The Rose He Showed Off Is Putting Down Roots in a Garden of Her Own novel Chapter 318

Zane was an untouchable titan in the real estate industry. He possessed the sheer financial power to single-handedly resurrect Vance Properties.

He was divorced, which meant he had every legal right to marry Elara.

Julian was forced to swallow the bitter reality: Elara had successfully secured a terrifyingly powerful replacement.

Even though the ink wasn't dry on their divorce papers, Julian had practically been entirely erased from her life.

A suffocating tightness gripped his chest. He took a vicious drag of his cigarette, wincing again as the bruised muscle in his cheek flared. "Elara... you can't do this to me," he rasped, his voice thick with defeat.

Elara stared at the man who felt like a complete stranger, feeling absolutely nothing.

The man she had once loved so deeply now sparked not even a flicker of emotion in her heart.

In that quiet moment, Elara knew she had truly let go.

"Julian, let's just hold onto whatever dignity we have left."

Julian ignored her plea entirely. "Is he really that incredible?"

"Yes. He treats me incredibly well," Elara answered simply.

"You're a disgusting whore. Screaming like an absolute slut just to get off."

"Is he that massive? Does he make you act like complete trash?!"

Elara froze, the sickening realization hitting her like a freight train.

She realized he was talking about the private hot spring last night.

Her eyes widened in absolute shock—Julian had been the one on the other side of that partition?

"Have you been swallowing him since the very begin—"

*Smack!*

Elara stepped forward and drove her palm into his handsome face with blinding force. "Shut your mouth!"

Elara's composure fractured. Her strict, conservative upbringing made the reality of last night's uninhibited passion humiliating to confront openly.

But she was no longer the fragile, naive woman she used to be.

She forced her racing heart to steady. "If you ever speak to me like that again, I will personally leak every filthy detail about your pregnant mistress to the press and ruin your reputation overnight."

The mention of the lost baby extinguished the last bit of fight in Julian's eyes.

He slumped onto the edge of the bed in defeat, puffing on his cigarette in complete, hollow silence.

Elara hated seeing him like this.

The Julian Sterling in her memories had always been flawlessly polite, radiant with ambition.

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