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… “

me when she has no one else to take care of her.

falling ill would change Hilary so drastically. The illness was not even serious, to

Hilary was her birth mother. If no one took care of her, Clarissa would have to step in, regardless of how much she did

care of you until you’re discharged. Let me go book a room at a hotel nearby. I’ll come

really sorry for troubling you at

ten years of abandonment was not something a few words could erase, or

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

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

to talk about the publishing of her new book and some issues

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 was still

was something Clarissa would have

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

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, everyone cheered as they headed

to be cut short,

the fork of the road at a dangerous speed. Tessa, being a new driver, panicked, even forgetting to step

was sitting at the back, so her body got thrown forward and slammed into the seat as the crash occurred. Nevertheless, Tessa had already slowed down prior to the crash, so no one suffered any serious

stunned by what just happened, so she stopped her car

front of

her a comforting look as the people in the sports car

line of luxurious cars soon came stopping one after another

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

ones that should kill themselves before Luke does anything.

lot of people stood by the car. They looked like a bunch of rich playboys with the women beside them, everyone taking a shot

nothing too over the top. If

not long ago. Luke waited a long time for it and it was

that moment, it was like the others

you people trying to get yourselves killed? Goddamnit…

foul mouths and vulgarity came flying out in an extremely

away, wanting to hide and not get involved in the situation. Tessa drew the worst end of the straw and she was scared to tears by Luke’s

the company not long ago. The company had not even gotten her the basic insurances yet, and

could already envision the darkness that was about to loom over her future. There’s no way I could afford this. I’m going

that in mind, Tessa

as scared. But even though she did not know how to drive, she knew that Tessa might not fully be at fault for

while all the other colleagues were panicking, Clarissa took out her phone

big 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