Chapter 412
Chapter 412
The moment those words left Noelle’s lips, Hendrix suddenly let go of her throat. He kept looking at her as he staggered several steps backward.
Suddenly, he laughed.
“Oh, so that’s how it is. Yes, I’ve known all along. Honestly, Noelle, your acting was never that good. I never said anything because I was willing to be deceived by you. But since you already made the choice to lie to me, why didn’t you just keep lying? Why did you have to ”
“Because there’s no need to anymore,” Noelle interjected. “At this point, continuing to lie would just be ridiculous.”
“And am I not ridiculous now?” Hendrix’s gaze bored into hers. “Why would you do this to me?”
“I told you I hate you.”
This time, Noelle’s answer was clear and absolute.
Hendrix stared at her, and suddenly, a phrase surfaced in his mind “Hate born out of love“.
But as he looked into her eyes, he saw no emotions in them. And that was when he understood–she didn’t feel the same way about him. All that was left was pure hatred.
“Is it because of the baby?” Hendrix asked again. “If I hadn’t switched your birth control pills back then, would we have.”
Noelle didn’t answer.
But her silence was enough of a response–it was also a blade stabbing straight into his heart once more.
He couldn’t help but smile bitterly. “Is that so?”
Noelle responded with a soft “mm“.
Hendrix had more he wanted to ask. But at that moment, his mind went completely blank, rendering him unable to speak.
Noelle just stood there, watching him. Her back was straight, and her chin was slightly lifted. There was still a height difference between them, so even now, she had to look up at him.
And yet, at this moment, Hendrix felt like the one beneath her feet–like a defeated man trampled under her heel.
She stood there, proud and unwavering, holding a banner of victory in her hands. And that banner was stained with the blood from his heart.
“Hurts, does it?” Noelle looked at him and suddenly said, “That feeling of falling from heaven straight into hell- it’s unbearable, isn’t it?
“But Hendrix, I’ve already tasted that pain too many times before. You were right about one thing–if you hadn’t secretly switched my birth control pills a few months ago, maybe, with time, I really would have accepted you again.
“But I ultimately overestimated you. This alone tells me you never truly felt remorse. You never cared about the baby I lost back then. And why would you? If you had, you wouldn’t have spent that day thinking only about buying gifts for Sandra.
“You have no idea what it felt like to lie in that operating room, only to wake up and be told your baby was gone.
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Chapter 412
To walk out and realize that even my own husband was nowhere to be found,”
The past one wound after another–was laid bare by her words, like festering sores on a heart that had never truly healed.
They had always tried to cover it up–to pretend that as long as things were fine now, the past could be erased.
But only Noelle knew what lay beneath that thin, fragile veil–rotting flesh that had long since decayed.
And now, she was tearing that veil away, digging out each wound, one by one, for Hendrix to see.
“It’s been over between us for a long time.”
