After Divorce, I Returned as the Army's Queen novel Chapter 136

Chapter 136 You’re the Only One I Like

Willow’s face turned deathly pale as she suddenly rushed forward, clutching at Brian’s sleeve. “Brian, you can’t treat me this way. I sacrificed an eye for you. How could you cut ties with me just like that?”

Brian looked at her coldly. “You never sacrificed your eye for my sake. You were simply too late to escape that day. If you’d been able to run, you surely would have. Besides, isn’t everything I’ve given you over the years enough compensation?”

Willow’s entire body trembled. She wanted to argue, but how could she when so many people were

present?

Could she say that he hadn’t compensated enough? Could she demand that he spend the rest of his life making it up to her?

“But for you, I-” Willow’s lips quivered as she tried to speak.

Before she could finish, Brian cut her off coldly. “Willow, I never had even the slightest bit of affection for you. What I gave you was just compensation for injuring your eye. And now, that debt has been paid.”

With that, he pulled his arm free of her grasp and left with Chloe.

Willow staggered and nearly collapsed to the ground.

Everyone was staring at her, especially the Qualls, who’d once looked at her with envy. Now, their gazes were filled with a mix of sympathy, mockery, and disdain.

It had been a long time since Willow had felt the sting of such looks.

Ever since Brian had injured her eye, her status in the Quall family had soared. Overnight, everyone had

started to fawn over her, and their treatment of her had changed completely.

And now, was she being dragged from heaven back to hell?

“Willow, why are you just standing there? Go after him! If you beg him properly, he’ll surely take back what he said!” Leonard urged Willow.

Geoffrey slammed his cane hard against the floor. “Haven’t you humiliated yourselves enough?”

Then, he turned to look at Carla. “I’ve already heard about Sonya’s matter. The Quall family has already

done what we can for her. What you need to do now isn’t force Chloe to take responsibility for Sonya, but

to seek forgiveness from the family of the victim who burned alive.”

Carla’s expression turned ugly, while Leonard didn’t dare to utter a single word.

As for Willow, she stood there blankly. Her face was ashen, and she barely even heard a single word Geoffrey said.

Her fists clenched so tightly that her nails dug into her palms. She refused to accept it. In fact, she

couldn’t.

She’d lost an eye and paid such a heavy price. How could she allow things to go back to the way they

used to be?

Chloe and Brian walked out of Quall Group. Once they were in the car, Chloe couldn’t help but glance at

Brian.

“What is it? Why are you looking at me like that?” Brian asked.

“Were you serious about what you said in front of everyone? Do you regret it?” she asked.

Brian shot back, “What do you mean? You mean I said I’d be happy to be used by you?”

Chloe shook her head quickly. “Not that. I know you only said that to stand up for me in front of everyone.

Brian’s lips lifted faintly. “I didn’t do that to stand up for you. I meant it. Chloe, if you want to use me, you

can do it any time. I’d be happy because it would mean that I’m useful to you.”

He said those words as if he were uttering the sweetest love confession, but Chloe only felt a sting in her

nose.

How could anyone truly be happy about being used?

The more she came to understand him, the more she realized how twisted his sense of love and self-

worth was. And that twisted nature was the result of the shadows of his childhood.

Chloe said softly, “You shouldn’t be happy about that! Brian, no matter what, real feelings should never be

about usefulness. I like you regardless of what you can do for me. Liking someone should never be

measured by their usefulness.”

Brian’s grip on the steering wheel tightened. “But ever since I was young, everyone’s told me that I have to

be useful.”

It was because he was useless that he’d failed to make Emily stay and she’d taken her own life. After that,

Liam had hated him all the more.

Later, it had only been because of his usefulness that Martin had taken him in, grooming him to inherit the

Steele family’s vast fortune.

In Brian’s world, things were always divided into “useful” and “useless“. Yet now, Chloe was telling him

that she would love him even if he was useless.

Chloe said gently, “Yes, it’s good to be useful, but you should never measure love that way. If being used is the only reason you’re loved, then what happens if you stop being useful one day? Won’t that love be thrown away like garbage? How long could a love like that last?”

Brian’s face was drained of color as his hands trembled almost imperceptibly on the wheel.

So, if he was no longer of any value to her, would she abandon him too?

Chapter 136 You’re the Only One Like

No, never.

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