The Wife You Buried Is Back from Hell novel Chapter 1488

"It's your business, and it's hers too."

Alex spoke with a slow, measured cadence. "You think you're protecting her, but did you ever bother to ask if this is the kind of protection she wants?"

"She wants to go abroad and work for Doctors Without Borders. It's her dream. She's been preparing for it for years."

"With one word, you smashed all her hard work to pieces. You locked her in a gilded cage and forced her to spend the rest of her life under your thumb."

"Sammie, that's not how love works."

Alex's tone was soft, but every word felt like a knife twisting in the gut:

"Chaining her to your side won't make her grateful, and it won't make her love you. It will only make her hate you."

"Hate you down to her very marrow."

"Hate you so intensely that for the rest of her life, the mere thought of you will bring her nothing but sheer terror and suffocation."

A heavy, suffocating silence descended on the study.

Sammie lowered his gaze, his long lashes completely obscuring the turbulent emotions in his eyes. Nobody could tell what was going through his head.

An eternity seemed to pass before he finally looked up.

"I know."

Sammie's voice was low, carrying an imperceptible rasp. For the first time, he let the mask slip in front of another person.

"I know she'll hate me."

"I know everything I'm doing is only making her despise me more and driving her further away."

"I know I'm being selfish. I know I'm crossing the line. I know I'm being unreasonable."

With every confession, his face grew a shade paler.

Alex watched him, letting him speak.

It was obvious that Sammie knew exactly what he was doing—he just didn't have a choice.

"Then why are you doing it?"

Alex asked quietly. "Letting her go is the best thing for her, and for you."

"She can go chase her dreams, and you can live your life with Chloe. You go your separate ways and never look back. Wouldn't that be better?"

VERIFYCAPTCHA_LABELVerify