Chapter 1135

Watching her struggle with a mix of helplessness and heartache, Thalassa couldn’t help but ask, “If you still care so much, why pretend it doesn’t bother you?”

“What good does it do to care? It just gives him more power to hurt me more,” Hertha replied with a grim face. She stared at the retreating figure of Alaric in the distance, murmuring to herself.

Thalassa heard her and understood all too well.

Caring for a man who didn’t love you back only made you fall deeper and allow him hurt you, intentionally or not. And you’re left powerless, with nothing to do but guard your own heart.

Hertha was a testament to that, and Thalassa was the same.

Thalassa didn’t try to stop her from drinking anymore. Instead, she signaled the bartender and ordered another cocktail and a juice.

wine,” Thalassa said, raising her glass of juice in a toast.

kisses us with pain, and to

her juice,

as if she’d seen a ghost. She nudged Thalassa’s wrist and pointed ahead, saying, “Look, he’s showing

woman. His one arm wrapped around her slim waist, and the other playfully lifted her chin. He wore a roguish smile on his

seductively, responded to Alaric’s advances with a coy smile, and their eyes were filled with unspoken desire for each other.

reached to cover

obvious truth? I’m not your

see to know what Alaric was going to

Thalassa silently took her hand away. She was feeling a mixture of melancholy and helplessness. She couldn’t even change her own situation, let alone help Hertha change hers.

yet she stared openly, with a cold, self-mocking laughter bubbling up inside her.

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