If I really wanted money, I would have asked for it from him the first time we slept together. But I didn’t.

All I wanted was to have a proper discussion with him, not another argument. He was a domineering man, but he wasn’t coldhearted.

 

Michael scanned me from head to toe curiously. He didn’t have to say a single word for me to guess what he was thinking and what he was about to do.

“I’d advise you to give up on the idea of becoming my girlfriend. I can give you anything except that. I would never marry a nobody like you; know your place, Anna!”

If I’m just a nobody, then why are you, a huge CEO, so insistent on clinging to me?

 

You’re surrounded by so many great, intelligent women. You could easily get any one of them to fall for you. So, why me?

“I never wanted to become your girlfriend. Relax. I know where I stand.”

A man like him was most likely going to marry someone hailing from a powerful family background and beloved by all those around her.

 

There was no way that a woman like me would ever become his wife, and the mere idea sent chills up my spine.

force you. You have time to

 

let out an internal sigh of relief. I knew Michael would be

long time ago to end things with him. I was just afraid that if I let our relationship go on this way, I would not

admiring women. On the other hand, I was just an ordinary girl. Even

going to let myself fall any further. I’m not going to let myself get hurt

passed so that I wouldn’t aggravate him in his

night. Yet to my surprise, he left the table and picked up his coat as soon

in an empty house, and I hated

took a shower and lay down on my bed, staring blankly at the ceiling. My mind was consumed

I would never be able to love another man after Justin, but I

of him every time I tried to go to sleep, I chalked it up to having interacted with him too much during the day. It took

was scared to let myself get heartbroken once more. So, I curled in on myself like a porcupine and protected myself in the only way I knew how to – by

snapped me awake from my daze. I glanced at the screen, cheering up when I saw that

between her and John again. There were actually several times where my finger nearly pressed the “dial” button,

call. “Nat! You finally

have sounded excited even through the phone. I mean, what could I say; Natalie calling was

heard Natalie sobbing on the other

you crying, Natalie? What’s

heart lurched to the bottom of my stomach. Natalie was a bright, happy-go-lucky

it that asshole, John?

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