The Captain I Married by Chance novel Chapter 266

"Was it fun playing me?"

Nora's voice cracked. "Did you enjoy watching me reject you over and over again because of this damn engagement?"

"Were you secretly gloating, thinking I was keeping myself pure just for you?"

"No!"

Nathan stepped forward, desperately reaching out to hold her.

"Don't touch me!"

She snapped, shrinking back against the headboard. "Nathan Peyton. Harold Peyton. I should have realized it sooner. You transferred to Luminport City just for this wedding, didn't you?"

"It's not like that..." he denied again.

Nora gave him a look of absolute disappointment. "Are you still trying to lie to me?"

Seeing her rimmed red eyes brimming with tears, his heart ached, and his voice softened to a whisper.

"Nora, please, just let me explain."

Nora frowned. She didn't want to hear it, but seeing a usually unshakable, composed man look so utterly panicked, her resolve crumbled.

"Talk."

She decided to give him a chance.

If his excuse wasn't good enough, she would rain hell on him later.

"I applied for a transfer to Luminport City a long time ago."

He pulled out his phone and opened a chat log with his superiors in the Arvendale Region.

The truth was, he had requested a transfer the previous year.

But then a massive serial murder case hit Arvendale. The killer was brutal, slaughtering eight people in three months. As a key investigator for the Arvendale Regional Police Force, he couldn't exactly walk away.

It had taken over four months to track down and apprehend the suspect.

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