Ex Wife's Collapse After Divorce novel Chapter 108

Chapter 108

“Oh, you know.” She gave a tired exhale. “Not well. Not really.”

“It is what it is,” she said. “Reginald and I haven’t seen eye to eye in a long time. Marriage, family… I wasn’t particularly happy to begin with.” She paused. “Damian’s arrival made everything worse.”

She trailed off, then shook her head.

“I’ve always felt something was wrong with that man. The way he appeared out of nowhere, the way he attached/ himself to Vivian, the way he wormed his way into the family. It’s not normal. He wants something.”

“I’ve tried to warn Vivian.” Eleanor’s voice tightened. “Over and over. But she won’t listen. She thinks I’m jealous, or paranoid, or trying to control her. She’s pulled away from me completely.”

Ethan’s jaw clenched.

“And Reginald?” he asked.

Eleanor laughed a short, bitter sound. “Reginald used to agree with me. He didn’t trust Damian either, not at first.”

Her fingers tightened around the glass. “Then Damian’s uncle-Vincent Hale-invested a hundred million into Lockwood Industries. After that, Reginald stopped questioning anything.”

She looked down at her hands.

“Now I’m alone in that house. My own daughter won’t speak to me. My husband sides with a man he barely knows. I feel like a stranger in my own home.”

The apartment went quiet.

Ethan watched Eleanor’s face-the exhaustion in the lines around her eyes, the resignation pulling at her mouth. This was a woman who’d spent years being kind in a family that rewarded cruelty.

And she was right. About all of it.

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