Please Come Back, My Love novel Chapter 234

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Please Come Back, My Love

Chapter 234

Elena: POV

The Mercedes pulled away from Harrods, London streets blurring past in grey and gold. I sat rigid in the passenger seat, hands clenched, while Alexander drove with his usual careful precision.

In the back, Lila had stopped chattering about the “sad man with matching eyes, now focused on her stuffed rabbit.

The silence between Alexander and me felt suffocating,

“I’m sorry,” he said finally, his voice low enough that Lila wouldn’t hear over her quiet hutaming. “I should have told you everything from the beginning.

I didn’t look at him, keeping my gaze fixed on the passing storefronts. “Then tell me now.”

His hands tightened on the steering wheel, knuckles going white. “Julian Sterling was your husband. You were married for three years

The words landed like stones in still water, sending ripples through my carefully constructed sense of self.

“Was,” I repeated, latching onto the past tense like a lifeline. “You said was.”

“You’re divorced.” Alexander’s jaw clenched. “You filed the papers yourself four years ago, Elena. You wanted out.”

Something cold slithered through my chest. “Why?”

He was quiet for a long moment, navigating a turn with exaggerated care. When he finally spoke, his voice carried a weight I’d never heard before. ‘Because he wasn’t good to you. In those three years, he… he didn’t treat you the way a husband should treat his wife.”

“What does that mean?” I pressed, turning to face him now. “What did he do?”

“Does it matter?” The sharpness in his tone made me flinch. He seemed to catch himself, softening his voice. ‘I’m sorry. I just-I don’t want to put those images in your head. You’ve been free of them for four years. Why drag you back into that darkness?”

But I needed to know. Needed to understand why my body had recoiled from Julian’s touch even as something deeper-something I couldn’t name had stirred at his kiss. “Tell me.”

Alexander exhaled slowly. “He kept you hidden. Like you were something to be ashamed of. You were his wife in name, but to the world, you didn’t exist. And there was another woman-Victoria. She was always there, always between you. He never chose you, Elena. Not once in three years. Most of all, he caused you to lose your first child.”

The words painted a picture of humiliation, of being second-best, of loving someone who couldn’t love you back. I tried to reconcile that image with the devastation I’d seen in Julian’s eyes, the way he’d looked at me like I was his entire world.

‘But you said we’re divorced,” I said carefully. “So I left him.”

“You did.” Pride crept into Alexander’s voice. “Finally found the strength to walk away. Filed the papers, didn’t ask for anything, just wanted to be free of him.”

I absorbed this, turning it over in my mind. A marriage that had ended before I lost my memory. A husband who’d treated me poorly en ugh that I’d chosen to leave. It should have made sense. Should have explained the instinctive fear I’d felt when Julian grabbed me.

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Chapter 234

So why did something about the story feet incomplete?

“And us?” I asked quietly. You said we weren’t engaged That you lied about that too.”

His throat worked as he swallowed. did. The truth is… I’ve cared about you for a long time, Elena. Longer than I should have. But you were married, and I

“He broke off, shaking his head. “I kept my distance. Tried to be just his uncle. But after fine divorce, after you were finally free, we…

He trailed off, and I filled in the blanks myself. “We got together.”

‘One night. The confession came out rough. It was just supposed to be one night. You were hurting, trying to forget him, and I’d wanted you for so long. And then you found out you were pregnant, and everything changed.”

My hand moved instinctively to my stomach, though it had been flat for four years. Lila. My beautiful, impossible daughter, ben from a single night of

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