Billionaire, Let's Divorce (Mark and Sydney) novel Chapter 84

Chapter 0084

“She once had a child?” I thought to myself and my body stiffened a bit. Surely never expected that update.

When could this have happened? Was it during those three interminable years when she had vanished without a trace? But despite the amount of questions I had, I still tried to act composed and I schooled my expression into one of indifference.

I focused on the almost invisible ripples forming on the surface of my coffee. as I slowly stirred the steaming liquid.

“I don’t want to hear it,” I said flatly with nonchalance.

To be honest, I was mostly not interested in hearing any stories about her murky past even though at some point before, I used to be interested in it. What purpose would it serve to dredge up all of those stories anyway?

In the background of where we both sat I could hear voices and clinks of cutlery, but it all faded like far away murmurs as Bella’s eyes drove like nails. into me. Her fingers curled around her own cup and she slowly took a sip before rolling her eyes.

“I’m going to tell you anyway,” she shrugged.

I also shrugged as I sipped my own coffee, turning my attention to the view outside the café window, I tried to lose myself in the bustling cityscape, hoping Bella would take the hint and spare me the sordid details of her tale.

“Isaac deceived me into eloping abroad with him and shortly after that I found out pregnant.”

Though outwardly impassive, I was suddenly hanging on her every word with morbid curiosity.

“We both stayed in a shabby rental we had called home. I even had to survive on terrible… terrible food I tell you. But in spite of the hardships, I still felt happy and proud,” she was now looking somewhere far away behind. me, “Knowing I had bravely escaped the shackles of our family’s

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“The good times didn’t last however,” Bella continued; her voice was growing somber.