This Marriage Must End in Tragedy (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 41

Because he didn’t know how the words he’d just spoken would affect her. Every attempt to reassure her felt like deception.

He couldn’t say anything at all.

His hands tightened on the steering wheel.

Had he always been this selfish and emotional a person?

Why had he become so emotional in the first place? Had playing the role of a man deeply infatuated with a woman somehow scrambled the circuits in his brain?

Yet he couldn’t just stay like this. To mend things with her, he’d have to once again casually spout pleasant-sounding flattery, which would only intensify this suffocating feeling inside him…

No—was it right to agonize over something as trivial as emotion? Was he really this selfish and emotional a person…?

Damion bit hard on one cheek.

For days now, he’d been running in circles through these same thoughts. There truly was no bigger fool.

Fortunately, the car soon reached the end of the ginkgo-lined road and stopped in front of the orphanage. Damion got out of the car as if escaping a treadmill.

“You’ve arrived, Lieutenant. Good day, Madam.”

Delmen, the orphanage’s director, had already come outside before the car even stopped and approached them warmly.

“It’s been a while, Director.”

“But you were here just three months ago! Oh, by the way, we received your advance shipment just fine. I know you must have been busy with the wedding, yet you still remembered us… Thank you so much, as always.”

Three months ago? “As always”? Ansi stared blankly at Damion. He’d claimed to have little interest in charity—had he really been actively involved since three months ago?

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