Left for Dead Came Back for Everything novel Chapter 190

The absolute second Zander's SUV vanished around the corner, the privacy shade in the back of the Buick was viciously ripped down.

Yvonne's fury exploded into an inferno.

Her eyes remained locked with manic intensity on the empty street where Zander had disappeared.

She grabbed her pristine white rose bouquet—the one Eleanor had specially ordered that morning for the marriage registry photos—and violently smashed it against the back of the driver's seat.

Smack.

Crushed petals exploded everywhere.

"Miss Yvonne, please, calm down!" the nanny panicked, twisting around from the passenger seat and reaching out with frantic, trembling hands to restrain her.

Yvonne slapped her hands away and buried her face in her palms.

"Don't touch me!"

Tears flooded out from between her fingers, mixing with foundation and mascara to run in muddy, grayish streaks down the back of her pale hands.

Eleanor practically sprinted from the courthouse doors, tearing open the back door of the minivan.

"Yvonne."

"Stop crying, Mom is right here. When have I ever let you suffer?"

Yvonne lifted her face.

It was a horrifying distortion of the sweet, angelic smile she had flashed Zander through the glass just minutes ago. Her makeup was ruined, the mascara bleeding in ugly gray tracks down her cheeks.

Yet her eyes—even drowning in tears, those eyes expertly locked onto the exact emotion painted on Eleanor's face.

Heartbreak.

Perfect. That was all she needed.

Yvonne let her voice quiver with master-class precision: "Mom... is he abandoning me...?"

"Don't be ridiculous," Eleanor snapped firmly, sliding into the backseat and throwing an arm around Yvonne's shoulders.

"Don't listen to a word he says. He's just throwing a tantrum. Give him two days and he'll come crawling back. I miscalculated today—it was bad luck to force the marriage right outside the divorce office—"

"It's not that, Mom," Yvonne sniffled, dropping her voice to a pathetic, fragile whisper. "He never even loved me..."

Her hands defensively cupped her lower abdomen.

"This baby inside me... he doesn't give a damn about it..."

Eleanor's eyes instantly shot to Yvonne's hands.

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