Divorce me I'm done serving you (Ayla) novel Chapter 848

Nina watched Edgar go quiet, his mind clearly somewhere else, and her fingers tightened around the bedsheet. Every time. Every single time she brought up something negative about Halle, Edgar shut down. No reaction, no reassurance. What was he thinking? Why couldn't he just say something, anything, to put her at ease?

She reached for his hand. "Are you upset?"

Edgar snapped back to the present, saw the worry in her eyes, and shook his head. "No."

"You are. If hearing stuff like this bothers you, I just won't tell you anymore."

"I'm really not upset," Edgar said. "Don't overthink it."

He checked the time. "I need to get back to work. Once this IV finishes, I'll have my driver take you home."

"You're leaving already?" The resentment inside Nina swelled. He couldn't stay one night?

"I had a work event tonight to begin with." Edgar patted her cheek gently. "Be good. Stop worrying."

Nina was furious, but she knew the rules. Edgar liked her compliant, dependent, never pushing back. The moment she fought with him, he'd pull away even further.

So even though she was seething, she swallowed it. "Okay. Don't work too hard."

Edgar nodded and walked out.

Nina stared at the door after it closed, trembling with rage. She ripped the IV needle from the back of her hand.

Blood welled up instantly, but she didn't care. Her eyes burned with desperate, bitter fury.

Why did every mention of Halle send him spiraling? Why would he never tell her what he was thinking? It was always like this. Always.

Edgar was hyper-attuned to everything involving Halle. The second her name came up, something shifted in him. If Nina pressed, he either went silent or changed the subject entirely.

She was exhausted. Exhausted from trying to decode a man who refused to be read. And she was done living like this.

Edgar got in the car and yanked his tie loose, agitated. A minute ago he'd been content to sit with Nina. Then Halle's name came up, and all he wanted was to leave. Now his head was full of nothing but her.

VERIFYCAPTCHA_LABELVerify