The Transactional Marriage That Imploded novel Chapter 316

"I had no choice regarding that drone show on Cynthia's birthday. The higher-ups ordered me to arrange it, so I did.

The day you came home, I wanted to explain that it wasn't what it looked like, but I was terrified of facing your questions because I couldn't say a single word.

Then she claimed Lamont was hospitalized, so I used it as an excuse to run.

Then I received your divorce papers. I was completely panicked. I wanted to back out of the sting operation right then and there.

But they wouldn't let me. They had discovered a mole inside the agency.

Things were getting infinitely more complicated.

When you were cyberbullied, I originally wanted you to come to me and ask for help so I could step in, but you completely shut me out.

In the end, I made a massive, unforgivable mistake. I am so sorry, my love.

I thought that once I pushed Aeterna Dynamics to go public, the feds would wrap up the investigation.

So after the IPO, I stopped paying attention to Cynthia. All I wanted was to take Aveline and wait for you to come back. I was terrified you would get hurt all alone out there, and I never stopped sending people to look for you.

I never imagined you'd take a ferry to Coconut Island, so I kept checking flight and train manifests and found absolutely nothing.

Once again, I underestimated you.

Thank God you published that new patent through Cillian Calder. I thought you were doing well.

But I was so angry that you abandoned me and Aveline, and you even lied to me, saying Aveline was some bastard child you had with another man.

When you turn ruthless, you completely disregard my feelings. Every time I looked at Aveline's face—she looks so much like you—I'd bitterly think to myself: since you threw me away, I'll just wait for Aveline to grow up and make her love me.

I wanted to piss you off in the future, only to find out she was my biological daughter and I almost became a complete monster.

I thought my mission would be over once they made the arrests, and I'd finally be able to tell you the truth.

But it wasn't until right before our divorce hearing that they managed to lure the syndicate's top boss back into the country.

You know everything that happened after that. Every time I saved Cynthia, it wasn't because I liked her; it was because they needed their little mascot in play.

Then we would fight every single time, and it felt like my heart was being ripped out.

I couldn't announce our relationship publicly because it wasn't safe. The illusion I fed the Quinn family and the money laundering ring was that I didn't care about you at all.

That I only cared about Cynthia and her kid."

Mathis let it all out in one breath. Bianca stared at him quietly, her expression still laced with deep skepticism.

Mathis knew he had zero credibility with her right now, so he opened his laptop and pulled up a piece of surveillance footage. It showed Cynthia's nightly routine.

Mathis personally handed her a glass of milk. Less than ten minutes after drinking it, she passed out cold, and Mathis immediately left the room.

Bianca sped the video up by sixteen times, watching as Mathis stayed out of the bedroom for the entire night, only returning in the morning to pretend he had just woken up.

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