Marriage Beyond Redemption

Chapter 31

Chapter 31 Can You Feel Her Pain?

Nolan didn’t say a word. He stood there with a sullen face, glaring at

Peyton.

His Adam’s apple moved. “I wish it had nothing to do with you. That day, you stayed in the cemetery for three hours. Tell me what you were doing there.”

Peyton just felt it was very funny. “I told you I was visiting Grandma’s grave. I have no one to talk to. Was it wrong for me to say something before her grave? That is a tombstone. How could I break it? Even if you want to frame me, show me the evidence.”

“Take a good look. What’s this?”

Nolan took out some photos of Peyton with a hammer in her hand. Peyton froze.

“An old man working in the cemetery dropped his tool, so I picked it up for him.”

Peyton didn’t know how someone had taken such a picture. She

anxiously explained, “I just said a few words at Paula’s grave. It was fine when I left. Nolan, believe me. Why would I do that? What good would that do me?”

Seeing Peyton argue in a panic, Nolan only felt she was ridiculous. He lifted her chin with his slender fingers and pressed his fingertips against her lips. “Why are you lying with such a pretty mouth? Lucian has already admitted that he told you about Paula’s grave and that you hired a private detective.”

Knowing that nothing could be hidden from Nolan, Peyton admitted

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though I knew that Leilani was Paula, I went to Grandma’s grave after just placing a bouquet in front of Paula’s grave, not to mention that I… I am sick. I didn’t have the strength to smash the scene like this!”

“Do you think I’ll believe that? Paula lived as Leilani until her death. She had no enemies at all except for your family. Tell me who else would have destroyed her gravestone two years after she died.”

“So you think I did that?”

“Yes, you resented the fact that I was cold to you for the past two years. You blamed me for not saving the baby and making your family go bankrupt. You hated me, and you hated Paula even more, who made your family like this. After learning of her identity, you vented your anger on her grave.”

Peyton shook her head repeatedly. “No…” Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

Nolan stepped closer and continued, “You clearly made up your mind. to divorce me, but suddenly, you wanted to spend another month with me. What are you plotting? You want to take revenge for Kason, don’t you?”

Peyton’s tears rolled down. She felt that at this moment, she was unable to defend herself. She kept shaking her head. “No, I never thought that way.”

However, Nolan wouldn’t listen to any of her explanations. He pinched Peyton’s jaw hard, his eyes flashing with disappointment.

“Peyton, you know how much I wish this had nothing to do with you. I’ve had people looking for evidence all day, trying to prove that you’re innocent. All I’ve found is this. Today you made a trip to the psychiatric hospital, and then Caitlyn killed herself. What did you say

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to her! You think you can wake Kason up by getting back at others?”

He blamed it all on Peyton, who was at a loss for words.

Paula was Nolan’s taboo, and ruing Paula’s grave was a great insult to her and the Dalton family.

Nolan’s fingers slid down and finally landed on Peyton’s slender neck. He gradually tightened his grip.

“Peyton, you’re being pampered like a princess. Do you have any idea how miserable Paula was? I have been to the village where she once lived. It is desolate and barren. Most people there starve. She was abducted and sold there. Since childhood, she had been locked in the woodshed. She used to be the little princess of the Dalton family, but she was enslaved there. She suffered for so many years and managed to come to Aelford City. Obviously, I would have found her if she had held on a little longer.”

Peyton couldn’t say anything because of his grip around her neck. Suffocating, she pushed Nolan with her hands. She kept crying, trying to drag him back to his senses.

Nolan, however, was lost in sad memories. “She was humiliated by Kason, that brute. She was strangled and stuffed into a box. How desperate she was! See, just like you are now. Can you just slightly feel her pain?”

“Let… go!” Peyton struggled, but to no avail.

Nolan’s eyes were scarlet as if he were a beast that had lost his mind.

Peyton was out of breath. She knew she would be killed by him if it continued like this. She had to keep struggling.

“Peyton, I was clearly going to let you go. You asked for this.”

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The look on Nolan’s face was getting more and more paranoid. His eyes looked like they had lost focus. He said slowly, “Peytic, why don’t we die together to accompany Paula? She must be scared alone there. Will it be less painful if we die?”

Hearing that, Peyton thought Nolan was completely crazy. While she was struggling, Nolan touched her wound that had been stitched up last night. The wound was ripped open, and blood dyed her white silk. nightgown red.

The red stains calmed Nolan down. He released Peyton. Her body went limp. As Nolan tried to look at her wound, Peyton hastily backed up, staring at him with a wary look on her face.

Nolan stiffened and withdrew his hands, regaining his composure. He realized he had almost killed Peyton.

“Your arm…” he said in a hoarse voice.

Peyton, however, had gotten up from the floor, grabbed her down jacket from the couch, and left the Dalton’s mansion despite the cold wind.

The moment her neck was grasped by him, she really thought she was going to die. Only endless fear remained after she escaped death. She had never been so close to death. It turned out that she wasn’t as calm as she had expected.

She only wanted to flee!

Nolan looked down at his hands in a daze, thinking, “How could I do such a thing to Peyton?” The raging wind blowing in through the door brought him back to his senses for the time being.

Thinking of Peyton’s back as she left in a panic and the snow outside, Nolan hurriedly drove after her.

Hearing the sound of a car coming from behind, Peyton quickly hid behind a tree. She watched Nolan leave until she was out of danger. She was still trembling with fear.

Shivering, she took out her cell phone and hesitantly dialed Kadence’s number. Her voice came. “Do you miss me?”

Peyton suppressed her sobs and swallowed. “Kadence, can you come pick me up?”