Divorce me I'm done serving you (Ayla) novel Chapter 825

For example, right now, Kaleb felt a quiet kind of happiness. He didn't need to do anything. Just looking at Bria was enough to make him feel at ease.

"Think further back. At that time, you didn't even want to see me. You wanted me to disappear from your life. You even said you never wanted to have any contact with me again. There's no way you would've bought a ring then.”

Bria felt like her analysis made perfect sense. Back then, they'd just fallen out. She hadn't given up yet, and Kaleb hadn't processed his emotions. He'd been at the point where he hated her the most, while she kept pushing herself into his space. It would've been a miracle if he didn't resent her. There was no way he'd buy her a ring.

Going further back would mean all that careless trash talk with her friends that led to everything spiraling out of control.

Bria deliberately avoided that time and asked again, "It couldn't be when we went to see that movie, right? I was about to confess to you then, but you said you had work to finish. And then you secretly went and bought a ring behind my back?”

She nodded to herself, convinced. "It has to be around that time. I can't think of anything earlier.”

Then she urged him, "Come on, just tell me already!”

Kaleb let out a sigh. "None of those.”

"No way...”

"It was that day.”

Kaleb didn't spell it out, but they both knew exactly what "that day” meant. The moment Bria realized it, something twisted uncomfortably in her chest. She looked at him and finally asked the question that had been bothering her. "Then why did you show up unannounced that day?”

If she'd known he was coming, she wouldn't have been so careless with her words around her friends. She would've kept up the act.

What happened after that had spiraled completely out of control.

Kaleb said, "Because I was planning to confess to you that day. I wanted to be the one to say it first.”

Bria's eyes widened. The realization hit her a second later, and then the pain came rushing in, sharp and relentless.

What have I done? He came to me, full of hope, planning to surprise me. He was probably at his happiest, and instead, he heard me treating him like a joke, mocking him in front of my friends... Bria couldn't even bear to imagine how that must've felt for him.

If anyone had done that to her, she would've torn them apart without hesitation. She would never have let it go.

And what had Kaleb done? All he'd done was tell her not to come find him again. But she'd kept pushing him, again and again, deliberately making things harder for him, making him hurt.

Even though she hadn't seen any signs from him during those two months, this was just how Kaleb was.

He cared about her far more than she'd ever realized.

At this moment, all Bria felt was moved. She understood clearly what she'd done wrong. She really had been terrible. And in the end, it was his sincerity that broke through to her.

For the first time, Bria truly knew she was wrong. She apologized from the bottom of her heart. "I'm sorry, Kaleb. I should've said this a long time ago.”

Kaleb had been hurt. He didn't brush it off or say it didn't matter. He accepted her apology, and once he did, it meant he was willing to let it go.

Seeing that he truly accepted it and wasn't going to hold it against her, Bria felt like Kaleb was really good. How could he be this gentle, this kind?

"So what now?” Bria liked someone truly good, and that person liked her back. Right now, she wanted nothing more than to hold onto him and never let anyone else get close.

Kaleb glanced at the injury on her wrist, still unsettled. "Focus on healing first.”