Every word she spoke brimmed with sorrow and agony. Yet the man standing before her remained impassive, as if all of this was suffering a wife ought to endure. "It is merely a house. Do I need your permission to decide what to do with it? After all this fuss, you just want to seize control and force me to report every little thing to you?" Ethan refused to believe her words. This was nothing more than an excuse to cover up her ambiguous relationship with Adrian! She wanted to play the victim after acting wrongly, attempting to shift all blame onto him. Claire's eyes trembled. She hated how easily his words wounded her. Since things had escalated all the way to divorce, they would have no further ties. She should not hurt any longer. Still, she needed to make her stance clear. "Eth

