The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance novel Chapter 1703

"Beckett!" Laurel Quinn sharply cut Beckett off. "That's all in the past. Don't bring it up again. And Joshua doesn't owe me anything. Everything I did, I did willingly."

Beckett's tone was sarcastic. "He didn't keep the promise he made to me. Does saying he was hypnotized and forgot give him a free pass to break his word without a second thought?"

Laurel Quinn shook her head, looking somewhat helpless.

"Those were my choices, and they had nothing to do with Joshua. Beckett, you shouldn't direct your anger about it at him. Since I made the decision, I have to bear the consequences."

"But you were the one who was hurt the most by it!" Beckett argued. "And everyone around him misunderstands you..."

"That was also my choice," Laurel Quinn said, her expression indifferent. "Now, all three of us have achieved our goals and gotten what we wanted. We all have new lives. Stop dwelling on the past. You need to move forward too."

Beckett looked at his sister, who was always so rational and clear-headed, his eyes filled with pity and pain. He knew that her composure was just a defense mechanism. She had been like this ever since they were children.

Beckett had known Laurel Quinn long before he met Joshua. At the time, he was just a foster child living with the Quinn family, an outcast just like her.

He would never forget how the eight-year-old Laurel Quinn had looked at him for the first time and said she wished she had a handsome older brother like him. Later, on her tenth birthday, she made a wish over a cake made of mud, hoping he would become her brother. He had finally granted her wish.

"Are you two done with your little performance?"

Joshua's cool voice broke through Beckett's drifting thoughts.

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