Trouble in Paradise

Chapter 0191

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an instant.

Out of habit, I walked to my study and looked at the various case files spread across the desk. A bitter feeling welled up in my heart. It felt as if all the documents I had pored over night after night for the past week suddenly turned into snowflakes, falling from the sky. As the snowflakes fell on me, they seemed to carry infinite weight. I felt my body sink. I collapsed powerlessly to the ground until they buried me. Laying in a pile of ruins, I was utterly bewildered.

Why? What did Nicholas want? Why was he doing this to me?

The conflict between Nicholas and me always involved that one person. He would only go to such lengths because of Claudia.

If his goal was to make me disappear from the public eye, then any unfavorable information I might release about Claudia in the future would not receive much attention or be believed! Only this could satisfy his motives and achieve his goals. So compared to Claudia, what did I even mean to him?

I had accepted that he did not give me a perfect marriage, so I turned my focus on rekindling my career instead. But now, he was not even going to spare my fledgling career.

I had even once fantasized that he actually had a little feelings for me. I had to be truly, hopelessly crazy.

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