Don’t Fall for the Billionaire Lover

No one knew how he managed to come back. No one knew the kind of hardships he had faced out there.

When he saw her being punished, forced to kneel in the room, he still covered for her. "She didn't lose me. I wandered off on my own."

Despite everything she did to him over the years, he never complained about her in front of Jeffery or Marian. Not until that one day when he was ten.

That day, she pushed him into the swimming pool. Connor had always been terrified of water and had never learned to swim. As he fell into the water, he stared at her with sheer disbelief in his eyes.

He struggled at first, shouting, "Save me, save me!" But she just stood there on the shore, indifferent. Her fingers clenched and she started shaking all over. She watched as the disbelief in his eyes turned to pain, then to despair. By the time he sank, he had stopped struggling, just staring at her with a look of pure hopelessness.

In that moment, she saw the birth of hatred in his eyes. For years, that look would continue to haunt her dreams. When Connor lay at the bottom of the pool, she finally softened for a moment. Her frantic screams brought the butler running, and they managed to pull him out. By then, Connor had been suffocating for several minutes. Everyone was in a panic, trying to revive him, while she just stood by.

What was she thinking at that time?

She felt a pain so intense she couldn't breathe, as if something vital inside her was being ripped away. She had always felt that this child trapped her in a cruel past. Every time she saw him, he was constant reminder of the inhuman torture she had endured and of Colin, who had died so tragically. However, in that moment, she genuinely didn't want him to die. Pain had become such an integral part of her life that it had merged into her very being. If Connor had died, it felt like her soul would have shattered into pieces.

Connor was revived. Jeffery stepped forward, demanding to know what had happened, Connor didn't betray her. He simply said he didn't remember. Everyone thought he had lost part of his memory due to the suffocation, but Claire knew he hadn't. From the moment he opened his eyes, the way he looked at her had changed. The intense hatred and cold indifference in his gaze were unmistakable. It was as if his heart had turned to ashes.

From that moment on, he began to resist her. He never tried to please her again, never smiled at her again. There was only silent resistance and a voiceless war between them. Claire closed her eyes. The performance on stage had ended. The actors took their bows and left the stage. She stood up, raising her hand to realize she had been crying.

Meanwhile, the live broadcast was

still ongoing. Although everyone

rand

knew Connor

Chloe were still

alive, no one could pinpoint their

exact location. Connor was overjoyed after his successful proposal. With no one to share his happiness, he even caught a crab, forcing it to listen to the excitement

he couldn't contain. The crab escaped numerous times, but Connor kept catching it and placing it back in his palm. "Do you hear that? I've got a wife now. Her name is Chloe."

"By the way, do you have a wife? What's her name?"

Chloe sat next to him, giving him a disdainful look. "You're nuts!"