The Divorce That Brought Us Back novel Chapter 411

He employed his tactics for over a year.

Nora evolved from being too shy to reject his invitations to becoming an expert at manufacturing excuses to avoid him.

His pursuit was actually regressing.

The suffocating sense of panic in Maloney's chest grew impossible to ignore.

He decided that once she graduated—no, once she hit her senior year—he would launch a full-scale offensive.

And he certainly wouldn't be using these gentle, kid-glove methods anymore.

Nora was the only woman he would ever claim.

She was the only one for this lifetime.

Failure was absolutely not an option.

But before he could unleash his aggressive strategy, the news dropped that Nora was getting engaged to Sebastian Sinclair.

Maloney maintained a mask of total indifference, but internally, a violent storm raged. "She's only a sophomore."

"So what if she's a sophomore?" Lee sneered, long exhausted by Maloney's agonizingly slow approach. "She's legally old enough to get married."

"What's Sebastian's stance on this?"

"He hasn't said a damn thing."

Why would Sebastian object?

The Sinclair empire was bleeding out, and Sebastian was thirty and still unmarried. Given Nora's exceptional qualities, if she was willing, the Sinclairs would undoubtedly throw a massive parade to bring her into the fold.

Maloney fell into a dead silence before stating, "Sebastian is involved with someone else."

"You mean Bella Monroe?" Lee paused. "The Sinclairs will never let her cross their threshold."

It was true; the Sinclairs vehemently opposed Bella.

At one point, the tension between the Sinclairs and the Cole Family was incredibly hostile.

Yet Sebastian remained hopelessly entangled with Bella.

Frankly, even Maloney couldn't wrap his head around it.

Bella wasn't particularly stunning, and her vicious reputation was legendary among the Capital Elite. Just how desperate was Sebastian to keep crawling back to her?

There were two possible explanations.

First: A grown man's late rebellious phase. Sebastian had lived under his grandfather's crushing authority his entire life, his education, career, and romantic life entirely dictated for him. Too cowardly to rebel in his youth, he was finally lashing out by clinging to the exact woman his family despised as a pathetic display of autonomy.

Second: Bella had some serious blackmail on him.

Maloney personally leaned toward the second theory.

At the time, he hadn't fully investigated the Cole Family and was unaware of the chaos that would unfold.

Regardless, Sebastian was a terrible match.

Maloney refused to believe Nora actually harbored feelings for him.

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