Crawling Back To Her Series Redemption and Refuse

Chapter 123

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Charles shifts his gaze awkwardly. "I just feel like the kids need a complete family."

"Aaron has changed a lot lately; he's not as willful and spoiled as before.

So-"

"Didn't you marry Miss Browns?"

Charles freezes.

"Back then, everyone toldshe was the wife who suited you, the mother of Aaron."

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"Even though you never said it directly, | figured you agreed."

"So | quit willingly."

"What? So you two ended up not being together?"

Unable to bear my gaze, Charles clenches and then relaxes his hands

unconsciously. "That's all in the past."

"My relationship with you is also in the past."

"But we have a child."

"So what? Charles, stop using others as an excuse."

"It was Vanessa before, and now it's Aaron." | smile softly and say, "Is it really that hard to admit you have

feelings for me?"

| used to wonder just how unworthy | seemed in Charles's eyes that he was so ashamed to acknowledge it.

It's really hard to hide feelings like that. Just like how | never said | loved Charles, but the blush

spreading across my cheeks and my racing heart had long betrayed me.

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My marriage to Charles lasted a full four years.

Though I tend to be somewhat of a people-pleaser, if he had never giveneven

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a glimmer of hope, | couldn't have held on for four years.

| wasn't sure when he started to likeor how much he actually liked me.

| just inherited Grandma Samantha's habit: if something was broken, my first instinct wasn't to throw it away and

get a new one, but to patch it up and use it as long as | could

| applied the smindset to my marriage.

| thought maybe Charles didn't hateas much as | thought, and if | tried a little

harder, perhaps this marriage could work.

| desperately searched for any trace of affection he might have for me, trying to gather those scattered feelings

into something that could illuminate my path forward.