I Chose Me Over My Marriage novel Chapter 89

"A demand? After everything you've done, you actually have the nerve to make demands? Maxwell, let me remind you of reality. I never did any of the things you're accusing me of. The entire narrative of me faking a pregnancy to force a marriage is a complete lie. You were the one who asked to marry me. You proposed to me in public! And now, just to cover up your disgusting affair with Aria, you're trying to pin these fabricated crimes on me."

Lyra took a deep, shaky breath, but the sheer emotional exhaustion finally cracked her composure. Her eyes burned with frustrated tears.

"Maxwell, I was by your side for years. Not only did I never do a single thing to betray you, I poured my blood, sweat, and tears into building your empire. Do you have any idea how much leverage and wealth you extracted from the Lennox family? Now that we're divorced, that endless supply of power has dried up. You feel suffocated. You feel the loss. But did you ever stop to think about how I survived years of a completely one-sided, emotionally dead marriage?!"

The panic Maxwell had been suppressing finally broke through to the surface.

"Why are you crying? I..."

For the first time, he felt completely helpless.

In all their years of marriage, he had never felt this kind of panic toward Lyra.

He couldn't even put a name to the suffocating emotion crushing his chest.

An overwhelming wave of heartbreak and reluctance threatened to swallow him whole, leaving him entirely disoriented.

Without thinking, he grabbed a tissue and practically shoved it into her hands.

"Stop crying. The rumors online—I'll release a statement right now. No one will believe them. Everything I did... I just did it because I refuse to divorce you."

Hearing him finally admit the truth behind his madness, Lyra's tears stopped instantly.

She stared at Maxwell in total disbelief, feeling as though the man sitting across from her was a complete stranger.

"Maxwell, don't tell me you actually fell in love with me?"

She had spent years desperately trying to thaw his frozen heart, and she had failed completely.

It was only when she handed him divorce papers that he finally realized he cared?

It was the most pathetic, laughable joke she had ever heard.

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