Mr. Fake-Mute's Love Game Ended When I Stopped Playing the Fool novel Chapter 115

Chapter 9

Sloane, I’ll be back.”

Harry left after throwing out that threat.

grabbed Jules and started cleaning the cut on his face.

You didn’t have to say that stuff, you know.”

It wasn’t a joke. I really do like you, Sloane.”

lis confession came out of nowhere and I froze.

ty mind went blank. I finished bandaging him up in a rush and practically ran away.

wasn’t ready for any of that. Not now. Maybe not ever.

or the next few days, I kept looking over my shoulder, expecting Harry to show up again.

le never did.

Maybe the warning actually worked.

urns out, Harry got called back to New York for an emergency.

horne Pharmaceuticals was in trouble.

ianca had decided to throw her weight around and “help“-which only made everything worse.

y the time Harry got back, she threw herself into his arms, crying.

Harry, I didn’t mean to! I was just trying to help!”

larry looked at the financial report showing a hundred million dollar loss and snapped.

le slapped her across the face, called an emergency board meeting, and stripped the Valois family of every share they had

ianca sobbed and begged for forgiveness, but Harry was done. He had security throw her and all her belongings out of the building

fter cleaning up the mess in New York, Harry came back to find me.

le got down on his knees in front of me.

legged me to save the company.

It’s our life’s work, Sloane. You can’t just let it fall apart.”

I walked away from it. It’s not mine anymore.”

We’re still married!”

‘Not for long. The court summons will be here in two days. And when it does, you’ll have nothing.

Harry’s eyes turned red. His voice cracked.

‘You really want to destroy me?”

I didn’t flinch.

hapter 9

You did this to yourself.”

he day before the court summons arrived. Harry signed the divorce papers.

e couldn’t bring himself to walk away with nothing, so he took what he could

he day after I got the divorce certificate, Project 707 officially launched.

ve years went by in the blink of an eye.

hanks to the hard work of every researcher on the team, we successfully developed the new drug

ews from the outside world trickled in now and then.

arry tried to find me a few more times.

it since I was working on a classified national project, no one would tell him where I was.

e worst time, he got detained for two weeks.

fter that, he never came back.

ithout me, Thorne Pharmaceuticals collapsed within a few years.

arry

ended up

buried in debt.

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