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

imagine what he looked like. She said nothing,

the cigarette smoke was scorching her skin, burning her. She felt

a boy, only for her crush to find out about her

and reject

saying, “Sorry,

Isabella was tough, she still couldn’t easily resolve this

she had said those things on purpose as a ploy, it

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an excuse. No one would believe

Seth.

her hand and wiped her face while Seth wasn’t looking. She

have nothing

talk to herself, Isabella slowly got

mirror and met her

said, “Any woman would kill to be

something stirring in his

witnessed in

explicitly stated Isabella wanted to be Mrs. Shaffer, not

the president’s wife.

for five years and tended

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

hard for me not to

and praised Seth to stroke

the driver’s seat. Some light passed

tried to guess what

his head. She could only rely on her intuition. “I

hard to get. Sometimes my mind snaps out of

hair, speaking calmly. “You’re not going to marry me

you

but the last part was true. Maybe

invested in it, so it sounded genuine. Seth was already

little schemes, and after she said the last part of that

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