Dumped My Cheating Ex. Now I'm Sleeping Next to a Billionaire CEO novel Chapter 395

The door closed with a quiet click.

Dean didn’t look back. He just headed straight for his study, VR headset in hand. The thin walls did nothing to keep out the sounds of the city, or the tension twisting through the apartment.

Evelina hurried after him, catching up just as he reached the door. Without thinking, she wrapped her arms around his waist from behind, holding tight like she could keep him from slipping away.

“Dean, will you marry me?” she blurted out, her voice shaking. “I don’t want to marry Juan. I love you. Let’s go get our marriage license. Please…”

Dean peeled her hands off his waist, one finger at a time, his expression unreadable. He turned to face her, looking down with eyes that were cold and distant.

“Evelina, you already agreed to marry Juan. You should stay loyal to him,” he said, his voice flat. “He and I are friends. When you and I were together, he never got in the way. Now that you’re with him, I won’t interfere either.”

“I really do wish you two happiness.”

Evelina stared up at him, stunned, tears spilling over and streaming down her cheeks. “No… You love me, Dean. I know you do. How can you say something like that?”

Dean pressed his lips into a thin, hard line.

Love? What even was love anymore?

He used to think he loved Evelina—so much that he’d pushed away the woman who meant everything to him, hurting her deeply, all for Evelina. But after Evelina was rescued from Shadow Core—after he found out what she’d been through there—the love he thought he had for her just couldn’t survive the harsh reality of his own hang-ups. It shattered in an instant.

And really, what kind of woman cries about loving him, but lets Juan propose to her? Was that really someone worth loving?

Now, all he cared about was finding out the truth behind his mother’s death. He needed to know if every choice he’d made since his second chance at life had been wrong from the start.

He turned and gripped Evelina’s shoulders, feeling her shake with quiet sobs. He couldn’t even hide the disgust that flickered across his face.

“Eve, I don’t like seeing you cry,” he said quietly. “Let’s do something that actually matters.”

Evelina froze, hope and confusion warring in her eyes.

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