The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance novel Chapter 1999

Stella offered him a cold, mocking smile.

"To me, Joshua, you were just a weapon—a stepping stone to get what I wanted. But this blade is a little too sharp. It cuts others, and it cuts the one holding it. So, I had to toss it away."

Joshua stared her down. "I am not a toy you can pick up and throw away whenever you please, Star."

"You just demanded too much," she countered flatly.

"So, you still plan on leaving me?"

Her fingers twitched. He phrased it as though staying together was still an option—as if all the horrific things she had done to him could just be erased.

She lowered her gaze. "I've already agreed to remarry Haynes."

A twisted, manic light flared in Joshua's eyes. "I waited for you all week. If you had just come to me and said one sweet word, I would have forgiven everything. But you didn't. Instead, you paraded around with him every single day. I am furious right now, Star."

His lips curled into a smile completely devoid of warmth. The air around him turned suffocatingly dangerous.

"Are you absolutely sure you want to keep pushing me?"

Stella's breath hitched. Her survival instinct screamed that she had crossed a fatal line. If she kept pushing, something unspeakable was going to happen.

She turned her face away. "Get out. I'm going to bed."

A low, dark chuckle rumbled in his chest. "Since you love kids so much, let's just have one. That way, you won't have the energy to look at other men."

Panic spiked in her veins. Before the word could even leave her lips, he seized her, crushing his mouth against hers in a punishing, bruising kiss.

His eyes were wild, consumed by a primal darkness. The deep obsidian of his irises was bleeding into a terrifying, bloodthirsty red—a look of pure, unadulterated obsession.

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