Whats She Overheard in Her Own Marriage novel Chapter 251

Chapter 251

Chapter 251

“Noelle is already frail. She took a bad fall, and now she’s back in the emergency room. What will it take for you to finally let her go?” Finnian Sanders slammed his fist onto Kaia Chavez’s desk. The deafening crash made Kaia’s ears

glare. “If you care about her

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up, her temper flaring as she met his furious much, go stay by her hospital bed. Why come here to throw

a tantrum? Does this have anything to do with me?”

Finnian hadn’t expected Kaia to play innocent so flawlessly. How was it not her fault? If it weren’t for her, his grandmother would never have flown into such a rage and forced Noelle to read that statement.

He took a menacing step forward, staring down at her. “Why did Grandmother suddenly demand this press conference? Why did Noelle have to read that humiliating clarification in front of the media? Are you really going to stand there and pretend you don’t know?”

Kaia’s expression didn’t waver. Facing his aggressive gaze, she refused to back down an inch. “Are you accusing me?”

“Who else could it be?” Finnian’s voice was tight with suppressed fury. “In the Sanders family, you’re the only one Grandmother listens to. You’ve always been her favorite.”

His chest heaved with heavy breaths.

Kaia looked at the man standing before her, crusading for Noelle Lawrence, and suddenly felt like she was looking at a stranger.

She had looked at this face for seven years. She had seen him radiant with success, exhausted from overwork, and red–eyed when their daughter was sick. Now, she was seeing him trembling with rage–all for the sake of another woman.

“Finnian,” she said, letting out a cold, cynical laugh. “Did you come here to ask me a question, or did you come specifically to berate me?”

Finnian froze, nailed to the spot as his tense nerves sobered slightly.

Kaia looked at him with profound disappointment. “If you’re here to ask, I’ll tell you right now: I had no idea about this. But if you came here to scream at me, by all means, keep going.”

Her heart had completely iced over. She no longer cared what this man said. She had actively built a wall around herself, shutting out his dramatic love and hate for the other

woman.

When Finnian met her bitterly disappointed eyes, his whole body stiffened. He took a deep breath, his voice dropping several decibels. “Kaia, can you please just let her be? Stop being so cold–blooded. She came to the Sanders family when she was nine after losing her parents. Every step she’s taken hasn’t been easy. She’s not like

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family to fall back on. She’s like a frightened rabbit, all alone…”

“Enough. I don’t want to hear this. Save that speech for Noelle so she knows just how much her pain tears you apart,” Kaia cut him off sharply.

“Stop driving her into a corner, okay?” Finnian’s breathing grew heavy.

Driving her into a corner?

Hearing those words, Kaia actually laughed.

When Finnian saw that smile, something in his chest violently constricted.

“Do you think this is funny?” he asked.

“I’m laughing at myself,” Kaia replied. “Laughing at the fact that I’m actually standing here, listening to you spew this garbage.”

Finnian felt as though he had been struck by a whip. His Adam’s apple bobbed uncontrollably.

“I just want you to stop being so ruthlessly cold to your own family. I want you and Noelle to go back to how you be…”

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“Finnian, that’s what you want. Don’t force me to play along,” Kaia said, her eyes turning glacial. “You just said I’m driving her into a corner. You said she struggled to survive in the Sanders family and that I have a warm family to lean on. What? Just because I have something, does that mean she’s entitled to it too?”

“You say her life was hard since she joined the family at nine. Well, do you think my life was easy after marrying you at twenty–one?” Kaia glared at him. ‘I left my family too. I moved to a strange place. We didn’t marry for love; it was built on business and calculations, and I accepted that. But put your hand on your heart and tell me, Finnian–in these seven years, how many times have you protected me? I’ve been less of a wife to you and more of a weapon, bleeding and fighting on the front lines for Aethelstan…”

She stopped herself. Suddenly, she didn’t want to speak anymore. She closed her eyes and sank back into her chair.

The office fell completely silent, save for the sound of their breathing.

Finnian took a step back, the energy draining from his body.

He wanted to say something, but the words lodged in his throat, refusing to surface.

eyes “This isn’t the first time you’ve come here looking for a fight over her,” Kaia said, her closed. “I know you care for her. I know you want to protect her because you think she’s suffered some monumental injustice. But I don’t care about your drama with her. Do you understand?”

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Finnian’s throat tightened painfully. Staring at the woman who had blatant disgust written

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across her face, his breathing hitched.

“Kaia…”

“You can leave now,” she dismissed him coldly. “I’m sure your heart has already flown back to her bedside. You should take your body there, too.”

“Kaia, I…”

“Get out!” Kaia rarely lost her temper, but this time, she simply couldn’t rein in her emotions. When the command ripped from her throat, both of them froze.

A flash of absolute shock crossed Finnian’s face. Slowly, he backed away and walked out the door of her office.