Caught Him Cheating My Life Restarted (Natalie) novel Chapter 270

“The Cross Group is facing significant operational problems right now. Help from the Ward Group might see us through, but that’s precisely why I don’t want to be indebted to your family any further.

I also want to be clear with you. In my heart, my only wife is Natalie. Even though we’re divorced, she is still my wife and Hanley’s mother. You are my sister-in-law, Hanley’s aunt. You shouldn’t be so involved in our lives.”

Marie was livid. “Shut up, Darren! Just shut up! I don’t believe you have no feelings for me.”

In her rage, a memory surfaced. “I know,” she said excitedly. “You’re still mad at me for marrying your brother, aren’t you?

My parents forced me to marry him. They thought he was more ambitious than you. I know I was wrong, that I hurt you. I was too obedient back then, and I regret it so much now.”

She threw her arms around Darren, but he gently pushed her away. “I know it was because my brother was the heir to the Cross Group, and I was never meant to inherit it. Between the eldest and the second son, your family chose the eldest. I don’t blame you. Even on the day you married him, I never blamed you. My brother was good to me, and I would never turn against him over a woman.”

When Marie had married his brother, Darren had been hurt. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have married Natalie on the rebound. But that was all it was—a rash decision. He never hated Marie, and he certainly never hated his brother.

For five years, neither of them had ever mentioned the past. It was a history they both preferred to avoid. Marie, especially, would never bring it up. But now she realized that, in Darren’s mind, he had been perfectly clear about everything all along.

“Darren, I don’t believe you don’t have feelings for me. Have you forgotten all our happy memories? We went to school together. For my twentieth birthday, you took me out on your yacht. We almost…”

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