Chapter 276 Exes and Ohs
Lauren nodded, “Yes, I still need to thank Mr. Brooker for saving my life back then.
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Her face wore a grateful smile, but her heart ached in waves. If only my body were intact, but alas, I won’t live much longer.
She bowed her head, hiding her sorrow,
Felix, ever perceptive, noticed the shift in her mood. His lips parted to offer comfort but were interrupted. by an untimely voice.
“Laurie?”
Hearing this, Lauren abruptly looked up and met Luca surprised eyes.
At that moment, Lucas, seated in a wheelchair in a sharp black suit, was a far cry from the beggar rummaging through trash bins not long ago. His legs were covered with a blanket, and his hands rested on a file holder atop it.
His hair was slicked back, and he looked revitalized.
Felix squinted at him, surprised that Lucas, having lost his job and now disabled, had somehow managed a comeback.
Lucas‘ gaze fixed on Lauren, filled with possessiveness.
“Laurie, you have no idea how hard I’ve been searching for you these past days.”
Seeing him spoiled her mood entirely. She was finally out with Mr. Brooker, and now she had run into the last person she wanted to see.
Lauren ignored Lucas and took Felix’s hand, turning to leave.
Lucas wheeled in front of her swiftly, blocking her path
“Laurie, aren’t you happy to see me?”
Lauren scoffed, “Lucas, you framed me for Willow, and ended up serving five years for nothing. I can’t stand you.”
His smile stiffened, but he quickly recovered.
“Laurie, that’s all in the past, and I didn’t know the truth back then. We grew up together, you know how I feel about you.”
“Exactly because we grew up together, I was blind to your true, deceitful nature,” Lauren retorted sarcastically. “Otherwise, I would never have wasted a dime on you.”
Lauren’s repeated cold remarks visibly twisted Lucas‘ expression.
Despite his outwardly decent appearance, his psyche had been warped by his trials.
He glanced at Felix, standing tall and handsome beside Lauren, and spat out bitterly. Is it because of him
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the hospital for a pregnancy test, and now, not much later, you’re with another man. What, did you abort the bastard child and ditch that man for someone bett?”
At Lucas‘ baseless accusations, a fierce chill flashed in Felix’s eyes.
He was about to confront Lucas when Lauren wrapped her arms around him first.
She shook her head slightly, signaling Felix to stay calm, then looked straight at Lucas, a faint smile of contentment on her face, “Whatever you say.”
Lucas thought his accusations would leave Lauren speechless and ashamed, but instead, she responded with indifference, as if to say, “You’re right, I am promiscuous, and I do want to rise to the top.
Her nonchalant demeanor infuriated him, his anger flaring so intensely he almost wished he could shake her awake and demand why she had sunk so low,
Unfortunately, now wheelchair–bound and without the use of his legs, he could only watch helplessly as Lauren affectionately embraced Felix in front of him.
Shaking with anger, Lucas gripped the wheelchair’s armrests so tightly his knuckles turned white, as if trying to crush them.
Lauren thought, seeing Lucas act like a buffoon, she didn’t need to explain herself. He could think whatever he wanted; in her heart, Lucas had become insignificant, stirring not even a ripple..
The less she explained, the more indifferent she appeared to Lucas, the more intolerable it became for him.
He had grown accustomed to Lauren’s undivided attention.
Used to her struggling and sacrificing for him, sending him all her hard–earned money without reservation, that feeling of being wholeheartedly devoted to made him immensely satisfied, even smug. believing himself to be irresistibly charming.
But now, all the genuine affection that used to come so easily was mercilessly withdrawn by Lauren. Her tenderness was now bestowed upon another man, and Lucas could not accept that.
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