After Divorce, I Became The Ex-husband's True Love

ncer. Less than th

e sank weakly onto the steps. All week she'd been battling nausea, thinking mayb

wanted to call her husband, but couldn't bring herself to di

o hated her most was her own hus

ays been unreadable, mysterious. After his parents died, he'd been hit with recurring fevers. She'd st

ne-the love of his life. When Regina vanished soon after, Bellatrix was forced into m

oward her. That someday he'd return her feelings-that their mar

sleep with her, they barely interacted. He wouldn't even share meals. To him,

nths left. If Cillian heard the

d to reach him. Three calls went straight to voicemail. Maybe he's in a meeting, she t

ered to her feet, her body threatening to buckle. As she reached

fr

pital doors-tall, powerfully built, draped in a desig

e? Did he know she was s

Cillian immediately turned and bent int

is embrace. The longer she looked, the colder the dread spreadi

ored eyes. And that unmistakable aura of woun

aster. Her

ver her marriage. The woman poison

was carved into her husband's heart. But seeing it. he

or. So why did he get to stomp on her dignity like this? She had e

trix didn't miss the triumphant gleam in he

on Bellatrix. The tenderness vanished, replace

, his brow furrowing

xplain about her diagno

idney's a match. That's why I came back. But I could never as

refused. She had cancer. Ano

t through hers lik

I'm just some scheming villain. No!" Sh

lamped ont

we her," Cillian snapped. "Y

, stunned. "What. what

om me, forced her into that life. You owe her. You're going to repay every bit of i

f it w

he forced the words out, each one fragile. "

stion, but she

a dagger. "I don't care. Sick, dying-it changes nothing. You will give Gina t

She opened her mouth to speak-but erupted into viole

s. "Oh god! I can't get sick now! Cillian,

or not, Bellatrix wanted to throw s

h women looked at him. He met Bellatrix's stare

t like the gr

. "Cillian, that's too har

Regina," he murmured sof

d so tight her nails bit into her palms. The

didn't care.

ose-she'd hoped today would be different. As

n her half-sister o

ned, harsher this time. She couldn't let them keep sto

eady herself, her knees buckled. She collapsed