Divorce and Freedom No More Homemaker for Him novel Chapter 694

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Chapter 694 Everything They Didn’t Want Her to See

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Max closed his hand around hers, his voice dropping. “The most important thing is that I think you need someone right now. I’m not leaving you. Not for anything.”

The last few words caught her off guard. Her jaw tightened.

She thought about Draven. She had told herself, in the beginning, that the breakup had simply hurt him too much to face her, that he’d chosen to move forward alone, quietly, without making it complicated. That he’d respected her enough to let go.

She had understood that version of him. She could have made peace with it.

But that wasn’t what he’d done. He’d been watching her in secret for months, and she still didn’t know why. Was it control? Was it that he couldn’t bring himself to walk away?

If he still cared, why hadn’t he come to her? Why hadn’t he said something the way Max had, plainly and without making her guess? Instead he’d taken her children and backed her into a

corner.

There were better ways. There were so many better ways.

She was tired. She didn’t want to untangle what Draven was thinking, and she didn’t want to figure out Troy either. She just wanted her children back. The two of them could matter later, or not at all.

Max didn’t ask anything of her. He followed her lead and didn’t push, and that was exactly what she needed right now. Simple. No weight attached to it.

She was about to face Draven head–on and demand her children back. Having someone beside her wouldn’t hurt.

“Okay,” she said.

She left the city limits, and where the roads opened up without cameras or speed restrictions, she drove the way she actually drove.

Max grabbed the handle and held on. Then he noticed that her hands were completely steady. Her breathing hadn’t changed. She was moving at a speed that should have felt reckless and she looked entirely at ease.

He realized, somewhat belatedly, that he might be sitting next to one of the best drivers he’d

ever seen.

He couldn’t look away from her. The woman he loved was absolutely radiant.

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And the way she operated. She had tracked Draven down, boarded a night flight, and broken through James’s entire security system before dawn. Max could have sent his best people and none of them would have moved half as fast. Ayla was extraordinary.

He used to think it was the particular light in her eyes when she looked at Troy that had drawn him in. He’d had it backwards. That light was just Ayla, always there, always hers. He didn’t love a moment or an expression. He loved her.

But none of that was worth saying out loud right now. Being there was enough.

The speed brought them to the foothills fast. Halfway up the mountain road, the headlights caught two figures, and Ayla brought the car to a stop.

Draven was holding a gun. Troy’s leg was bleeding badly from a gunshot wound. Troy was holding a knife. Draven’s leg had a deep stab wound in almost the exact same place.

Max had run out of things to say. He just worried about her. But she was calmer than he’d expected.

She pushed the door open, got out without saying anything, and stood there looking at both of them.

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Draven and Troy both froze. Neither of them had considered she might appear. And worse than the surprise was the reality of what she was seeing–the blood, the weapons, the ugliness of it.

Their fights had always been kept out of her sight. Twice before she’d come close, and both times they’d managed to handle things away from her. But not this time.

This was the worst it had ever been between them, the deepest the hatred had ever run, and she had seen all of it. Both of them wondered if they had frightened her.

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