Too Much To Bear My Love

Chapter 233 Friendship Over If You Keep This Up

Carter walked toward Amelia in a surge of emotions. His hands were clasped tightly together as his bottom lip quivered for a long while before he found his voice. “Amelia, is what you said true?”

Carter had never lost his nerve like this before. Amelia’s text imploring him for help had made him happier than the prospect of signing deals worth several hundred million. Though his excitement was so intense that it made his hands shake, he found it slightly overwhelming as he drove all the way over to the Clintons’ residence just to hear to answer from her.

Amelia looked worried. “Carter, what’re you saying? Is what true?”

Out of the corner of his eye, Carter noticed the maid eavesdropping on them as she pretended to look busy. His eyes widened in revelation as he became aware of the suddenness of his question.

With a fake hacking cough, he attempted to reinstate his calm demeanor.

“Amelia, I have several questions for you. Could you come out with me for a little while?” Carter spoke with as much sincerity as he could muster.

Amelia glanced furtively at him as the suspicion within her grew.

“Carter, just say whatever it is you need to say. I’m now a wife and mother. If I were to be alone with you, I’m afraid that Oscar might get the wrong idea. Though there’s nothing going on between us, I do not wish for him to overthink and feel awful about it.” Amelia decided against accepting Carter’s invitation after giving it a thought.

However, Carter construed Amelia’s reluctance as Oscar mistreating his wife to such a degree that she felt guilty for being alone with another man. This had only served to affirm his decision to take her away from the Clintons.

Perhaps the two texts that he had received had clouded Carter’s judgment. He remained stubborn in his belief that the aloofness on Amelia’s face was in fact pity. It was, to his observation, a silent plea to take her far away from the Clintons to spare her the pain and indignity she suffered in their hands.

Carter leveraged the two texts to construct a fantasy for himself, in which he was the protagonist. As the knight in shining armor in the story he penned, he had arrived at the side of the princess after innumerable obstacles to rescue her from the clutches of her imprisoners.

“Don’t be afraid, Amelia,” said Carter as he gazed at her in earnest. “I just want to speak to you alone, just like old times. Is it wrong for an old friend to buy you a cup of coffee to ask for your help?”

Faced with the overwhelming sincerity of Carter, Amelia felt the rejection that had risen to her lips fall away in spite of herself.

As Carter had pointed out, they had not been lovers for five years, opting to remain as friends. Before, she had given birth to Tony in secret with Carter’s help. Since she and Oscar had confessed to one another, it would seem unreasonable for him to force Amelia to cut Carter completely out of her life.

“Fine, but I’m going upstairs to check on Tony for a bit. Wait for me,” Amelia said. After some intense introspection, her attitude toward Carter had become more obliging.

last time I came to see you, Tiffany was the one who had brought

Amelia nodded her assent.

a man to be in there, especially one whose large body brimmed

tingled within him. Kurt return his stare, though his

man?” Carter asked,

Kurt,” Amelia answered. “He is the bodyguard assigned to me by Oscar. It’s a waste of his talent to be devoting all his time to Tony who is still so young.” Turning to the other man, she said, “Kurt, this is an old friend of mine, Carter Scott,

introduction, while Carter’s hostility dissipated.

she gazed down tenderly

Carter had seen him. His skin had become fairer as well as if he had obtained the best traits of both Oscar and Amelia. His nose looked

he get to marry Amelia, but she had also willingly given him a child. It was the

regretted not having been more proactive and capable five years ago. Perhaps things could have gone differently between him and Amelia. If he had resisted the

had loved for so long had ultimately become the

that things were coming to an end. The woman that he loved was not truly in love with Oscar as she had personally sent him a text to ask him to rescue her. They would be able to pick up where they left off five years ago once she was out of the Clintons’ house. They would be

and was willing to live his entire life without a child of his own

a very handsome boy,” Carter exclaimed in earnest praise.

“Anthony.”

Mark Antony. It’s a good name. He is destined to be a capable and outstanding

being showered upon her child. It delighted her despite the possibility of Carter

becomes, I just want him

not a problem,” Kurt replied. “I’m very

lips parted but she understood the futility of further advice. “I’m heading out with Carter for a little while,” she said in an effort to change the topic. “Aside from the people who have my permission, nobody else is to get close to Tony. I hope you would not deign

professionalism. “I will take good care of

Amelia nodded with gratitude.

Carter. “Maggie, I’m heading out with a friend,” she addressed a maid. “If Dad and Mom return before I do, please tell them

at

me that he would be returning to have lunch with you.” Maggie seemed to direct her words at Carter though she met Amelia’s eyes as she

Carter. “Is Oz coming home for lunch? Why didn’t he tell me?” she