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.

won’t force you. You have time to figure

 

of relief. I knew Michael would be

was just afraid that if I let our relationship go

the other hand, I was just an ordinary girl. Even though I,

fall any further. I’m not going to let myself get

not reveal my decision until after a few days passed so that I wouldn’t

I was under the impression that Michael would stay the night. Yet to my surprise, he left the table and picked up his coat as soon as he had finished his dinner, walking out the door without so much as

in an

and lay down on my bed, staring

another man after Justin, but I hadn’t expected to

I truly felt for him. When I couldn’t help but think of 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 a while to realize that that was

this little crush would go nowhere, and I was scared to let myself get heartbroken once more. So, I curled in

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

trying to get in between her and John again. There were actually several

hurriedly answered the call. “Nat! You finally

phone. I mean, what could I

my surprise, I heard Natalie

are you crying,

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

it that asshole, John? Did

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