Five Years of Marriage to Mr. Bradford (by Koi Fish) novel Chapter 378

Chapter 378

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Chapter 378

“Yeah. What are you even depressed about? Just get the divorce done. You and Cathy can finally be together,” Aiden echoed. “Don’t tell me you never thought about marrying her. We’re all men here; we understand each other. If your old feelings for her ever died, I’d let you kick my head around like a ball.”

“That’s my biggest mistake,” Vance admitted. “I’ve been thinking about this seriously these past few days. Isabelle wasn’t wrong when she called me out. I never planned to divorce Rebecca, but it’s also true I let that old spark with Cathy come back to life.”

He lowered his head and pinched the bridge of his nose. “I kept telling myself I could control it. Even if I had feelings for Cathy, I could keep them in check. I would never betray my marriage. I swore I would never become the kind of cheating scumbag my father was. I’d stick with whoever I was married to for life. I believed that as long as I didn’t cheat physically, it didn’t count as betraying Rebecca.”

His voice grew quieter until it turned into a bitter laugh.

“You did keep that promise,” Lucas said. “You didn’t…”

Even though Isabelle claimed emotional cheating counted as cheating, in Lucas’s view, if Vance had held the physical line, there might still have been a chance to salvage things.

Vance sighed with regret, and Lucas was stunned. “You didn’t actually… When did that happen? Damn, it’s over! You can’t save this anymore.”

“Yeah. It’s over, and I can’t even try to win her back. She thinks I’m dirty,” Vance muttered, his eyes getting glazed. “So, I suddenly don’t know why I should keep working so hard. I’ve already proved I don’t need my father, and my other goal-carrying a lifetime of responsibility for Rebecca-has been lifted. She doesn’t need me anymore. So, why should I keep pushing?”

“Wait a second,” Lucas interrupted. “Aren’t you working hard for…”

He started scrolling through his phone. “Let me check… Hey, why did you delete that post? The one you put up on your socials.”

“What post? I don’t make a habit of posting on social media.”

“You did post! Let me find it. Izzy captured it in a screenshot and sent it to me, calling you a scumbag. Let me check the chat history. You said something about your lifelong effort being to give Cathy a clear blue sky or whatever.”

Aiden snatched his phone. “What’s there to look for? Vance says he didn’t post anything. You must be remembering wrong. He never posts on socials.” (1)

“Yeah, the only thing I ever posted was wishing Rebecca a happy birthday last month,” Vance confirmed.

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