The Wrong Woman

Chapter 13

Suzanne then pointed at the bookshelf in the room and said, “I’ve finished reading all the books on your shelf in the past few days.”

Nathan asked her again, “Are you not even going to consider it?”

Suzanne lowered her eyes. “No. I’ll leave tomorrow morning. I might never come back here again.”

Nathan didn’t bother trying to convince her anymore.

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He just walked past her and entered the room, slowly unbuttoning his shirt as he said, When we’re home, don’t bring up the divorce with Grandma. It’ll only aggravate her illness.”

Suzanne couldn’t help tightening her hold on the phone. She held it so tightly that she trembled.

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She simply couldn’t hold her emotions back and said, “I’m sorry, but I noticed a photo of a little girl in one of your books. There was something written on the back. It said, ‘My one true love, Sally Hoffis.“”

Nathan paused, his hands still in the midst of undoing his buttons. His entire body turned rigid as he froze in place.

eyes turned dark.

heart. She didn’t know how to describe it. Since there was nothing she could do about it, she

said calmly, “If I’m not mistaken, you’ve always wanted to marry

long time for Nathan to snap

“I liked her when I was young. But she left to study abroad when she was 14 years old, and we lost touch

more than a decade since I last saw her. She still feels like a stranger to me, even though she’s been back for a

bathroom and shut the door behind him while he

didn’t comfort Suzanne enough. She was

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the third wheel. After all, Nathan and Sally had known each other since they were kids, and

blue, Nathan would have married Sally by now. So what was the point of her struggling and trying to

face, making her

into the room and dimmed the lights. She wanted to go to bed before Nathan came out of the bathroom.

asleep after lying still for a while. But she couldn’t fall asleep that night, no matter how hard she tried. Maybe it was because

as she closed her eyes,

15 minutes later, she vaguely heard the sound of the bathroom door opening.

room was plunged

man she loved was lying just a few feet away from her, and yet

buzzed with a