Chapter 169

How could a proud man like him ever allow it?

“So, you agreed to see me just so you could tell me that you would never do what I ask no matter how I beg you?”

Each word came out of her mouth with great difficulty, but she asked the question anyway.

There was a faint smile on his lips. He raised his hand and gently brushed a stray strand of hair on her face behind her ear with his long fingers.

“Back then, you told me that you wouldn’t stay with me, that you didn’t need me to change your fate, that you would never regret it…”

His moves were graceful, and his voice was soft and gentle. He bent over and leaned his lips closer to her ear, and she could feel his breath brushing against it, his breath enveloping her ear and neck.

In contrast, her whole body was frozen stiff. She felt as if a heavy boulder was pressing down against her chest, making it almost impossible for her to breathe.

“I wanted to see you so you’d understand how comically wrong you were when you said you

regret it.”

looked intently

felt like her whole body was immersed in

wouldn1

was right. She was comically

even remember how she left

planned to agree to her request from the start, and

this

so preoccupied that she was almost absent–minded at work. Her relatives had called her again, telling her that her grandmother had gotten worse now. Although she had woken up, she

and it was advancing very quickly too. For others, it might take a few years for the disease to advance, but for her grandmother, it had only taken a short while for her condition to get this

when she heard all this. It felt like her world only got worse

  1. on.

urged. “This is the only thing that can help her, so how much longer do you

relative stopped short of calling

for at that moment, there was truly nothing more that she

do!

she dragged her exhausted body to go home, but Peter Wall suddenly blocked her way and said, “Serenity, let me… Let me take you home. I’ve got a car,

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