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… “

one else to take care of her. And

doubted that falling ill would change Hilary so drastically. The illness was not

mother. If no one took care of her, Clarissa would

you’re discharged. Let me go book a room

sorry for troubling you at a

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

she headed straight back to the hospital and spoke with the attending doctor. She found out that Hilary had an ovarian cyst,

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

Jane called her to talk about the publishing of her new book

hot commodities now and everyone was trying to get their hands on the copyright. Even her latest attempt at a new setting, albeit short, showed potential and

something Clarissa would have never ever

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

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 buy them drinks at a club. Hence,

was about to be cut short, however, as something

suddenly appeared from the fork of the road at a dangerous speed. Tessa, being a new driver, panicked, even forgetting to step on the brake as she just screamed. In the end,

as the crash occurred. Nevertheless, Tessa had already slowed down prior to the crash, so no

just happened, so she stopped her car behind them. Everyone else

car in front of

Jane gave her a

stopped, a long line of luxurious

new car. It’s not even been a day yet. Tsk tsk… I think someone’s gonna

they’re the ones that should kill themselves before Luke does anything. Hahaha…

playboys with the women beside

in a pair of jeans and a simple t-shirt, nothing too over the top. If he was not driving a sports car that symbolized his wealth, no one would be able to tell that

for it and it was his favorite

moment, it was like the others had said.

driving this? Are you people trying to get yourselves killed? Goddamnit…

came flying out in an extremely loud

and not get involved in

ago. The company had not even gotten her the basic

could already envision the darkness that was about to loom over her future. There’s no

Tessa

hand, was just as scared. But even though she did not know how to drive, she knew that Tessa

panicking,

buildings and landmarks. So, she gave all that information to the police. Luke’s cursing had stopped by then as everyone on his side was listening to Clarissa’s beautiful voice, stunned by the hidden