The Divorce That Brought Us Back novel Chapter 178

She had let her guard down too much lately.

Nora worried she might have unconsciously crossed a line or done something wrong.

Maloney was usually brutally straightforward.

But this time, he wasn't saying a word.

He was starting to hate her.

Yet, the moment that tiny seed of doubt sprouted in her mind, Maloney mercilessly crushed it under his heel.

He destroyed her panic the second it surfaced.

Half-asleep that morning, Maloney had completely melted her down with his touch.

All while whispering against her lips, telling her to go back to sleep.

How was she supposed to sleep after that?!

Nora despised morning intimacy to begin with.

Especially when they had to come to the wellness center to deal with Nathan's crisis.

And he still wouldn't let her off the hook.

Maloney seemed to have completely returned to normal.

But the more Nora thought about it, the angrier she got.

From the moment she got out of bed until they arrived at the center, she had completely subjected him to the silent treatment.

And she was still fuming.

Nathan's pathetic wails grew louder and more piercing.

Nora pressed her ear flat against the door to block out the noise.

As her ear made contact with the wood, she suddenly caught the faint sound of tapping.

*Tap-tap-tap, tap, tap-tap, tap, tap, tap...*

Someone was tapping on the door with their fingertips.

From the outside.

It was Maloney.

When the three women had cornered Nathan in the breakroom, Maloney had volunteered to stand guard outside.

With him there, no one else would dare approach. It had to be him.

The tapping continued.

By the third repetition, Nora finally realized there was a specific pattern to the beats.

*Short-short, short-long-short-short, long-long-long, short-short-short-long, short, long-short-long-long, long-long-long, short-short-long.*

It was Morse code.

*I L O V E Y O U.*

Nora listened as Maloney tapped the sequence over and over.

He knew she was sitting right on the other side of the door.

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