A Journey from Bitterness to Truth

Chapter 163

Matilda let out a laugh, her eyes sparkling with humor. “Wouldn’t it be great if you were my boyfriend?”

“I suppose I’d reluctantly agree to that,” Chloe quipped, flicking her crimson lip gloss. “Matilda’s my girl. Anyone who tries to mess with her has to deal with me!”

“Cut the crap, you’re in a rush, aren’t you? Get going,” Matilda nudged Chloe playfully. “We’ll come back next week, and be careful on your way.”

With a confident stride in her heels, Chloe made her exit, and just like that, the fun seemed to drain from the room. Criss and Matilda didn’t linger much longer over their meal before getting up to pay, only to find out someone had already covered their tab.

Matilda’s gaze immediately found Adrian, who was squeezing a credit card in his hand as he walked away from the front desk.

A frown creased her brow. She had wanted to pretend she hadn’t seen him, but Adrian turned back toward the front desk and started walking directly toward her with an unmistakable

presence.

Matilda instinctively stepped back, standing close to Criss for support.

“Finished eating?” Adrian’s voice, laced with an unspoken challenge, demanded attention.

“Yep” and tried

some kind of monster, and I’m certainly not Yvan. How scared

poking at her sore spots

turned to face Adrian. “Mr. Simpson, you and I aren’t exactly friends, so there’s no reason to stay. What’s

had become quite

by your place.

go of everything. When a person has nothing left to

seen

to have her sincerity met with his suspicion, turning all her efforts into

now Mason saw her as just another woman trying to

about how Mason saw her. She had been hurt in the past.

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seemed to drift away, but she had come to understand that true friends never part, and those who leave are merely passing through

filled with the earnestness of the past: she simply gave him a cool “Hello, Mr. Farrell” and

called out to her simultaneously.