Divorce and Freedom No More Homemaker for Him novel Chapter 385

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Kaleb was furious. He grabbed his coffee and took a hard gulp, his eyes still sharp and angry as he stared at Ayla. It was as if he wouldn’t feel at ease unless he forced her to break up.

Ayla lifted her coffee and took a sip. She stopped sitting so stiffly and leaned back against the couch, relaxed. “Breaking up isn’t happening.”

She hadn’t fully figured out how things would go with Draven next, but this was the only answer she could give Kaleb.

As expected, Kaleb refused to accept it. “So you really have to be in this relationship?”

Now that Ayla understood why he was acting this way, she knew how to calm him down. “This isn’t about whether I date Draven or not,” she said evenly. “Even if I don’t date him, what if I meet someone else in the future? Are you going to fight me like this every time? So let’s deal with the real problem first.”

She looked straight at him. “I promise you this. No matter who I’m with, I won’t let myself get hurt. I won’t let anyone take advantage of me. And I will never lose my mind again over love.”

Her words landed firmly. She spoke clearly, without hesitation, her eyes steady and serious.

For some reason, Kaleb was reminded of the mother he remembered—strict yet kind. Ayla’s words carried the same weight. They made people believe her.

Her clear and direct response pressed down most of the chaos in his chest.

She took his worries seriously. Even when he was emotional and unreasonable, she didn’t snap back or get angry. Instead, she tried to understand what he was afraid of and answered him carefully. She never brushed off his feelings

Kaleb could hear it. This wasn’t something she said just to shut him up. It was a real promise.

And because of that, he knew he shouldn’t argue anymore. He should accept her decision.

Still, he couldn’t let it go that easily. “I don’t believe it,” he said stubbornly. “It sounds easy to

but it’s totally different when you actually do it. Your brain is a liar. Most of the time it tricks you into feeling confident, even when you can’t really do it.”

say,

Ayla replied calmly, “Do you know why my grades were always better than yours growing up?”

Kaleb’s face darkened. “Why bring that up now?”

She smiled and said, “Because I’m good at spotting patterns. I review my mistakes and learn

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from them. If I get a question wrong, I take the time to understand it. The next time I see it. I won’t make the same mistake again. That’s how ve lived all these years. I got hurt with Troy, and because of that, I can promise I won’t get hurt again when it comes to love.”

“How can you be so sure?” Kaleb asked.

“I know you don’t believe me, and I get that,” Ayla said honestly. “Let’s say I really do get hurt with Draven. Even then, it would be a kind of hurt I never experienced with Troy. I won’t make the same mistake twice. If I face a new kind of trouble, I can’t promise how things will turn out. But one thing is certain.” She met his eyes. “The kind of blind, thoughtless love I gave before will never happen again.”

She paused, then asked softly, “Can you understand what I’m saying now?”

Kaleb wasn’t stupid. He understood what she meant, but he still wasn’t at ease. “Fine. As long as you’re not thinking blindly,” he said. “But you also said there will be new challenges ahead. If you don’t date, none of this trouble exists. Yet you insist on walking straight into it.”

Ayla tilted her head, genuinely curious. “Why do you automatically assume that if I’m with Draven, I’ll be the one at a disadvantage?”

Kaleb answered without hesitation. “First, our family doesn’t have wealth like his. Second, when you were his secretary, all I saw was you constantly accommodating him.”

Kaleb had always been stubborn by nature. He never tried to please anyone. Even with Juliet, if he didn’t like her, he simply ignored her. No one could control him that way. That was precisely why he couldn’t accept this.

His sister lowering herself to accommodate a man who wasn’t even related by blood.

Just thinking about it made his blood pressure rise.

Kaleb clenched his teeth and asked, “Why should you do that? Ayla, you don’t need to please everyone in this world. So why please him? Draven is just a man. There are plenty of men out there. None of them are worth putting on a pedestal. You could live freely and let others accommodate you instead.

“That’s why I think you’d lose out. Your backgrounds aren’t equal. Your relationship isn’t equal either. If you were standing on equal ground, fine-but you weren’t. Honestly, if you dared to point at Draven and scold him, I wouldn’t even be this worried.”

Ayla stayed calm and patient as she explained, “Draven ever used his family background to look down on me, I wouldn’t be with him. No matter how outstanding he is. If he doesn’t respect people, I don’t respect him.”

She continued, “Second, I wasn’t trying to please him. I was his secretary at the time. A secretary and a boss are naturally not equals-that’s just reality. What I showed him was

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respect, not blind obedience or flattery. I wasn’t humiliating myself to gain favor. And yes, before I resigned, our positions were unequal. I won’t deny that. At that time, I was indeed in the lower position.”

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