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

said nothing, but she felt

scorching her skin,

girl who had a crush on a boy, only for her

and reject

saying, “Sorry, we’re not

she still couldn’t easily

If she told him she had said those things on purpose as a ploy,

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much like an excuse. No one

Seth.

wiped her

nothing to be afraid of.

pep talk to herself, Isabella slowly got up from her

mirror

to be the

Seth frowned, something stirring in his heart. He

had witnessed in the afternoon and confirmed

to be Mrs. Shaffer,

the president’s wife.

years and tended to your needs every day. I

told me to and never left

me not to fall for you.” Isabella tried to

to stroke

the driver’s seat. Some light passed

to guess

she saw was the back of his head. She could only rely

to get. Sometimes my mind snaps out of

speaking calmly. “You’re not going to

you

else was fake, but the last part was true.

it, so it sounded genuine. Seth was already

schemes, and after she said the last part of that sentence, he was

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