The Love I Begged For Was Never Real novel Chapter 86

He was fulfilling his duties as a husband, using his businessman's logic to offer her a transaction of equal value.

But he simply did not love her.

Because he didn't love her, he couldn't understand her pain or empathize with her suffering.

In Gideon's eyes, he believed this marriage was something she had forcefully demanded, utilizing Silas's dying wish to bulldoze her way into his and Giselle's lives. He saw her as an invader who had shattered his perfectly arranged plans.

He could give her many things—extravagant jewelry, a credit card with no limit, and even this belated apology right now.

But he absolutely refused to spare her a single ounce of love.

Gideon was like the bright moon hanging high in the sky. He was powerful, composed, and radiant. He illuminated the Hayes Group's corporate empire, illuminated the Xavier family's crumbling reputation, and effortlessly illuminated Giselle's entire world without reservation.

Only Nora, standing closer to him than anyone else, remained perpetually walled off from his light, left to endure the boundless, freezing dark all on her own.

She had always remembered the stale cracker he handed her in that cramped shed, remembered his back standing in front of the broken window to block the biting wind for her. She had thought that was their special bond, proof that they had survived the darkness together.

She thought she had caught the light, thought that as long as she gripped his hand tightly, they could escape hell together.

But when the Hayes family found them, he hadn't hesitated to take Giselle's hand instead.

He had walked Giselle into the sunlight, leaving Nora all alone in that bleak inferno. From that moment on, his light had never shined on her again.

She was always the one left behind.

Even after she was returned to the Xavier family, even as she exhausted herself trying to catch up to him, even when she finally achieved her dream of marrying him.

That destined feeling of being abandoned and ignored had never once changed.

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