Liana’s expression twisted, her features contorting with barely suppressed emotion.
Cyrus couldn’t help but regret ever caving to his mother’s pressure and marrying her. It was, without a doubt, the biggest mistake of his life.
Liana was unstable—her mind just wasn’t right.
When they first got married, she tried to control every aspect of his life. She demanded he be at her beck and call around the clock, constantly checked up on him, even installed a tracking app on his phone.
Once, when he met a client at a hotel to discuss a business deal, Liana saw his location and stormed over in a jealous rage, beating the client half to death without a word of explanation.
He couldn’t have any women around him—not as friends, not as colleagues, not even as household staff. His secretary, assistant, and all their help at home were men.
It was suffocating. He tried to have a calm conversation with her, to explain that they both needed space. She accused him of not loving her.
Maybe they could have grown to love each other after getting married, but her behavior drove him further and further away.
He’d asked for a divorce—twice. Both times, she threatened to hurt herself if he left.
She’d even sworn that if he ever divorced her, she’d become nothing more than a corpse.
Between her desperate pleas and his mother’s attempts to smooth things over, he found himself right back where he started.
With his mother present, Cyrus couldn’t allow himself to lose his temper. In the end, he relented and agreed to take Liana to see a movie.
“All right,” he said, “Why don’t you come with us, Mother?”
Old Mrs. Harper saw right through him and waved her hand dismissively. “You two go on ahead. The movie theater’s too loud for my heart.”
Liana was nearly giddy with excitement, barely able to contain herself. Her husband, actually agreeing to go out shopping and to a movie with her? That had never happened before.
Did this mean he was finally starting to accept her? It had to.

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