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

what he looked like. She said nothing, but she felt as if

skin, burning

a boy, only

and reject

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

still couldn’t easily resolve this awkward

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

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like an excuse. No one would believe that, let alone

Seth.

her

herself to calm down. You have nothing to

Isabella slowly got up from her

the rear-view mirror and met her gaze.

would kill to be the

Seth frowned, something stirring in his

scene he had witnessed in the

Isabella wanted to be Mrs. Shaffer, not

the president’s wife.

for five years and tended to your needs every day.

never left you.

not to fall

and praised Seth to stroke his ego.

around in the driver’s seat. Some light

tried to guess what he

of his head. She could only rely on

playing hard to get. Sometimes my mind snaps out of it, you

hair, speaking calmly. “You’re

why are you holding me back?”

but the last part was

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

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

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