Chapter 268

Brielle’s eyes were rimmed with redness as she slumped into a seat, eventually leaning back on the sofa and drifting off to sleep.

When she awoke, it was already the next day, and her head throbbed with pain. Limping, she managed to make herself some food and tried contacting Max again, only to be greeted by the mechanical voice on the other end.

She had been blocked.

Brielle felt like a needle had been jabbed into her heart. She forced a self–mocking smile. Was this what they called reaping what you sow? It seemed Max really wanted to end things.

Deflated, Brielle put down her phone and stared blankly at the ceiling.

She spent the next three days at home in a daze, unable to muster the courage to reach out to him again.

On the morning of the third day, Aubree called, insisting that Brielle shouldn’t wallow at home. After freshening up, Brielle hailed a cab to the diner.

Aubree, upon seeing her, furrowed her brows with concern. “You’ve lost a ton of weight. Haven’t you been eating these past few days?”

Brielle managed a weak grin as she took a seat. “I did eat, but I didn’t really have an appetite.”

for a

can manage on my own.”

with Aubree went on any longer, she wouldn’t be able to keep herself from spilling everything about

to his high and mighty world, and she had no right to drag him down from his pedestal. He was meant to be

to expect more. After all, Max had never shown his feelings.clearly. Perhaps he had felt a flicker of affection, but it

like this, oddly enough, felt like a

had always been such a pessimist when it came to

heard her name being called. Looking up, she was surprised to see Miranda. It felt like an eternity since they had last met. These three

if suddenly dragged back into

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with the Haywood family affairs to join the ladies for their afternoon teas,

it was burning with fury as she approached. “Brielle, is that really you?

if fate was

following Miranda had also heard of Brielle and began to

raised? Why doesn’t she even greet you when she sees you?”

You might as well have raised a pet.”

together to ostracize Brielle, the unwanted upstart. In their eyes, Brielle

her former fiancé.

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