My Husband's Affair My Anniversary Gift (Lily and David) novel Chapter 234

Lily went blank. She tried to push him away, but she didn’t have the strength. She had a little alcohol in her system too. Not enough to lose herself, but enough to make her guard slip when old memories rushed in. His touch. His warmth. His kiss. Her fingers slowly moved up and locked around David’s neck. She kissed him back without thinking.

David froze.

He pulled away at once. Lily blinked, confused, meeting his eyes. In the past he never cared about her feelings. And after she asked for a divorce and left him, he had forced her a few times.

She got pregnant because of that. And now he was stepping back? He was scared. He was scared that if he touched her the wrong way again, she would run even farther from him.

David looked away. His emotions were a mess. Pain. Fear. Everything hit him at once. Then tears slipped down his cheeks before he even noticed. The moment he felt the wetness, he raised his hand quickly to wipe them.

“David… are you…” Lily pulled him closer and froze when she saw his face. “You’re crying?”

Her voice came out shocked, more like she was asking herself than him. David Hardison? Crying? In front of her?

Suddenly Lily remembered that night seven years ago. He was on the edge of crying then too, when she asked him to leave her just for one night. That scared face haunted her for years. She never forgave him for what he did to her, but he was still the man she had loved all her life.

“Lily…” His voice broke. He couldn’t hold anything back anymore. He had kept everything inside for seven years, and now it burst.

“I’m sorry.” His knees suddenly gave out. He fell in front of her.

Lily gasped. “What are you doing?”

He took her hands tight and looked up at her with wet eyes.

“I know I was an idiot. I should’ve realized everything earlier. I’m sorry, Lily. I took you for granted. I thought no matter how much I hurt you, you’d stay. After you left I understood what you mean to me… and how much damage I caused. Please come back. I promise I won’t hurt you again. I’ll do anything. Just don’t leave me again.”

Lily stared at the man kneeling on the floor. For a moment she couldn’t even process it. David Hardison, the cold, ruthless man the world feared, was kneeling and begging her.

Was this real? Or was this some cruel joke?

She had worked beside him as his secretary for nine years. She had slept in his bed for five years as his wife. But never once did she imagine he would kneel for her.

Now looking at him like this, something inside her snapped. The anger she buried deep for so long finally rose.

She pulled her hands away and walked to the bed. She sat on the edge, watching him. A part of her felt satisfaction seeing him helpless like this, begging for something he once threw away.

“Just because you said sorry,” Lily said slowly, “you think everything is fixed?” Her voice shook even though she tried to hold it steady.

“Do you even remember how much humiliation I went through because of you and Marina? Do you know what it feels like to see your husband with another woman? That pain. That shame. And every night in the same bed, you held me but whispered her name.”

Lily’s eyes reddened. The memories were sharp, like it all happened yesterday.

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