The Betrayed Heiress Is Now the CEO’s Obsession novel Chapter 72

The storm brewing on Sean’s face was unmistakable. The alt around him turned ice–cold pressure building like a coming thundersion.

Zar was still stuck in the past, clinging to what–its.

“Charlotte. if you’d just told me the truth, we might already be married by now. We could’ve been so happy.”

Charlotte simply looked at lúm—quiet, expressionless. Like a stranger.

“Did you forget, Zac? You once said you’d never marry me. Your mother, Monica, humiliated me to my face. She said girls like me weren’t good enough for the Gibson family ”

Those words, slurp as knives, landed squarely in Zer’s chest.

His eyes filled with tears. His woler cracked.

“The only thing that ever let us apart was status. That’s gone now. There’s nothing stopping us

He took a step forward, reaching out to take her hand–groping at one last chance.

But before he could touch her seau landed a brutal kick to his chest, licking him flat to the ground. Wither salg beat, Sean stepped forward, his polished leather shave pressing down hard on Zac’s face, grinding it into the floor.

The crowd gasped.

The room darkened with the storm in Sear’s eyes. His voice was low, laced with fury.

*i wamed you. Touch her again, and I’ll ruin you.”

Zac didn’t teis

Low his face.

He lay there like a dead fish, lifeless on the floor, Sean’s foot still on

He tumed his head slightly, looking up at Charlotte with hollow, bloodshot eyes. Despair spread through every part of him like poison in his veins.

was in that moment be realized just how pathetic he had breit.

i willi memodes, une all other like old film reels flashing before his eyes Scenes from their time together, i Dow twisted into blades clicing though his heart.

, magents of intimacy and laughter,

Helud messed everything up

He had refused to go home with her, let his mother humiliate her without saying a word, flauded Wendy and like a trophy, and even told her right in front of Wendy–that he would never mury her

He tooled around with Wendy, ed ecklessly, and everance stopped to think about how Charlotte felt.