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.

a beat in that instant, as if I was hoping

the caller ID, my heart dropped, and I let out a sigh

his throat, "Ms.

was so sudden, I hummed

throat again without

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

moment, probably wrestling with his thoughts,

with my little gadgets. "Mr. Wagner knows about your new job,"

surprised, but I knew

it

what I was doing, "What, he's trying to sabotage i

Wagner well," Ivan

my new job,

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

"Did he threaten them, saying if they hired me, he'd

seemed I was

typical CEQ's arrogance, thinking he's the supreme being, untouchable by anyone, and ready to make anyone who crosses him vanish from