Shattered Vows: Call Me Auntie Now novel Chapter 283

Crashing into his solid chest, Quinn froze in shock.

She immediately shoved her hands against his chest, trying to push him away.

But fueled by the alcohol, his grip was ironclad. His arms wrapped around her waist like a vice, trapping her completely.

"Quinn... Quinn, I finally found you!"

Dante murmured heavily, burying his face in her hair, his voice thick with raw agony.

"I always thought Vivienne was the one who saved me!"

"Quinn, I had it all wrong from the very beginning. I've been such a bastard!"

For a second, her mind couldn't process what he was saying. Dante lowered his head and gently, almost fearfully, reached for her wrist.

When his eyes landed on the jagged, ugly scar hidden just beneath her watch, a ragged sob tore from his throat.

"Quinn, it must have hurt so much, didn't it?"

"Why were you so reckless? If that cut had been just a little deeper, you would've died!"

Meeting Dante's guilt-ridden, heartbroken gaze, the fog in her mind finally began to clear.

When the realization fully hit her, she was paralyzed with shock.

After she turned eighteen, Dante had suddenly grown close to Vivienne, simultaneously icing her out.

She had always assumed Dante was just like any other guy—tired of her and seduced by the fresh thrill Vivienne offered, which was why he had turned so cruel.

But it wasn't because he had fallen out of love with her.

It was because Vivienne had stolen her credit.

So, all this time, Dante believed Vivienne was the one who pulled him from the freezing depths of Silverpine Lake?!

Was his relentless devotion and protective care for Vivienne just a way to repay a fabricated debt?

He had no idea how much her heart bled every time she saw them together, every time he gave Vivienne the special treatment that used to be hers alone.

She would have preferred it if he had never been good to her at all. He had loved her for four years, only to violently rip all that warmth away. The whiplash had felt like having her bones shattered, a slow and agonizing execution.

All those years of silent suffering and unspeakable heartbreak crashed into her chest all at once.

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