Divorce and Freedom No More Homemaker for Him novel Chapter 583

Chapter 583 Unreturned

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The more Skyla talked, the more worked up she became, and the more unwilling she felt to accept it. That feeling was not aimed only at Ayla, but also at herself. She had tried so hard and gotten nothing in return. There was no hope in sight. Even if Ayla had never existed, Skyla would still have felt the same resentment and frustration.

Ayla actually understood her quite well.

“I thought he’d always treated you well. Turns out it was like that for you too… But that really does sound like Troy. Hot and cold. Just when you think you’re a little closer to him, he turns around and hits you hard. Then he uses the cruelest attitude and the most cutting words to tell you that you’re nothing special,” Ayla said quietly.

Troy no longer stirred any emotion in Ayla. She was no longer avoiding his name and could talk about him calmly now.

Then she asked, “So what is it you want to tell me?”

Surely Skyla had not come just to vent at her.

Coming to see Ayla had been an impulsive decision. This was the only person she could talk to about this. Even if it meant embarrassing herself and slapping her own pride in the face, she could not stop herself from coming.

“I tried for so long, I was like some useless… friend. Maybe not even that. One moment he lifted me up, the next he froze me out like I didn’t exist. I never knew what he wanted. I wanted to try harder, but I didn’t even know how,” Skyla said, her voice tight.

She clenched her teeth and stared at Ayla. “Ayla, you were different. You went after him, and he married you. So I lost to you.”

Ayla had not expected Skyla to come digging up old wounds, opening herself up and talking her heart out just to feel better.

Skyla was giving her too much credit. Ayla had no idea what Skyla had been through, or how hard the blow had really been.

Maybe when Troy married Ayla, Skyla had been hit hard too. After some time, she might have seen hope again, only to end up disappointed all over. That was probably when she finally broke down and came to Ayla. Even though Ayla was not exactly a good person to confide in, and even though Skyla risked being mocked, she still came.

She must have been truly crushed.

Ayla was silent for two seconds, then said, “First, there was never a competition between you and me. Second, even if I did win, it wasn’t a happy win. I didn’t get any prize. If anything, it was worse than losing.”

What her former lover had given her was emotional neglect, the loss of a child, and endless entanglement after the divorce.

When Troy later said he loved her, Ayla felt nothing. She only found it ridiculous.

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Chapter 583 Unreturned

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Because words like “I love you” meant nothing. They sounded deep and sincere, but all she had ever endured was pain. Coming from Troy, those words felt especially hollow.

But since she had been the one who loved the wrong person, she had to swallow the consequences herself. Ayla had never complained to anyone.

Even if she did, all she would get was people telling her she had brought it on herself. Her friends would not actually say that, but Ayla had never wanted to keep chewing over her own heartbreak again and again.

She and Skyla were not friends, but Ayla was not about to kick someone while they were already exposing their wounds. So she told the truth about her own outcome, treating it as a kind of comfort.

Because with Troy’s personality, anyone who fell in love with him was doomed to get an unequal response and end up hurt.

At least Skyla had never truly entered a relationship with him. The damage she took was far less.

Ayla’s kindness was subtle. If you did not look closely, you would miss it.

Skyla did miss it. She clenched her fists. “Are you laughing at me? Laughing at how hard I worked for someone you were desperate to get rid of?”

Ayla frowned. “If that’s how you want to see it, there’s nothing I can do.”

“You…” Skyla’s eyes reddened with anger.

The woman she looked down on turned out to be better than her professionally, and Skyla had never once gained Troy’s affection. She had been heartbroken just because he had completely disappeared for a month or two.

Meanwhile, Ayla, who had suffered far more, remained composed. Troy no longer stirred her emotions, and that only made Skyla look more pathetic by comparison.

She could not compete in ability, and she could not untangle her feelings either.

Skyla felt like she had lost completely.

“Anything else you want to talk about?” Ayla asked.

Skyla had come to Ayla on impulse to vent. Saying it out loud did make her feel a little better, but the pain and resentment were still there. She asked, “Has Troy contacted you?”

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