No Sex for Six Years Because of Her? I'm Done novel Chapter 478

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Chapter 478 Happier Without You

His promise rang with conviction, an attempt to put Amelia at case.

Amelia listened quietly, her expression barely shifting.

“The estate–yes, I do plan to accept it.” She set down the plate, her tone carrying a quiet finality. “But I’m going to donate it in Fiona’s name to a charity. Maybe it can be turned into an orphanage or a shelter. A way to do some good in her memory.

“I believe if she’s watching over us, she’d be happy about that.”

Ethan looked as if he’d been struck by lightning, frozen in place, his face painted with pure disbelief.

“Donate … donate it?” He almost thought he’d misheard. “Grandma left it to you. Why would you give it away? That estate–even if you don’t want it, you could sell it. That’s a fortune. You…”

He couldn’t wrap his head around it.

It wasn’t a small amount. It was more wealth than most people could accumulate in a lifetime. How could she just give it away like it was nothing?

Amelia watched his stunned reaction and gently shook her head.

“Fiona didn’t leave me the estate just because she was fond of me.” Her voice softened, carrying a distant, reflective warmth. “More importantly, I think… she saw something of herself in me. Or maybe, something she wished she could have been.

“I did what she never had the courage to do when she was young. I chose to leave freely, instead of staying trapped in an unhappy marriage, shackled by the Rowe name for the rest of my

life.

“You must know that your grandparents‘ marriage … wasn’t a happy one.”

Ethan’s pupils contracted sharply.

He’d caught whispers about his grandparents‘ marriage as a child, but the adults had always treated it as something never to be spoken of.

All he knew was that his grandfather had been an impossibly stern and rigid man who wore the same stony expression with everyone–including his grandmother.

And his grandmother, though always poised and elegant in public, rarely ever truly smiled behind closed. doors, especially around his grandfather.

Their relationship, if you could call it that, was less of a marriage and more of a … decades–long exercise in polite coexistence.

In that moment, Ethan suddenly thought of himself and Amelia.

Hadn’t their marriage been just another version of the same story?

The only difference was that Amelia had been braver than his grandmother. She had chosen to walk away.

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Ethan’s throat went completely dry, as if something were lodged inside it. A thousand things he wanted to say, but in the end, all that came out was a single, hoarse, barely audible word.

I’m sorry.”

Those two words carried a depth of humility Ethan had never shown before, yet they didn’t create a single ripple in the still waters of Amelia’s heart.

She simply looked at him. Her eyes, once soft with love, were now as blank and untouchable as a stranger’s -his shattered reflection lost somewhere she couldn’t reach.

“What’s done is done. No amount of apologies can change that now.

“Ethan, I don’t care whether you’ve genuinely realized where you went wrong, or if it took Fiona’s will to shake something loose in you. She’s gone now, and the family business is on your shoulders.”

Her gaze was steady and serious. “I hope you’ll focus on what’s in front of you. Lead the Rowes well. And please, stop coming around to disrupt my life. I’m happy with the way things are now, and I don’t want anything to change.”

At that, a self–deprecating smile tugged at the corner of her lips. “This might sound harsh, but… the time since our divorce has been happier than all six years of our marriage combined.”

So those six years with him had been unbearable–miserable to even look back on.

A bitter, searing ache crashed over Ethan like a tidal wave, threatening to swallow him whole.

He wanted to push back, to insist that there had been good moments between them too. But as the words reached his lips, he found he couldn’t say a single one.

Because what Amelia said was the truth.

And now, as the newly appointed head of the Rowes, Fiona’s sudden passing had left behind more than just a massive inheritance. It came with crushing responsibility and a mountain of family affairs demanding his attention.

He truly did have far more pressing matters to deal with than matters of the heart.

“It’s late. I need to sleep.” Amelia issued her own eviction notice. “You should go. If anyone sees you here, it’ll only start more gossip.”

Ethan’s throat bobbed painfully. He looked at Amelia’s face, so resolute it left no room for argument, and though every fiber of his being wanted to stay, he knew that lingering would only push her further away.

“Goodnight.”

He turned, one heavy step at a time, and walked toward the door.

He pulled it open, and his silhouette in the hallway light carried a loneliness too raw for words.

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Chapter 478 Happier Without You

Amelia glanced at the untouched plate of lava cake sitting on the table.

She picked it up, carried it to the bathroom, and, without hesitation, scraped every last bit into the toilet and flushed it all away.

After a quick wash–up, Amelia lay in bed, but sleep refused to come.

Her mind kept drifting–one moment to Fiona’s kind, gentle face, the next to Grace and the others with their ruthless, overbearing demands, and finally settling on the lonely silhouette of Ethan’s back as he walked away.

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