The CEO's Regret: Darling, Don’t Leave Me novel Chapter 434

Chapter 342-retter Than Expected.

Chapter 342: Better Than Expected.

Vanessa

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I don’t move, not an inch. My back is pressed against the wali, my hand still near the doorknob, my breath held as if the slightest sound could betray me………

And I listen… I listen to everything.

Every word, every silence… Every pause.

Ethan, Clara… Their voices pierce the door like knives… like pieces of a puzzle beginning to fall into place before me.

At first… I don’t understand, I only gather fragments.

“…I don’t remember..” “…we remarried…” “…honeymoon…” “…trying to have a baby…”

My heart beats faster, harder. But it’s not fear, it’s something else. It’s… absolute focus.

And then… She says it clearly. Without a doubt.

“I don’t remember.”

And then… Everything changes.

My eyes widen a little, my breath catches, my mind… Goes blank for a second. And then… It explodes.

“She doesn’t remember…”

I repeat it in my mind, slowly. Savoring it.

“She doesn’t remember anything…”

I feel something inside me expand, warm, alive. And dangerous.

I keep listening, not missing a single word. Ethan trying, desperately insisting.

Talking to her about their history, their wedding, their life. About that child who never even came to be.

And she… She doesn’t connect.

She doesn’t feel, she doesn’t recognize, she doesn’t believe.

“For me… you’re the man I divorced.”

That sentence… That sentence… It makes something inside me vibrate.

My lips part slightly, and then… I smile.

I can’t help it, I don’t want to.

I bring my hand to my mouth, covering it, holding back the sound. But not the emotion, because this…

This… It’s perfect. Much better than I imagined, much better than any other ending.

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Lelose my eyes for a second. And I let that feeling wash over me completely.

“She’s alive…”

Yes.

“She’s okay…”

Also, but… She doesn’t remember him, she doesn’t want him, she doesn’t feel him.

I open my eyes slowly, my gaze fixed on the door. On that thin barrier that separates his world from mine.

“Ethan…”

I whisper in my mind, I can imagine his face right now. Broken, disoriented, lost.

And for the first time since all this…. It doesn’t hurt, it doesn’t bother me, it doesn’t make me

uncomfortable.

No.

It feels… Right.

I hear it again, the silence between them, the distance, the tension. That conversation that fixes nothing.

That doesn’t rebuild anything, that only makes what already is clearer. An emptiness, irreversible. And then I understand completely, I don’t have to do anything else.

Nothing.

Fate has already done the work for me, or rather… I did it, and this… This is the consequence.

Perfect, precise, ironic.

A small laugh escapes behind my hand; I stifle it immediately.

I can’t risk it, not now. Not so close.

I hear movement inside; I can’t stay any longer. I already have what I came for.

More than I expected, much more.

I move away from the door slowly, without making a sound. Each step calculated, controlled. But inside… I’m burning up.

I walk down the hallway, without looking back, without stopping. My reflection appears in a glass surface.

And this time… I don’t hide it.

I smile broadly, satisfied, alive.

“This is better…”

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