Time-Limited Love: A Contract Expired, Not Renewed novel Chapter 108

So, this is how she acted when she was alone with Zinnia.

All those times she’d made up excuses to pull him away from Zinnia weren’t enough—this was how she really behaved behind closed doors?

No wonder... No wonder Zinnia suddenly brought up divorce.

No wonder Zinnia had become so distant with him.

Landon forced himself to keep watching the video.

Near the end, the whole group was hurling accusations at Noelle, calling her shameless and pressuring her to break up the marriage.

And there was Zinnia, standing to the side, looking completely detached, as if she was just there for the show.

Even through the screen, Landon could tell Zinnia had no intention of helping Noelle out of her predicament.

From an outsider’s perspective, it almost looked like Zinnia was deliberately egging the others on to humiliate Noelle.

As Landon watched, realization suddenly dawned on him.

When it hit, he actually let out a laugh—sharp, bitter.

“Zinnia, so this is what you wanted all along?”

At first, he hadn’t understood why Zinnia would hand him this so-called ‘evidence of her wrongdoing’ so willingly.

But by the end of the video, he got it.

She believed that showing him Noelle’s isolation, and her own indifference, would inevitably make him furious.

That he’d be the one to initiate the divorce.

Just like how she’d so quickly admitted over the phone that Noelle was her lover—her intentions had always been the same.

She wanted to provoke him, to goad him into being the one to ask for a divorce.

He shook his head, a cold smile tugging at his lips. “Well done, Zinnia. Really well done.”

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The more Noelle thought about it, the more anxious she felt.

“Noelle, you can’t keep bothering Landon like this,” Xander said gently. “He’s busy with work. If you keep pestering him, he’s bound to get fed up eventually.”

“What do you know?” Noelle suddenly snapped at him, her voice sharp.

“Xander, haven’t you always known how much I’ve loved Landon? I’ve spent my whole life trying to be the woman he’d marry, and then, when I was out of the country, he just went and married Zinnia. How am I supposed to accept that?”

Her eyes filled with bitterness and frustration.

“I’m not giving up. Landon will be mine—no one else’s.”

Xander looked at the wild determination in his sister’s eyes, torn between worry and resignation.

“Noelle, you need to stop deluding yourself. Landon sees you as a little sister, nothing more. He doesn’t love you—not the way you hope.”

When a man loves a woman, you can see it in his eyes.