His Ex-Wife Is A Billionaire? novel Chapter 955

Evadne's eyes flashed a dangerous crimson, feeling as if an invisible hand was squeezing her insides into a mangled mess of blood and flesh.

After a moment, her voice emerged, raspy and trembling:

"Avery, you hit the nail on the head. I do think about you all the time – about watching you die."

"Ha... Evadne, you're adorable."

Avery's voice was laced with affection. If it weren't for the distance of a phone call separating them, he would have kissed her recklessly. "Even when you hate me, I'm hopelessly, deeply in love with you."

"You, with your venomous, cold-blooded heart, understand love?"

Evadne's eyes were sharp as blades, a chilling sensation swirling in her chest with each tremulous word. "Don't desecrate such a sacred emotion. You're not even worthy of mentioning it!"

"Evadne, I do love. And I don't think I've ever been wrong in that. My love for you is the purest, most sincere. It's always been you. Only you."

Avery's voice was low and hoarse, filled with a restrained agony. "From the moment we met when I was just ten, I've loved no one else but you, Evadne."

Evadne shut her eyes tightly, taking a deep breath, barely holding back nausea.

"Thaddeus never loved you from the start. His heart belonged to another. You spent three years of your youth married to him, giving your all, tending to him meticulously. Yet, in the end, his heart still strayed to another, showering her with all the tenderness he could muster, even casting you, his so-called wife, aside.

You returned to the Ashbourne family, bearing a heart full of scars, only to find yourself once more in the spotlight for your talents, reclaiming your status as Miss Ashbourne. And it was then he started to see you differently.

But had you remained the quiet, unassuming, and tender-hearted woman by his side, would Thaddeus have ever noticed you? Would he have fallen for you? Not at all.

How is that different from being fickle?"

Evadne's lashes fluttered, steadying her spirit.

Yet, those malicious words felt like a blunt knife, slowly and deeply slicing at her heart.

"And me? Since that year I turned ten and met you, up to this very moment, I've never loved another woman. My heart has only room for you, Evadne."

Avery's words, heavy with emotion yet tinged with a hint of madness from unrequited love, flowed through her ears. "For you, I could embrace madness, descend into depravity, destroy the world.

My life is a void of darkness and solitude, only you can breach my heart, only you are vibrant, alive, the one thing I've always yearned for.

His love, shallow, promiscuous, and belated... How can his cheap affections compare to mine? What right does he have to love you?"

"Avery, even now, do you expect to drive a wedge between me and Thaddeus with such vile tactics? Save it."

Evadne laughed brightly, love dispelling all shadows. "Yes, Thaddeus might have loved someone else once, might have hurt me, but even so, I choose to love him, to be with him. In contrast, you've resorted to every scheme, calculated every move, all in vain. To me, you're nothing but a sewer rat."

Her words dripped with scorn, utterly dismissing his fervor. "Avery, does it ever occur to you how pitiful you are?"

A suffocating silence followed.

Then, gently, he spoke:

"Evadne, if that's the case, let me see you one last time, okay?"

Evadne clenched her teeth, "In your dreams."