Chapter 150

Silence enveloped the car, and the atmosphere grew heavy. Isabella

moistened her lips. Her voice emerged, husky from her parched throat. “No.”

Seth anticipated her response. He warmed up slightly, and he brushed his

fingers across the steering wheel. “I observed your performance throughout

the entire time you were in the conference room.”

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Isabella felt a tremor in her soul. She tried to recall everything she had said

that afternoon. All the things she had said just to spite Angelina now became

her own punishment, biting her in the rear.

“I had no idea you were so… ambitious,” Seth continued mercilessly.

Isabella closed her eyes and opened her mouth, but she couldn’t utter a

word. She didn’t even need to watch the surveillance footage to know that

she had put on a perfect act for Angelina, and everything she had said was

ambitious.

Seth pulled over by the roadside and listed out all of Isabella’s actions,

tormenting her. “Your resignation and refusal to continue your contract were

just a ploy to gain my attention?” He rolled down the window and leisurely

rested his hand on the edge. With his other hand, he opened the glovebox

and retrieved a packet of cigarettes.

Isabella remained lying on the seat. She could hear Seth smoking, and she

looked like. She said nothing, but she felt as if the heat

smoke was scorching her skin, burning her.

who had a crush on a boy, only for her crush to find out about

reject her.

as if he was saying, “Sorry, we’re not

was tough, she still couldn’t easily

said those things on purpose as

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an excuse. No

Seth.

wiped her face

nothing to be afraid of.

Isabella

the rear-view mirror and met her gaze.

woman would kill to be

frowned, something stirring

witnessed in the

stated Isabella wanted to be

the president’s wife.

and tended

me to and never left you. Even if you were an

it would be hard for me not to fall for you.” Isabella

and praised Seth to stroke his ego.

the driver’s seat. Some

Isabella tried to guess what

the back of his head. She

to get. Sometimes my mind snaps out of it,

calmly. “You’re not going to marry

are you holding me back?”

part was

in it, so it sounded genuine.

and after she said the last part of that sentence,

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