Leave Me Alone, Mr Shaffer by Diana Tenny

Chapter 150

Silence enveloped the car, and the atmosphere grew heavy. Isabella

moistened her lips. Her voice emerged, husky from her parched throat. “No.”

Seth anticipated her response. He warmed up slightly, and he brushed his

fingers across the steering wheel. “I observed your performance throughout

the entire time you were in the conference room.”

1/5

Isabella felt a tremor in her soul. She tried to recall everything she had said

that afternoon. All the things she had said just to spite Angelina now became

her own punishment, biting her in the rear.

“I had no idea you were so… ambitious,” Seth continued mercilessly.

Isabella closed her eyes and opened her mouth, but she couldn’t utter a

word. She didn’t even need to watch the surveillance footage to know that

she had put on a perfect act for Angelina, and everything she had said was

ambitious.

Seth pulled over by the roadside and listed out all of Isabella’s actions,

tormenting her. “Your resignation and refusal to continue your contract were

just a ploy to gain my attention?” He rolled down the window and leisurely

rested his hand on the edge. With his other hand, he opened the glovebox

and retrieved a packet of cigarettes.

Isabella remained lying on the seat. She could hear Seth smoking, and she

what he looked like. She said nothing, but she

her skin, burning her. She felt like a

crush on a boy, only

reject

saying,

Isabella was tough, she still couldn’t easily resolve

told him she had said those things on purpose as a ploy, it

5 3 8

sound too much like an excuse. No

Seth.

wiped her face while

calm down. You have nothing to be afraid of. You’ve seen

Isabella slowly got up

into the rear-view mirror and met her gaze.

would kill to be the wife of the company president.”

something stirring in his

the scene he had witnessed in the

explicitly stated Isabella wanted to be Mrs. Shaffer,

the president’s wife.

years and tended to your needs every day. I

never left you. Even if you

to fall for you.” Isabella tried to be

Seth to stroke his ego.

around in the driver’s seat. Some

relaxed. Isabella tried to guess what he was thinking,

was the back of his head. She could only rely on her intuition. “I

get. Sometimes my mind snaps

her hair, speaking calmly. “You’re not going to

why are you

fake, but the last part

it sounded genuine. Seth was

little schemes, and after she said the last part of that

of what Gordon had said in the morning. That idiot

you back because you think you