“But she—she agreed to everything…”
“During our divorce’s cooling-off period, she and another woman were kidnapped. The kidnappers forced me to choose between them. I chose the other woman. I left her to die.”
“You call her heartless, say she ignored me kneeling for seven days—kneeling until I passed out from exhaustion. But my seven days on my knees couldn’t even begin to compare to the pain I caused when I tore her wedding dress apart.”
“Passing out ten times isn’t even a fraction of what she endured, blistered hands and all, after I smashed the plate she’d so painstakingly carried.”
“My confessions now are nothing compared to the despair she must have felt, hearing me choose to save someone else while she was tied up and terrified.”
He took a stack of documents from his bodyguard and held them up to the camera, spreading them out for everyone to see. “This is the divorce agreement I forced Charlotte to sign, the one that left her with nothing. And these are the police records from the kidnapping. These—these are my crimes.”
“This isn’t compensation. I know what I owe her—I’ll never be able to repay it in this lifetime.”
“All I want is for everyone to know she’s not the immoral woman you paint her to be. After she left me, she never said a word against me to the press. Instead, she threw herself into developing the artificial heart, hoping to save more lives in the future.”
Finally, he looked straight into the camera. There was no pride left in his eyes—just bone-deep remorse. “Charlotte, I know this livestream might disturb you. I’m sorry.”
“You did nothing wrong. The one who’s always been wrong… is me.”
His voice broke. “I’m sorry…”
That apology sounded like both a farewell to his past mistakes and his last attempt at redemption to Charlotte.
“This is where I’ll end the livestream.”
Darren reached out and turned off the stream. The screen went dark, leaving only a flood of furious comments behind.
“So it wasn’t Mrs. Harrington who abandoned her son—Mr. Harrington forced her to cut ties!”
“Everything the Harringtons said online was a lie! The real villain is the Harrington family!”
They met that afternoon at a café.
Bradley walked in and immediately turned to the barista. “Could you turn up the heat, please? My wife isn’t fond of the cold.”
“Of course, sir.”
After the staff left, Bradley took a seat across from Charlotte. There was an unmistakable spark of hope in his deep eyes. “Lotty, you hardly ever ask to see me.”
It was true—so naturally, she had something important to discuss.
Charlotte took a sip of coffee, then got straight to the point. “Mr. Fairchild, let’s get a divorce.”
Bradley’s smile froze, then slowly faded from his face.
He watched her calm profile, his voice going taut. “Is it because Darren apologized on camera? Are you… are you planning to forgive him?”

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