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

nothing, but she

scorching her skin, burning her.

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

reject

saying, “Sorry, we’re not a good

still couldn’t easily

said those

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too much like an excuse. No one would

Seth.

hand and wiped her face while Seth wasn’t

herself to calm down. You have nothing to be afraid of.

herself, Isabella slowly got up

into the rear-view mirror

said, “Any woman would kill to be the

president’s wife… Seth frowned, something stirring in

in the afternoon and

to be Mrs. Shaffer,

the president’s wife.

and tended to your needs

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

me not to fall for you.” Isabella tried to

Seth to stroke his

around in the driver’s seat.

Isabella tried to guess what he was thinking,

head. She could only rely on

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

“You’re not going to marry

you holding me

else was fake, but the last part was true. Maybe she

it, so it sounded genuine.

she said the last

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