Never Late, Never Away

Chapter 3318 Sour Faces

The alarms inside Martin’s head went into overdrive when it dawned upon him what a dreadful mistake it was for him to sign on this contract.

Megan picked up on that and smirked. She then glared at Jake. “So what? It’s not like you care about it. First, you tested me, and now you put me under supervision? Why do you insist that there must be something going on between me and Jonas?”

Her aggressive words stabbed at Jake’s heart like a knife.

He was perplexed as to why he felt so terrible. What he had taken for granted as an expression of anger before now seemed more like a feeling of care. What he felt was a sense of emptiness and self-pity after being wantonly crushed.

Jake pursed his lips. This was neither the time nor place where he wanted to discuss these things. He averted her gaze and relinquished his grip on her.

“There’s nothing to explain. To think you’re this upset even though we’re just traveling together for work spoke to how much you must have hated me.”

Jake’s cold gaze swept over Megan before he brushed past her shoulder. Then, he made a beeline for the door and slammed it on the way out.

entire lounge abruptly fell into silence. Martin could only

really a

proper dating show now reduced to a

I’ll come back in when it’s time to

the air inside the lounge ultimately proved too suffocating for his liking, so he got

was restless amidst the stagnated atmosphere. She twice glanced over at Jonas in the distance whose eyes were veiled beneath

anything you would like

His eyes were quietly wistful,

important. Let’s just prepare ourselves for the

neither the vitriol she showed Jake nor the consolation she provided from before. Only a stark staidness was

more she behaved this way, the more it revealed how much this bothered

“Alright. I’ll do that.”

for him to persist further. Regardless of whether she was angry or sad,

left her in a disarray inside, so she simply went for the door and made