Chapter 124

Abigail grew angrier as she spoke, her eyes filled with abject hatred for me. "Someone like you should just be a loyal lapdog by my side and beg for crumbs!" Her words left me trembling with humiliation as I despaired. My departure back then was to give her company a chance to rise again from the ashes, to give her the respite she needed to get through the calamity. It seemed that I had used the wrong approach. Regardless, even if I regretted it, would she believe me if I explained things to her? She would probably suspect that I had ulterior motives and that I had only said that to use her. From my perspective, she was akin to a terrible monster. Meanwhile, from her perspective, I was just a conman full of lies. Neither of us believed what the other said. Whatever little bit of love remaining in this marriage had long been worn out from our mutual torment. She was no longer the girl I'd loved deeply in the past, and I was no longer the man she'd loved with all her heart. At th