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.”

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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

he looked like. She said nothing, but

was scorching her skin, burning her. She felt like

had a crush on a boy, only for her crush

reject her.

was saying, “Sorry, we’re not a

Isabella was tough, she still couldn’t easily

If she told him she had said those things on purpose as a

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too much like an excuse. No one would believe

Seth.

her hand and wiped her face while Seth wasn’t looking. She

You have nothing

After that pep talk to herself, Isabella slowly got up from

into the rear-view mirror and met her gaze.

kill to be

Seth frowned, something stirring in

the scene he had witnessed in the

wanted to be Mrs. Shaffer, not just

the president’s wife.

side for five years and tended to your needs

to and never left you. Even

would be hard for me not to fall for you.” Isabella tried

Seth to stroke his

swirled around in the driver’s seat. Some light passed through it,

to guess what he was

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

hard to get. Sometimes my mind snaps out of

ruffled her hair, speaking calmly. “You’re not

you holding me back?”

fake, but the last part was true. Maybe she had

invested in it, so it sounded genuine. Seth was already annoyed

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

of what Gordon had said in the morning. That idiot wants to marry

you back because