This Time, I Will Get My Divorce, Mr

Chapter 544 Breaking the Ice

“You—”

Asher and his supporters grew so incensed at her words that their faces turned the color of beetroot, but they couldn’t retort against her. She was right; she might be the vice president now, but the fact remained that she was the largest shareholder of the company, and that meant she enjoyed privileges they did not. As unhappy as they were, they had neither the means nor standing to retaliate against her.

At the sight of the scowls on their faces, Sonia smirked and refrained from snorting in contempt. I can’t believe they’re still trying to pick a bone with me at this point. How petty. Stoically, she withdrew her gaze and glanced in the direction of Charles’ seat.

He had his head down, so she couldn’t quite see the look on his face, but she felt how distant he was all the same. She sighed quietly as she settled into her chair and announced, “Alright, let’s start the meeting.”

“Yes, ma’am,” the whole table chorused as everyone opened up the folder in front of them.

The meeting went on for two hours before it came to a conclusion. Asher and his supporters were the first to leave the room, but Sonia stayed unmoving in her seat. She didn’t keep her things or seem like she was about to rise to her feet and walk out of the room any time soon.

Instead, she leaned into her seat and rested her head against the back of her chair, staring at Charles.

Presently, Charles was keeping his things, and when he was done, he stood up to leave.

Seeing this, Sonia quickly called out, “Charles, wait.”

He stopped in his tracks and turned to look at her, his expression devoid of the warmth and humor she was used to seeing. He looked almost impassive as he asked flatly, “What is it?”

Sure enough, he was sticking to his promise and had dropped the term of endearment. In the past, he would have added ‘baby’ to that statement.

Sonia was composed as she rose from her seat and eyed him steadily. “How about you and I have a talk?”

gaze on her indifferent and

who had yet to file out of the conference room; they were all ears, trying to pick

sensing her gaze, they looked down at their shoes guiltily and hurried out the doors. Soon, the large conference room was empty, save

said matter-of-factly, “About how you’re

parted his lips, but he offered no retort because he really

she would never choose him as a romantic partner, but

all it had taken was Toby’s unhappy remark

supposed to

know I should have been more considerate of your feelings instead of springing the conversation up on you like that, but I don’t think I was wrong to do that.

He had been in love with her for more than a decade, and she was the one thing on his mind ever since he learned the ways of the world. He had wanted to confess his feelings for her on countless

out anyway,

like you the same way, and I can’t ever reciprocate your feelings for me. What I’ve done, at best, was to make you give up hope that we might ever stand a chance; think of it as a wake-up call, Charles, because if your feelings for

“No, I won’t—”

him off, pleading for him to see her point. “I don’t know when you started having feelings for me, but I reckon it’s been a long time. That just goes to show that you’re sentimental enough to hold on to the idea of us, and if that were to go on, then you’d fall too deep to save yourself from inevitable heartbreak. I don’t want to

him to stop calling her ‘baby’, and her stance was clear: the both of them would never work out as a couple. She hoped she had put that point out emphatically enough to make him

heard the underlying meaning of her words. As his eyes grew red with anger, he clenched his fists and accused her angrily, “So you’re warning me to drop all those affectionate nicknames for you and to stop being all chummy with you, and you want me to completely stop deluding myself that we might stand

than just a friend, so romance is definitely off the table for us, which is why I need to make things clear. I need you to understand that we aren’t going to work out, so you

she was being harsh, but it was the only way he would snap out of his fantasy

a thousand cuts felt like. Her words stabbed through his heart mercilessly; they took all the air from his lungs and left him bleeding.

what I meant. I just like us better when

just want us to be friends and nothing more, so you’re asking me

confirmed