Divorced CEO's Forgotten Wife Strikes Back (Riley and Bryce) novel Chapter 218

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After Lara and Shawn walked out of the little motel that day, his expression was so cold you’d think she owed him money.

Seriously? Shouldn’t he be thanking her for setting boundaries like a responsible ex?

What did he want–some teary confession that she still had feelings for him? That she was dying to crawl back into his

arms?

She still remembered overhearing his friends once:

“Shawn, why are you dating someone like Lara? She’s so plain. Don’t tell me you just got bored of high–end girls and wanted some basic for a change.”

“Exactly. There’s nothing special about her. Just an average face. You’ve got girls lining up for you.”

“Come on, Shawn, don’t tell us you’re actually serious about

her.”

At the time, she had been standing just outside the door, silently praying he’d speak up. That he’d say yes, he was serious —even if she wasn’t anything special. That he liked her for her.

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But all she heard him say was. “It’s just something to pass the

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time.”

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In that moment, it felt like someone had shoved her into an

ice–cold freezer.

What she thought was a once–in–a–lifetime romance? To him, it had meant nothing. It was just a way to kill time.

She used to think she was lucky. Now she realized how foolish she’d been.

She didn’t even remember how she ran away from that room. She hadn’t even had the courage to open the door and confront him.

Later, she ended things with a single phone call.

When she told him she wanted to break up, all he said was, “You won’t regret this?”

“No,” she replied. “I won’t.” And back then, she meant every

word.

And just like that, they broke up.

After that, for years, they had no contact—no messages and no run–ins. Just like he said back then–she was nothing more

than a way to kill time. Without her, he’d simply find someone 276

else to fill the void.

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What Lara hadn’t expected was to run into Shawn again, not once but twice, and in the most awkward of circumstances,

When she left that seedy little motel, she didn’t even bother saying goodbye. She crossed the street, got into her car, and drove off without looking back,

Because honestly, she and Shawn were better off never seeing cach other again.

“You okay? You’ve been spacing out a lot the past couple of days,” Riley asked gently, snapping Lara out of her thoughts.

“Huh?” Lara blinked and jolted back to the present.

No matter how hard she tried not to think about Shawn, her mind kept drifting back to him.

Apparently, first loves really were hard to forget. But no matter how hard it was, she would.

“It’s nothing,” Lara said quickly. “I was just wondering when Vince will find out who that man was–the one who went to the

motel with Bella.”

It had been weighing on her mind for days.

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told her–something shady was definitely going on between Bella and that man.

“Whatever it is, it can’t be anything good,” Riley said.

She couldn’t shake the feeling that Bella was hiding something. Pretending to be Bryce’s savior was one thing, but Riley

suspected there were deeper secrets buried in that fire from

years ago.

After all, Bella was the last known person to speak to Jaxon- the Cloud Airlines co–pilot who died in the fire.

He was the first to die, with the official cause listed as an unextinguished cigarette.

Riley had looked into the location: remote, isolated, the kind of place few people passed through.

If Bella had stood there and watched Jaxon burn, then odds were, she also saw who tossed that cigarette into the dry grass.

But if that was true, why didn’t she say something?

Even when everyone assumed Jaxon accidentally started the fire himself, Bella claimed she saw him smoking–essentially blaming the entire tragedy on him.

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Any normal person who witnessed something like that-

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shred of guilt.

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Was Bella trying to protect the real culprit? Or maybe she was the one who smoked that cigarette?

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