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Chapter 239 Tired of Me?

Maggie wished she could immediately find a place to hide, instinctively turning her head away.

Instead, she was met with a chaotic crowd doling out compliments, casually parked luxury cars, and the steep mountain path.

How had he managed to find her?

She had already gotten rid of Nolan.

Feeling somewhat dizzy, Maggie’s mind began to go blank in waves.

“Mr. Caleb, you’re a very skilled driver.”

She overheard Nathael’s voice as he approached and shook hands with Leo.

“Mr. Harris, you’re too kind, Leo responded, his handshake gentle and his demeanour calm.

Closing her eyes. Maggie felt a bittersweet shift from joy to sorrow.

She had been dreading seeing him, but ultimately, he had come looking for her.

Now, her only solace was that Leo had accompanied her, preventing her from breaking down in tears at the sight of Nathael.

“Maggie,” came Nathael’s deep voice from behind her.

Bracing herself. Maggie turned around, her vision blurry as she faced him. “Nathael.”

His dark eyes intently focused on her, he slowly asked, “Are you having fun?”

“It’s okay…” Maggie replied, feeling an inexplicable guilt as she uneasily examined his expression.

Would he be angry!

Would he be upset?

The brief moment of bravado she had felt when turning off her phone had now dissolved into anxiety and

unease.

“I’ll take you home,” Nathael declared, reaching out to grab her wrist and gently pulling her to his side.

Maggie didn’t speak, she simply thought for a moment and nodded in response.

intensity. “Thank you, Mr. Caleb, for looking after her. However, I hope next time you will refrain from involving her in such dangerous activities.”

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appeared gentle and harmless, but on closer inspection, one might find his gaze colder

“It was me who asked him to

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go weak, prompting her to awkwardly look away.

going home.” Nathael stated

Leo, then departed with

waved at her and spoke softly, “Call me if you

nodded subconsciously, feeling Nathael’s grip

into the car,

Maggie turned and

and he exuded an imposing yet restrained presence,

asked in a deep

that was hard to place. Maggie’s eyes welled up, and she lowered her head in a gesture of guilt, murmuring, I was wrong. It won’t happen again.”

her, this confrontation was unexpected, a dramatic twist

disappearance, her ignoring of calls, and even her shutting off her phone.

echoed the many times she had smoothly talked her way out of past predicaments.

momentarily to determine if her remorse was

lips pressed tightly together, and stared out the window. He pulled a cigarette from the pack and placed it

reached out, plucked the cigarette from his mouth, tilted her head, and brought her bright, expressive face close to his, stopping barely an inch

as pretty as the view

her breath mixed with the perfumed air of the nightclub.

still, silent, his dark eyes quietly observing her.

the discomfort rising within her, Maggie softly pleaded, “Can you stop being mad? I don’t

her, Maggie felt

ignore me? Are you tired of me? Or do you think Leo

words weren’t particularly harsh, but they caused a sharp sting in Maggie’s nose as tears

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back in her seat, turning

the mountain road, leaving behind the noisy crowd and

the black mountain forest enveloped them in silence and stillness.

to gaze out the window, lost in thought. Tears swirled in her

congested and

the cruel truth that her days were

with enough security or if she had been the only one to hurt him from the beginning

help but recall her past life, remembering his fate in

her past life

curse, burdening him in life and even in

understood what made her flawed self so valuable in his

slightly dizzy, she unconsciously leaned back in her seat