The Love I Begged For Was Never Real novel Chapter 458

He controlled a billion-dollar empire. The world was at his feet.

Without her dragging him down, he should have been living the ultimate, untouchable life.

Why...

Nora buried her face in her knees, her shoulders shaking violently.

Why, after driving her to her death, was he suddenly putting on this act of deep devotion?

Why did he look at her like she was the love of his life? Why act like a lunatic who had lost everything, going as far as buying out a whole street just to trap her in this remote town?

Was that love?

No. She shook her head frantically.

Gideon would never love her.

He hadn't given her an ounce of genuine care in ten years. There was no way he had suddenly discovered some hidden affection.

Was this a new form of torture? Or was it just his pathological need for control acting up, making him feel that even if his property was dead, her corpse still belonged to him?

Was the torture from two years ago not enough? Did he really have to dig her up out of this forgotten town just to play with her feelings and shove her off a cliff all over again with his fake devotion?

Sitting on the freezing floor, the night breeze crept in through the cracks in the door, making her shiver.

She thought jumping into the sea would end it all.

She never expected it to just be the prologue to another endless nightmare.

A man like Gideon was used to sitting on a throne, used to holding all the cards.

She sneered inwardly. His current "devotion" was nothing more than a bruised ego because she had dared to defy him.

He was packaging his possessive resentment as love, using it to lie to her and to himself.

Did he really think she was still that naive idiot who trailed blindly behind him after he saved her in that alleyway all those years ago?

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