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

She said nothing, but

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

who had a crush on a boy, only for her

reject her.

saying, “Sorry, we’re not

still

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

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like an excuse. No one

Seth.

her face while Seth wasn’t looking. She

You have nothing to be afraid of. You’ve seen

that pep talk to herself, Isabella slowly got up from her seat.

mirror and met her gaze.

woman would kill to be the wife

frowned, something stirring in his

scene he had witnessed in the afternoon and

stated Isabella wanted to be Mrs. Shaffer,

the president’s wife.

five years and tended to your

you told me to and never left you. Even

me not to fall

praised Seth to stroke his

the driver’s seat.

appear relaxed. Isabella tried to guess what he

back of his head. She

my mind

“You’re not going to

why are you holding

part was true.

in it, so it sounded genuine. Seth

the last part of that

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