The Abandoned Wife Dumped Him First (Victoria and Elias) novel Chapter 337

Victoria walked into the room.

Garnett had just hung up. Before she could ask who he was talking to, he handed her the phone. “Victoria, a waiter from The Cloudscape just called. He said Elias had too much to drink at a business dinner. You should go pick him up.”

Victoria took the phone and glanced at the call history. Elias’s number was at the top of the list.

Elias was drunk?

Didn’t he just injure his hand? Why would he be drinking? Did he have a death wish?

Her fingers tightened around the phone as the image of Elias gripping the blade flashed through her mind. The calm she had fought so hard for began to waver.

She didn’t want to see Elias.

Or, more accurately, she hadn’t figured out how to face him.

“Victoria?” Seeing her standing there motionless, Garnett frowned slightly and called her name in confusion.

Victoria snapped back to reality and met his gaze. She opened her mouth to say she couldn’t go, but then she remembered that Garnett had forgotten about their divorce. She was afraid of upsetting him again. In the past few days, while catching him up on the last five months, she had deliberately avoided the topic of her and Elias.

If she refused to go now, Garnett would definitely become suspicious.

She didn’t want any more complications before his surgery. “Okay,” she agreed. “Well… Dad, you get some rest. I’ll bring him home and then come back.”

With that, Victoria grabbed her coat and car keys and started to leave.

Back when Garnett was first imprisoned, he had constantly worried that forcing the marriage would make Elias take out all his frustration and resentment on Victoria.

He was torn. On one hand, he hoped the backing of the Shawn family would protect The Sanger Group and keep Victoria safe from retaliation by the victims’ families. On the other hand, he feared Victoria would be unhappy because of it.

Sensing his anxiety, Victoria started sharing details about her life with Elias during her visits.

For example, she’d say that Elias had returned from a business trip with several gifts for her, all things she loved. In reality, it was she who had returned from a trip with a gift for him, only for him to toss it into the trash without a second thought.

Or she’d recount how she was learning to cook, and Elias went to the supermarket with her and helped out. In reality, Elias had watched with cold indifference as she burned herself with hot oil, cut her finger, and fumbled with seasonings, only to mock her for being clumsy.

Or that on her birthday, he threw her a grand party and formally introduced her to everyone. In reality, on her birthday, she had cooked a table full of food and waited from dusk till dawn, but Elias never came home. In the end, she had lit the candles on her own cake, wished herself a ‘happy birthday,’ blew them out, and ate the cold meal alone.