You'll Fall For Me, Today or tomorrow

Matthew showed no reaction to what Ellie just said and just sat down.

“Your friend Clarissa?”

“Yes. What about it?”

“She’s not coming back to D City anymore?” He said after a moment of pondering.

“Uncle Matt, what are you trying to say here? Don’t change the subject. Clarissa is not involved in our problem. Let me just ask you, is Shermaine really going to be my aunt?”

Matthew gave Ellie a profound look. “What if she is?”

“Uncle Matt, you… “

Right then, Ellie thought about what Clarissa just said. I really can’t do anything about it.

Hence, she just snorted and gave up. “Clare was right. Being with Shermaine is your choice, I can’t interfere with that. Maybe she’s evil to me but you may have seen something in her. I can give you my blessing, but don’t ask me to like her. This is the limit of how much I can tolerate this.”

“Clarissa said that?”

“Huh? Yes?”

Ellie did not know what was going on. Why is he constantly shifting the conversation to Clare?

Immediately after, Matthew stood up and left. His eyes were dark and cold.

It all felt so ridiculous to Ellie, but she decided to take Clarissa’s advice and not be angry. Be like Clare. Have an open mind and stay calm.

One month had gone by.

Clarissa’s hometown was cooling as summer had come to an end. But, when she set foot in D city, she could feel heat waves plunging at her. The city felt like a big hot sauna and it was not very comfortable.

After leaving the airport, Clarissa immediately rushed to the hospital. At the hospital, she found Hilary, whose face was pale as snow under the light.

When Hilary saw Clarissa, her tears started streaking down her face, a sight that Clarissa was not used to seeing.

Hilary held Clarissa’s fingers tightly in her hand as she sought forgiveness from her.

“Clary, I know I made a mistake. Look at me, I’m not even living well. When I fell sick, it became clear to me that no one actually cares about me. The maids don’t give a damn, Zach is always busy, not to mention Yvonne. She never accepted me in the first place. I only have you now… “

came to a realization. She only thinks about me when she has no one else to take care of her. And

doubted that falling ill would change Hilary so drastically. The illness

mother. If no one took care of her, Clarissa would have to step in, regardless of how

take care of you until you’re discharged. Let me go book a room at

really sorry for troubling

matter what Hilary says, Clarissa remained skeptical. More than ten years of abandonment was not something a few

attending doctor. She found out that Hilary had an ovarian cyst, so surgery was required. But, it was just a small issue that

the hospital every day. Sometimes she would listen to Hilary nag at her, but most of the time, they did not talk. Clarissa would just sit there with her laptop and typed for an

the publishing of

trying to get their hands on the copyright. Even her latest attempt at a new setting, albeit short, showed potential and caught the eyes of some people that wanted to get in while it

Clarissa would have

hospital and went to a restaurant. Besides Jane, there were some other editors from the company present too. Even though they usually communicated via the internet, meeting them in person posed no problem. All of them quickly mingled with each other and had some fun, improving

the meal, the gang split into two cars. Jane and another young editor called Tessa were in charge of driving. Because of how good Clarissa’s books were selling, Jane had proposed to

fun was about to be cut short, however, as something

a dangerous speed. Tessa, being a

the back, so her body got thrown forward and slammed into the seat as the crash occurred. Nevertheless, Tessa had

was stunned by what just happened, so she stopped her car

car in front of them, they all had

Jane. Jane gave her a

long line of luxurious cars soon came stopping one after

not even been a day yet.

Look at those idiots. I think they’re the ones that should

the car. They looked like a bunch of rich playboys with the women beside them, everyone taking a shot at Clarissa

nothing too over the top. If he was

long ago. Luke waited a long time for it

as of that moment, it was like the

the f***! Who was driving this? Are you people trying to

of foul mouths and vulgarity came flying out

backed away, wanting to hide and not get involved in the situation. Tessa drew the worst end of the

was just a small editor that joined the company not long ago. The company had not even gotten her the basic insurances yet, and the car she was driving was one of the colleagues’. She was only driving because her

she could already envision the darkness that was about to loom over her

in mind, Tessa

even though she did not know how to drive, she knew that Tessa might not fully be

enjoying what was going on, and while all the other colleagues were panicking, Clarissa took out her phone and called the

all that information to the police. Luke’s cursing had stopped by then as everyone on his side was