The Unwavering Heart That Broke (Nathalie and Lance) novel Chapter 716

Chapter 716

Chapter 716

The atmosphere in the study grew suffocating. The soft, rhythmic sound of sand trickling down an hourglass echoed across the desk, the warped glass reflecting Madonna’s distorted face.

Slowly, she forced her grim expression to soften.

With a heavy sigh, she said, “Lance, I just don’t want you sinking any deeper. You two simply aren’t right for each other anymore.”

“It’s too late for that,” Lance replied flatly. “Nathalie and I have been together for nearly nine years. She is ingrained in every part of me. Loving her is a code written into the very fabric of my soul. I.can’t change that.”

Madonna’s eyes filled with a complicated mix of emotions. “But she doesn’t love you anymore.”

“She still loves me.”

Lance’s response was sharp and uncompromising.

“Lance, you’re…”

Madonna found him completely delusional.

Nathalie loved him?

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If Nathalie loved him, why was she so dead set on divorcing him?

Why would she treat his injuries with such emotional distance?

She had stopped loving him a long time ago!

“It’s exactly because she loves me that she can’t forgive the pain I’ve caused her. It’s why she wants a divorce, why she wants to push me away-because staying away is the only way she can stop hurting.” Lance’s voice strained with raw emotion. He bowed his head slightly, memories of the past rushing back, and his hands balled into tight fists

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on his lap.

“Mom, if she truly didn’t love me anymore, she would be completely indifferent. She wouldn’t torture herself over the past, and nothing I do would provoke the slightest reaction out of her.” He turned his face toward her, his voice trembling faintly.

Madonna still found it absurd. “Lance, you’re just brainwashing yourself.”

Lance’s thin lips pressed into a hard line. After a long, tense silence, he finally spoke. “Mom, I make my own decisions. If you want to stay here and help, then focus your energy on taking care of me and Jasper. Nathalie is my wife, and I won’t tolerate anyone bullying her.”

Madonna was speechless.

This was a blatant warning.

Truthfully, he had warned her countless times before.

But seeing him blindly sacrificing himself for Nathalie always made her lose her temper.

Madonna sighed in defeat. “I’ll try my best.”

Lance stood up. “It’s getting late. I’m going to rest.”

“I’ll walk you to your room,” Madonna offered, standing up as well.

“I want Nathalie,” Lance demanded.

Madonna ground her teeth.

He was absolutely insufferable.

She stormed out of the study, bumping right into Nathalie and Grandma returning from the garden. “Nathalie, Lance is looking for you,” she said tightly.

Nathalie nodded, let go of her grandmother’s arm, and headed upstairs.

Stepping into the study, she found Lance blindly feeling around the desk.

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His hand knocked into a water glass, sending it crashing to the floor where it shattered into dozens of jagged shards.

Nathalie’s eyes widened in panic. She rushed over, grabbing his arm and pulling him two steps back.

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