The Divorce That Brought Us Back novel Chapter 356

Maloney had even helped Diana keep Nora in the dark.

Yet Nora simply said, "Those who achieve great things don't sweat the small stuff."

*Bullshit.*

It wasn't that Cassidy didn't understand the reality of it.

She knew exactly how much blood, sweat, and tears it took to drag a powerful political figure down from their pedestal.

But it was all too hypocritical.

Under every streetlamp, there is light and there is shadow. That was an eternal truth.

But generation after generation, in the endless battles between the elite, the ones who always bled were the people at the bottom.

Cassidy couldn't fathom how Nora could just forgive Maloney for hiding everything from her.

Nora's response had been simple: "He has his things to do, and I have mine. I want to spend my energy focusing on my own life."

At first glance, it almost sounded like a breakup speech.

And yet, Nora and Maloney's bond only grew deeper.

Was she intentionally running away from her past?

Probably.

With her personality, whenever she encountered an emotional roadblock she couldn't solve, her default response was to retreat.

Suddenly, Cassidy desperately wanted to master Nora's art of escapism.

Life was too bitter, too exhausting, too helpless. Too many problems were crashing down on her, and too many people were standing in her way. She had no energy left to solve them all. She just wanted to sleep.

She wanted to be like Nora—to let go of the entire past in the span of a single breath and focus purely on what she wanted right now.

She wanted a divorce. She refused to share a marriage certificate with human garbage. She didn't want to slave away for The Quincy Corporation anymore. She already had the resources and ability to start her own business.

She refused to let pregnancy and motherhood derail her entire life plan.

She wanted to shut her ears and completely ignore what anyone else had to say. Even if they called her selfish, she wouldn't care.

But she couldn't do it.

Cassidy cared so much it felt like she was dying.

Especially after having Parker point a finger in her face and scream at her.

She could have easily shut down every single one of his arguments, but she hadn't fired back immediately.

She had lost an argument.

It felt worse than death.

If Nora hadn't called her to talk her down, Cassidy felt like she might have literally suffocated.

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