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Chapter 108
Khloe felt a sudden warmth stir in her chest.
She’d invited Nick out on Valentine’s day – would he misunderstand?
The table she had booked was in the most luxurious private room on the top floor, three walls of floor-to-ceiling windows, offering an unobstructed view of the city’s dazzling nightscape.
As the night deepened, the atmosphere grew tranquil and serene.
Suddenly, her phone vibrated. It was Trey calling.
She instinctively tried to swipe it away, but in her haste, she accidentally answered.
“Khloe?” Trey’s voice came through immediately. Before she could hang up, it was too late.
He hadn’t expected to reach her, and there was a note of surprise in his tone. Apparently, Khloe’s anger had cooled somewhat.
“What do you want?” Khloe said coldly, irritation creeping into her voice.
“It’s Valentine’s day tonight. If you’re free, I’ve booked a restaurant… maybe we could—”
She didn’t let him finish. Instead, a thought crossed her mind, and a small, sardonic smile tugged at her lips.
“How’s Angela? She fainted yesterday-surely she needs company. On a special night like this, you’re not thinking of spending it with her?”.
Every word dripped with mockery, yet her voice was soft enough that Trey didn’t detect it.
“Khloe, you’re overthinking again,” he said gravely. “Why would I spend Valentine’s Day with Angela? She’s unwell, yes, but I have no obligation to be with her.”
No obligation?
Then what about the past two years of marriage, every Valentine’s day Khloe had returned home early, preparing everything perfectly, while he drifted in in the dead of night?
Once, Khloe even caught a whiff of unfamiliar perfume on him.
She had trusted him completely, accepted his explanation that it was a client, never doubted him, even feeling pity for him.
In six years together, she had done everything a devoted wife should.
She had given him her full trust, all her devotion, and the love she had to give. And he had destroyed it all with his own hands.
Khloe had grown up without much family affection and had no particularly close friends. She had never depended on anyone or relied on anyone’s love. She treasured her own feelings, cautious not to be hurt.
But with Trey, she had given everything-holding nothing back, leaving no space for herself.
Remembering all the lies that had wrapped around their past, she could no longer contain her anger. She hung up.
“Khloe?”
Trey stared at his phone, a shadow of loneliness crossing his face.
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Chapter 108
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Khloe was now fully immersed in work. For the past two years, he hadn’t done enough. She had wanted to celebrate Valentine’s day, but every year, he had spent it with Angela and Pete.
Trey sat alone in a high-end restaurant, half a bottle of red wine gone in a single stretch.
Thinking of Khloe, he should have been angry-but a hollow ache gnawed at him, as if a piece of him was missing.
Was it a feeling of losing control? Or… could he not be completely heartless toward Khloe?
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