Begging For A Reconciliation

Chapter 340 Not a Misunderstanding

Verily, Leah could not believe her ears. She gaped at Han, who wore a sneer on his face, so livid that her hands trembled.

“Get away from me!”

With her eyes blazing scarlet, she shoved him away. At the stabbing pain from the depths of her heart, tears inexorably shimmered in her eyes.

Am I really that shameless in his eyes?

In the next heartbeat, she sprinted out of the hotel.

Perhaps the despair and disappointment in her eyes earlier were too intense, for Han halted in his steps after chasing after her for a while, his gaze dim.

The mere thought of Leah’s expression just now resulted in a faint sense of panic within him.

Had I misunderstood things? But it was only because I instantly lost all reason at the sight of her disheveled state that I uttered all those words.

It was late at night, and it had started drizzling. Frigid gusts of wind carrying chilly raindrops hit Leah incessantly.

At long last, she snapped. Tears escaped the corners of her eyes.

“I’m sorry, Ms. White. Please forgive me for my actions earlier.” Donald walked over to her with an umbrella. Guilt was written all over his face, his lascivious expression a while ago all but gone.

At the sight of Leah’s anguish, sheer regret haunted him. He hastily apologized, “I’m truly sorry. If I’d known you were the person who saved me back then, I would never have made a move on you. I’ve already ordered my subordinate to send Miss Coleman back to the studio. Please forgive my blunder tonight.”

Following the man’s attitude, Leah’s lips curved into a sneer. “I don’t remember ever saving you.”

The multiple twists of events that night tripped her up, and she could not quite keep up with the changes.

Initially, she came to the hotel with Serena to apologize to Donald and salvage the studio’s first commission, but she ended up almost violated by the latter.

Both women were drunk and lost the ability to fight back earlier, so Leah was just about to tell the person waiting downstairs to call the police when Donald suddenly did a one-eighty after glimpsing the faint scar on her leg. He apologized to her instead.

Not only did he do that, but he even had his subordinate send Serena back and went downstairs to wait for her while she made herself presentable.

Truly, she had no recollection of saving him.

Donald flashed her a sincere smile, his eyes brimming with gratefulness. “It’s no surprise that you don’t remember me. Two years ago, you merely walked by and saved me in passing. It was winter then. My family went bankrupt, and I ended up on the streets abroad. I was close to starving and freezing to death when you walked past. Finding me pitiful, you bought me a bowl of steaming hot pasta and gave me your scarf. Then, you contacted the hospital for me. The police later gave me your purse. It was thanks to you that I managed to survive.”

After saying that, he took out a small leather purse from his pocket.

Leah stared at the purse in his hands, profound shock drowning out the sorrow and bitterness within her. “It was you?”

Indeed, she had visited Melville during winter two years ago. She felt sympathetic toward the many beggars by the roadside at night, so she helped them. Little did she expect Donald to be one of them.

Subsequently, something seemingly occurred to her. She regarded him with a frown. “But how did you recognize me?”

At that, unbidden pride showed on Donald’s face. “Later, after I brought the Harper family to success once more, the first thing I did was to have a painter draw a portrait of you based on what I remembered. Alas, I never found you again. It wasn’t until I came back to the country for business this time that I happened across a news report of you on the internet. I felt that you looked somewhat similar to the person who saved me back then, so I decided to help your newly opened studio out.”

When he reached this point of the conversation, he grew anxious again. His gaze darted all around, and he did not dare look Leah in the eye. “Actually, I’d planned on fulfilling the commission. But then, someone told me you had questionable character and are an ingrate. I hate such people the most, so I started to make things difficult for you. Never had I expected you to be the person who saved me. I’m really sorry.”

He spoke at length, but Leah merely stood frozen to the spot for a long time after listening to him.

Silence reigned. The only sounds that remained were the splatter of raindrops on the umbrella.

A long time passed before Leah heaved a sigh. “I’ll be leaving first.”

There was too much information from Donald, and she needed time to digest everything.

That aside, she had to give herself some breathing room after so many things had happened in the past few days.

Upon hearing that, Donald thoughtfully opened his car door for her at once. “Please allow me to drive you back, Ms. White.”

Initially, Leah wanted to turn him down. Although he claimed that she once saved him, she could not believe him entirely because of his actions earlier that night.

But at the thought that Serena had already been forcibly taken away by his subordinate, she could only get into his car.

If he really has ulterior motives, he’ll definitely send us both to the same place.

To keep someone important to her from being hurt again because of her, she was not at all afraid, even if she knew that she was headed to hell.

When Han and his subordinate returned to the hotel lobby, he happened to see Leah voluntarily getting into Donald’s car. Such shock flooded him that his pupils abruptly constricted.

Ben also witnessed that and was likewise shocked beyond words. “Boss… Ms. White…”