Chapter 484
Looking into her unbothered eyes, the relaxed facade Jarred had been struggling to maintain finally cracked.
He knew she was the one pulling the strings behind the scenes.
Without her permission, Daisy wouldn’t have been able to spend all that money.
Without her indulgence, Daisy wouldn’t have dared to be so arrogant.
Without her direct orders, the media wouldn’t have dared to cross him.
He just never expected it.
The woman he had secretly loved for so many years had delivered the final, fatal blow.
She had stabbed him right in the chest with her own hands.
A suffocating wave of despair washed over him, making it hard to even breathe.
He didn’t care about the millions of dollars Daisy had blown through.
What broke him was the fact that his own wife had orchestrated it all.
She truly didn’t love him at all. In fact, she found him to be a nuisance.
She was so desperate to get rid of him that she would rather spend all this time and energy scheming against him than try to make their marriage work.
Whatever she wanted, he would gladly give it to her.
But she didn’t want a single thing from him.
He fought to suppress the chaotic emotions threatening to spill over, his dark eyes fixed on her beautiful face.
“If I divorce you, does that mean there will never be a chance for us to get back together p>
Sienna nodded. “Yes p>
Jarred swallowed hard, his eyes swirling with a mix of rebellious pride and sheer devastation. “But in this world, there are only things I choose to discard. There has never been someone I wanted but couldn’t have p>
“Things change, and people are unpredictable,” Sienna met his gaze calmly.
“Until the very last moment, nobody knows what the final outcome will be.
When Celeste Carlyle went through hell to drag you back, she probably never expected that you would end up marrying me instead p>
Jarred stared at her with deep, heavy eyes, uttering a single sentence in a low voice: “I will make everyone involved in this pay the price p>
“I know,” Sienna offered a faint smile, already completely prepared.
“Fine,” the man closed his eyes and let out a long, weary exhale.
When he opened them again, his tone was entirely flat, as if all his emotions had been drained away. “You win p>
“Tomorrow at 9 AM, Civil Registry Office. Don’t be late p>
Sienna’s pupils shrank slightly, a fleeting sense of disbelief washing over her.
Even though this was the exact result she had meticulously plotted.
Hearing those words of surrender come straight from his mouth still felt utterly surreal.
She paused for a moment, then replied softly, “Okay p>
Almost the second she finished speaking, Jarred abruptly turned around.
Sienna looked up, only catching sight of his broad back as he strode out the door.
She had never seen him act so devoid of manners.
At the very least, every time they had spoken before, even if it ended poorly p>
He had never walked out in the middle of a conversation like this.
She figured she had finally crossed his absolute bottom line.
Jarred walked down the corridor.
From start to finish, he didn’t lose he his composant Deg her to stay, and he didn’t show a hint of weakness.
Even though his chest felt hollow, ravaged by an unbearable agony.
He shoved all of his overwhelming pain into the deepest, darkest corner of his mind.
As long as he was in her line of sight, he would always be the Jarred Sterling who controlled everything and never lost.
It wasn’t until the elevator doors slid shut.
The calm facade he had forcefully upheld completely shattered, his handsome face turning almost transparently pale.
In the empty elevator, the devastation in his eyes spilled over, leaving him looking thoroughly broken and defeated.
It was as if his soul had been sucked out in an instant, leaving him empty, freezing, and engulfed in misery.
Sienna sat in her chair, staring at the closed door, and reached up to massage her temples.
Her phone rang.
It was a group voice call from Thea and Luna Lennox.