jasper have to do with any of

was Eric on

acting so strangely?

waiting for a reaction from her. He let go all of a sudden, backing up as his gaze went back to cold and cutting again. As if everything just now had

“Nothing!”

relief. She was about to

grabbed by a scorching hand. “Eric… what’s the

you

want?”

me

“Huh?”

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