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

nothing, but she felt

smoke was scorching her skin, burning her. She felt

girl who had a crush on a boy, only for her crush to

reject her.

was saying, “Sorry,

she still couldn’t easily resolve

him she had said those things on

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sound too much like an excuse. No one would believe that, let alone

Seth.

hand and wiped her face

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

pep talk to herself, Isabella slowly got

rear-view mirror

“Any woman would kill to be the

Seth frowned, something stirring in

scene he had witnessed in the afternoon and

wanted to be Mrs. Shaffer,

the president’s wife.

years and tended to your needs

and never left you. Even

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

and praised Seth to stroke his

driver’s seat.

didn’t appear relaxed. Isabella tried to guess what

back of his head.

mind snaps out of it, you

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

are you

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

sounded

the last part of

in the morning. That

don’t want me to hold you back because you think you