Unmasked My CEO Ex-Husband’s Regret novel Chapter 258

Elara stared at the screen.

Her fingers froze over the keyboard, her mind momentarily blank.

Returning the favor?

What favor?

It took her a long moment to realize what he meant. Once the shock wore off, she let out a quiet, exasperated laugh.

She deleted the half-finished sentence and typed: [Hey now, didn't you literally just say the past is the past and I shouldn't dwell on it?]

[Why are you suddenly operating on double standards?]

Sebastian: [It's not a double standard. The rules were just different to begin with.]

Elara didn't know what to say.

What rules?

She had taken care of him briefly, so in his eyes, everything he was doing now was simply "returning the favor" for her past kindness?

She thought his logic was completely absurd, but unable to come up with any other explanation, she simply texted him exactly what she was thinking.

Two seconds later, Sebastian replied: [Exactly.]

Elara stared at the single word.

She was utterly speechless, but this time, the laughter died in her throat.

Just as Sebastian had said, it had been over a decade. Back then, she had only looked after him because her heart ached for a traumatized child. She never had any ulterior motives. She never expected anything in return from him, the Becketts, or the Vances.

She hadn't thought that way then, and she certainly didn't think that way now.

But she never imagined that a simple act of compassion would be etched so deeply into Sebastian's memory for all these years.

To repay a debt he had carried in his heart, he was willing to rip open his own deepest traumas.

Thinking back to the ugly suspicion she had harbored when he first offered his help, guilt gnawed at her so intensely she couldn't even look at his name at the top of the chat screen.

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