If I really wanted money, I would have asked for it from him the first time we slept together. But I didn’t.

All I wanted was to have a proper discussion with him, not another argument. He was a domineering man, but he wasn’t coldhearted.

 

Michael scanned me from head to toe curiously. He didn’t have to say a single word for me to guess what he was thinking and what he was about to do.

“I’d advise you to give up on the idea of becoming my girlfriend. I can give you anything except that. I would never marry a nobody like you; know your place, Anna!”

If I’m just a nobody, then why are you, a huge CEO, so insistent on clinging to me?

 

You’re surrounded by so many great, intelligent women. You could easily get any one of them to fall for you. So, why me?

“I never wanted to become your girlfriend. Relax. I know where I stand.”

A man like him was most likely going to marry someone hailing from a powerful family background and beloved by all those around her.

 

There was no way that a woman like me would ever become his wife, and the mere idea sent chills up my spine.

You have time to

 

of relief. I knew Michael would be

things out. I’d made the decision a long time ago to end things with him. I was just afraid that if I let

just an ordinary girl. Even though I, too, liked handsome, charming guys like him, this particular man was destined to never be

let myself fall any further. I’m not going

passed so that I wouldn’t aggravate him in his brief moment of

my surprise, he left the table and picked up his coat as soon as he had finished his dinner, walking

an empty house, and

a shower and lay down on my bed, staring blankly at the ceiling.

thought that I would never be able to love another man after Justin, but I hadn’t expected to fall in love with

him every time I tried to go to sleep, I chalked it up to having interacted with him too much during the day. It took me

go nowhere, and I was scared to let myself get heartbroken once more. So, I curled in on myself like a

my phone ringing snapped me awake from my daze. I glanced at the screen, cheering up when I saw that it

to get in between her and John again. There were actually several times where my finger nearly pressed the “dial”

call. “Nat! You finally

sounded excited even through the phone. I mean, what could I say; Natalie calling was the best thing that had happened to me

surprise, I heard Natalie sobbing on

are you crying,

stomach. Natalie was a bright, happy-go-lucky girl who rarely

that asshole, John? Did

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