Chapter 204

Although alone with her children, who had forgotten about her again, Elena couldn't stop her fingers from shaking, remembering cold lips against her forehead and icy eyes behind reading glasses.

She hugged herself, sitting on Mia's bed.

She tried shaking off the feeling that she should be running for her life, which was strange, for she had never felt like this during the years of their contract marriage.

He had looked so harmless and felt mild, to the point that staring at him those times, seeing him frustrated about Alexa, she silently wished she could wipe his despair.

But right now, she wasn't sure. He was showing her a different side to himself, So different sometimes she wondered if she was the one seeing things.

Seeing the children had finally fallen asleep, she switched off the light and left the room, going straight to hers, relieved to have it all to herself for the night; she needed to think things through.

One thing was sure; There wou