Let’s Divorce Mrs. Wright Is Done Playing Nice novel Chapter 1156

“Who decided that? You? Then you can marry her yourselves.”

Leon’s voice dripped with mockery.

They could say the marriage was “decided” all they wanted, but none of it had anything to do with him.

What a joke.

All these years, Leon had never once imagined himself as someone others could simply control.

And now his own mother was telling him everything had already been arranged when he, the actual groom, hadn’t even known about it.

Vivian’s face tightened.

“You…”

“Give it up. I’m not marrying Monique.”

Leon had never sounded more certain.

Maybe part of that certainty came from regret.

Back when things had first gone wrong between Jennifer and Monique, if he had sided with Jennifer just a little more, if he had been even slightly firmer, things between them might never have reached this point.

That phone call with Evan had been a wake-up call too.

Evan had wavered between Stella and Summer again and again until everything became impossible to undo.

Leon had at least come to his senses sooner.

Sooner than Evan had.

He could only hope it wasn’t too late.

No matter what Vivian said, Leon refused to budge.

In the end, she stormed out in fury.

Before leaving, however, she threw one last warning over her shoulder.

“You’d better not fight the marriage to Monique.”

If he simply let things proceed, it would be better for everyone.

Otherwise...

Vivian didn’t finish the threat.

She didn’t need to.

The hardness in her tone made it obvious that if Leon resisted, things were going to get ugly.

Once she was gone, Leon remained on the couch.

He lit a cigarette and took several hard drags.

He had never been much of a smoker before.

Now he smoked constantly.

Maybe that was what happened as a man got older.

Sometimes the pressure from your own family alone was enough to suffocate you.

Leon finished three cigarettes before finally getting up and heading upstairs.

At the turn of the staircase, he stopped.

Jennifer was leaning against the wall.

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