Divorce and Freedom No More Homemaker for Him novel Chapter 697

Chapter 697 The Wrong Opponent

Max had been there for most of the important moments in Troy’s life. He also knew that neither L nor Troy was capable of making Ayla genuinely happy.

Staking his claim now, while the two brothers were at each other’s throats, would shut them both u anger would redirect toward him instead.

He wasn’t afraid of that. And with Ayla standing right there, neither of them would dare make thing for themselves.

Consider it doing her a small favor.

Troy took several seconds to process it. The whole thing felt absurd.

He and Draven had torn each other apart, and Ayla hadn’t cared. And right under his nose, she had r on to Max.

When the hell had Max started planning this?

Anger wasn’t quite the right word for what he felt. His first coherent thought was that he looked like a not because Draven had beaten him, but because reality had. Ayla had.

He had been fighting the wrong person the entire time.

Draven was the enemy he’d carried since childhood. But winning Ayla had nothing to do with Draven never had. The only person Troy should have been paying attention to was Ayla herself.

When Draven took the children, Troy had panicked and fixated on the confrontation, wanting to hand! quietly, retrieve them without Ayla ever finding out.

If Troy had thought clearly, the moment he confirmed it was Draven, he should have gone straight to A On this, they were on the same side. The children belonged to both of them.

Instead, his arrogance had led him straight to the worst possible choice. Again.

The gunshot wound was draining him. He didn’t have the energy to match the size of his rage, and that made everything worse. The fury was still there, vast and consuming. He wanted to put a knife in Max

Max had actually done this to him.

“Max” Troy’s voice came out low and deliberate, cach wont pulled up from somewhere deep. When did you send Ayla that video?

Max didn’t hesitate. The day she asked you for a divorce?

Troy felt the rage spike white hot Ayla had only made that decision because of the welcome dinner he’d thrown for Skyla. Her heart had broken that day, andt Max had been ready, waiting with the video, moving his pieces into place long before Troy had noticed.

“Max, what the hell is wrong with you?” Troy’s face twisted. “Why her Why couldn’t you want someone

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Chapter 697 The Wrong Opponent

Max looked at him steadily Tre if you had recognized cather than wh was men ly you had apologized when it manered and actually tied to change you weer te me with be des Not me, not Draven. You pushed her away yourself You do ghamene for tegning

Max understood that Ayla made her own choices. After everything she be diught, Dravers was by most measures a decent man, had managed to lose her tris commendy She wanging to easily for anyone after this.

Which meant that if time could have been turned back. if Troy had taken the divane coming perd seriously and made a genuine effort, things might have gone differenty. There might not have hear divorce at all.

But there were no second chances here.

Troy had spent his whole life expecting the world to arrange itself around him. That was what ang looked like from the inside. Unwilling to bend, certain of his own rightness, careless with people whe cared about him. Nobody with a clear head would choose to love a mume that Jazz

Troy had no real capacity for intimacy. Intimacy required mutual respect, recognitim, presence. He be none of those things.

“Troy, if it wasn’t me, it would have been someone else. There’s no reason to be this shocked Men’s was almost gentle. “You love Ayla, right? You want her to be happy. She’s happy with me. I can give her that.

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