Please Come Back, My Love novel Chapter 164

Chapter 164

I stepped forward. Get out of my wa

“Julian Elena started.

“You don’t get to keep her from me. My eyes locked on Ethan “You don’t get to stand there and play hero when you’ve been sniffing around my wife since

“Ex-wife, Elena spat. ‘We’re divorced, Julian. You signed the papers. You wanted this.”

The word divorced hit harder than it should have. I’d signed those papers in a haze of grief and self-loathing, thinking I was setting her free. Thinking she’d

be better off without me.

I’d been wrong.

I ignored her. Ignored all of them. I moved past Josephine, past Ethan’s outstretched arm, until Elena was backed against the RV’s metal siding.

Her eyes went wide. Panicked.

“Is it true?” My voice came out raw. Broken. “What your mother said. Are you really with him?”

“That’s” Her breath hitched. “That’s none of your business.”

“Answer me.”

“Why?” She tried to duck under my arm. I caged her in, palms flat against the RV on either side of her head. “Why does it matter, Julian? You didn’t want

1. You made that abundantly clear.”

“I don’t believe you moved on this fast. My face was inches from hers now. I could smell her-vanilla and something sharper. Fear. “I don’t believe you

stopped loving me.”

Her jaw trembled. “You don’t know what I feel.”

“Then tell me. I leaned closer, drinking in every detail I’d been starved of for thirty-two days. The faint freckles across her nose. The way her pulse hammered in her throat. “Say you don’t love me. Say you don’t think about me every goddamn night. Say you don’t still wear—”

My eyes dropped to her collarbone. To the faint outline of a chain under her shirt.

Something small and delicate. My heart hammered against my ribs.

Please. Please let it be-

‘Admit it. My voice cracked. ‘Admit you still care about me. Say you still love me.”

‘Julian, stop-

I kissed her

Crushed my mouth to hers before she could finish the sentence. Before she could lie to my face again. She made a sound-shock or protest, I couldnt tell

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Chapter 164

Vista care: My hand shid into her hair, angling her head back, and i kissed her like I could erase the past thirty-two days. Like I could rewrite every funked up thing 4d said and done.

For one perfect second, she kissed me back.

Then she seemed to come to her senses, her hand cracking across my face with a vicious slap. “What makes you think I could ever love you again? I hate you -God, I hate you so much. Did you forget how our baby died?”

My hand shot out, fingers closing around the chain at her throat. yanked it free from her sweater, desperate to see-

A small pendant fell into my palm. Silver. Engraved.

A.M.H.

Not our wedding ring. Not anything that connected her to me.

Someone else’s initials.

The disappointment crashed through me like a physical blow, followed immediately by something darker. Something that made my vision tunnel.

“Whose are these?” My voice came out deadly quiet. “Whose fucking initials are on your neck, Elena?”

She tried to snatch the pendant back. I held it higher, out of reach.

“Give it back-”

“Whose?” I was losing it. Completely fucking losing it. “You’re wearing another man’s initials? Already?”

“It’s not-it’s complicated—”

“Complicated?” I laughed, but there was no humor in it. Pure madness. “You divorce me, run off with your professor, and now you’re wearing some other

bastard’s name around your throat?”

“Julian, please-

Is it his?” I jerked my head toward Ethan. “Are those his initials?”

“No-

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