Burn Me Once, Burn With Me novel Chapter 598

The woman looked up, her face still pale from having just woken up.

"Go back? I just fainted, and you want me to go back now?"

She bit her lip, her eyes wide with disbelief.

Hanley sighed in exasperation, a flicker of annoyance in his mind.

"Violet, it's not that I don't care about you, but you know the situation. Since you're physically fine, it's safest to leave as soon as possible."

But when faced with Violet, he still tried his best to placate her.

"Safety, safety! In your heart, am I less important than your schemes? You wanted to get rid of me a long time ago, didn't you!"

She roared, staring at Hanley's face as if demanding a satisfactory explanation.

"Violet, who do you think I'm doing all this for? If it were just me, I could have just left the country and been done with it. But your unexpected pregnancy put me under immense pressure. If I had wanted to get rid of you, I would have cut you off cleanly after marrying Frieda. Why would I have stayed entangled with you all these years, setting you and Ulysses up comfortably abroad? If it weren't for me, how would you have enjoyed the life of a wealthy woman for all this time?"

Hanley didn't back down, retorting sharply.

The two of them were at loggerheads, on the verge of turning on each other.

Hanley's sharp accusations and questions felt like a knife twisting in Violet's heart.

She stared in disbelief at the man she loved, every word a reminder of his charity towards her.

In all these years, had he never once considered her difficulties?

They were childhood sweethearts, but she had stepped aside so he could climb the social ladder through Frieda. For years, she had followed him without any official status, without any complaints. And in the end, she had become a "pressure" in his eyes?

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