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

like. She said nothing,

scorching her skin,

a crush on a boy, only

reject her.

saying, “Sorry, we’re not a good match.”

she still couldn’t easily

told him she had said those things on purpose as a

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sound too much like an excuse. No one

Seth.

her hand and wiped her face

have nothing to be

to herself, Isabella

rear-view mirror and met her

“Any woman would kill to be the wife

president’s wife… Seth frowned, something stirring in his heart. He

the scene he had witnessed in the afternoon and confirmed that

Isabella wanted to be

the president’s wife.

years and tended to your needs every day. I

never left you. Even if you were

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

praised Seth to stroke his ego.

the driver’s seat. Some light

to guess what he

head. She could only rely on her

get. Sometimes my mind snaps

speaking calmly. “You’re not going

why are you holding me

the last part was true. Maybe she

sounded genuine. Seth was

she said the last part of that

Gordon had said in the

to hold you back because you