Chapter 91

“It’s more than that. It’s been there in my head for months now. The worse things got between us. I’ve hidden a lot of it from you. The calls, texts, the drop-ins to my office, and the constant demands and emotional blackmail. Rhea has been clinging on and making life hell for me since we got married, but she’s so good at projecting that kind and loving girl on the world that I wanted to believe it was all fallout and would pass in time.”

YuZhi sighed and watched the percolator filling the coffee jug, pushing their mugs aside, and leaning down to rest his arms and face on the cool worktop. Exhaling with a long blow to try and ease the building headache.

TangShi came around, hating seeing him like this, and rubbed his back and shoulder, trying anything to comfort him because he made her heart bleed. She knew he was confused and frustrated, and she didn’t want that tiny flicker of hope to grow when her gut said none of this was real. He was drunk, even if he didn’t seem it