A Marriage Without Touch, A Goodbye Without Tears (Amelia and Ethan) novel Chapter 394

Chapter 394 The Final Line

“Take Isla and move out.”

Ethan paused, then decisively shattered the last illusion Hannah still clung to.

“We can never be together. And it has nothing to do with Amelia.

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“You married Jack long before I ever married Amelia. Don’t come back now and question your own choice.”

Hannah felt as if she had plunged into icy water.

Ethan was throwing her out?

Her mind buzzed, blank and stunned.

“No… no!”

It took a long moment for her to recover from the shock. “Ethan, you can’t do this to me! I’m begging you, was wrong, truly wrong!”

Ignoring the pain in her body, she scrambled forward on her hands and knees until she reached Ethan’s feet.

“If you drive me and Isla out, you’re cutting off our only way to live!”

Just then, a door to one of the rooms nearby was pushed open a crack.

Awakened by the fierce argument in the living room, Isla stood there groggily, rubbing her sleepy eyes, confusion written all over her face.

Her small, fragile figure hovered in the doorway, helpless and unsure.

Hannah saw her.

A ruthless glint flashed through her eyes. She lunged forward, yanked Isla to her side, clamped both hands on the child’s thin shoulders, and forced her to kneel.

“Isla! Hurry and beg Ethan! Beg him not to make us leave!”

Isla was startled by her mother’s sudden movement. Her body trembled violently.

She looked at Ethan’s cold, rigid face, then at her mother, who was nearly hysterical with tears.

Urged on by Hannah, she spoke through sobs.

“Ethan, please don’t make me and Mommy leave…

“We don’t have anywhere to go…”

Isla’s crying echoed through the deathly silent room.

Her tear–streaked face would have softened even the hardest heart.

But Ethan watched quietly, his eyes no longer capable of sympathy.

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Chapter 394 The Final Line

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If moments ago his feelings toward Hannah had been ager and disgust, then now, seeing her use her own child as a tool to beg for mercy, he was completely awake

A child was innocent. A mother who exploited her child was unforgivable.

His thoughts drifted back to the period shortly after Arelia divorced him.

Even then, he had already considered asking Hannah an Isla to leave.

His marriage to Amelia had ended partly because of his own faults, but Hannah’s presence had undeniably accelerated the collapse.

If he wanted to win Amelia back, Hannah’s departure had been the first step.

He had almost spoken up, but then something unexpected happened.

By sheer coincidence, Isla had fallen and injured her head. It wasn’t life–threatening, but serious enough to keep her hospitalized for nearly half a month.

Faced with a child who had just lost her father and then suffered an injury, he simply couldn’t bring himself to say something as cold as please move out.

And so, the matter had been dropped.

Afterward, Ethan had even questioned how a five- or six–year–old child could fall in such a precise, severe

way.

He had people investigate, but nothing came up..

In the end, it was written off as an unfortunate accident

But now, watching Hannah instinctively shove her daughter forward as a shield, Ethan suddenly understood.

It had never been an accident.

He was almost certain Hannah had orchestrated it, deliberately manipulating Isla into hurting herself, all to create a reason that couldn’t be refused, a way to keep staying in this house.

A woman who could do such a thing to her child. What kind of heart did she have?

Any remaining guilt or sense of responsibility Ethan felt toward Hannah because of Jack vanished completely in that moment.

He stopped looking at the crying mother and daughter on the floor, turned away, picked up the intercom phone, and called security.

“Send two bodyguards to the second floor.”

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