No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

Chapter 146



I don't know why I felt like crying, just a bittersweet, swollen feeling, like a sponge soaked in water...

Maybe it was because, in this house without my parents, someone cared for me again when no one else did.

Or maybe it was because Ernest actually got me, knew that even though I left the amusement park, my heart was still tied there.

I kept reading the note over and over. When I stepped out of the bathroom, I really saw it on the small dining table in the diner, a thermal flask and a fried egg on a plate.

At that moment, I pressed the note to my chest, and tears started to roll down.

Ernest made breakfast for me, and I didn't take his kindness for granted. After eating, I sent him a message: Thank you.

Those two words were simple, but I couldn't just take his efforts for granted.

After sending the message, I played around with the little trinkets I picked up from the night market yesterday. My phone rang before I could get them sorted.

that instant, as if I was hoping for

heart dropped,

"Ms. Hudson,

I hummed in response,

again without

"Ivan, if you have something to say, just say it. Don't beat

probably wrestling with his thoughts, wondering whether to tell

just patiently switched the phone to speaker and continued fiddling with my little gadgets. "Mr. Wagner knows

but

it

inform me about that. I stopped what I was doing, "What, he's trying to sabotage i

Mr. Wagner well,"

at my new job, but I hadn't

had signed the contract, and they would have to notify me if they decided to terminate

lightly, "Did he threaten them, saying if they hired me, he'd make them vanish from Seabreeze City?" "Heh," Ivan laughed at

was right. Conrad

with a typical CEQ's arrogance, thinking he's the supreme being, untouchable by anyone, and ready to