Chapter 351 The Mirror of Failure
“No way!”
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Hudson bolted upright, his voice a jagged roar of denial. “She’s loved me for years! We were married for three entire years under the same roof! She loves me! How could she just abandon me now?”
“Why the hell are you screaming at me? You think volume makes you right?!”
Charles Green barked back, exhaling a thick cloud of smoke as he glared at his friend.
Once the smoke cleared, he hit Hudson with the cold, hard truth. “Look at her personality—if she actually cared about your life, would she be saying things that cruel? Hudson, stop lying to yourself.
“Look at those three years. Think about what you actually did.
“You never checked on her. You never told her where you were going. Sometimes you’d dump her in that house for weeks without a single word, only acknowledging her when you needed something. Whose heart survives that kind of neglect?
“You took every sacrifice she made for granted. You trampled all over her love just because you knew she valued you more than her own life, didn’t you?
“Hudson, a frozen lake doesn’t form in a day. A heart turns to ice slowly, and tea only goes cold one sip at a time.
“Those three years aren’t proof of your deep bond. They’re a record of her disappointment, layered one failure on top of another.
“You spent three years proving you’re a failure as a husband. You spent three years pushing her away until she finally vanished.”
When the gilded exterior of the marriage was ripped away, the rot inside was exposed for the world to see,
It was a sickening sight,
Hudson’s lips trembled, his throat feeling as if it were full of glass,
The truth was a blade, slowly carving his heart out,
Slowly, that arrogant head bowed, and he buried his face in his palms, his voice a muffled
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whimper.
“I never meant for it to be like this…”
:
His voice grew raspy, dropping to a barely audible rasp.
“This isn’t the ending I wanted—”
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At that, he snapped his head up, his tone shifting into one of frantic, desperate urgency.
“Charles, you’ve analyzed everything so perfectly. You must know what to do. Help me. Tell me how to fix this.”
Charles crushed his cigarette in the ashtray, raising an eyebrow at the plea.
“Are you serious?”
Hudson barked back, “What do you think?”
Charles looked at him with bored indifference. “If you’d had this realization a year ago, maybe you and Jade wouldn’t be—”
Hudson cut him off with a lethal glare. “Get to the point!”
Charles straightened his back. “I know you’re in a rush, but slow down for a second…”
Hudson was about to snap when Charles finished the sentence.
“Because I don’t have a clue what to tell you.”
Hudson froze. His face turned a dangerous shade of
grey.
“You don’t know? Then why the hell were you lecturing me?”
“I’m just calling the game as I see it, alright?” Charles rolled his eyes so hard it looked painful,
“She’s your ex-wife, not mine, If you don’t know how to handle her, why would I have the answers?”
Hudson didn’t know what to respond,
“Look,” Charles said, leaning in. “If you really want her back, you have to start playing to her interests, don’t you?”
Hudson closed his eyes, looking exhausted. “I’ve sent everything I could think of. I’ve said all
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the right words. I even put the report saying I’m dying of cancer right in front of her face, and she didn’t even blink. What else is there?”
“Maybe it’s the strategy that’s the problem.” Charles rubbed his chin, going back into analysis mode.
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