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

like. She said nothing, but she felt as

her skin, burning her. She

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

and reject

as if he was saying, “Sorry, we’re

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

told him she had said those

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too much like an excuse. No one would

Seth.

her

nothing to be afraid of. You’ve

After that pep talk to herself, Isabella slowly

rear-view mirror and

kill to be the wife of the

Seth frowned, something stirring in his heart.

witnessed in the afternoon

stated Isabella wanted to be

the president’s wife.

your side for five years and tended to your

me to and never left you. Even if you were

it would be hard for me not to

to

driver’s seat. Some light passed through it,

appear relaxed. Isabella tried to guess what he was thinking, but

head. She could only rely on her

Sometimes my mind snaps

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

are you holding me

but the last part was true. Maybe she

it, so it sounded

schemes, and after she said the last part

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