Reborn, Reawakened, Rekindled

Chapter 248

The elevator door slowly closed, and Bonnie’s eyes were filled with resentment, staring at me like a vengeful ghost in a horror movie

This ghost woman seemed to be constantly haunting me. In my past life, I was madly trying to find her, intrigued by whatever charm she had that could obsess Nel so much.

In this life, though, I just wish she would stay the hell away from me and not show up in front of me anymore.

After leaving the hotel, I rushed straight back to work.

Just as I arrived at the office, my phone started to ring. It was Neil calling “Why didn’t you tell me when you left?” he asked.

“Why should 17” I responded, not getting his point.

“I was going to ride with you back, I didn’t drive here” Neil sounded like he was treating me as his personal chauffeur. He added, “You drove me here, don’t you remember?”

His unreasonable words left me speechless. After a moment of silence, I finally asked, “Don’t you have your own chauffeur? Or maybe Louis could give you a lift”

Neil responded coldly, “You drove me here, so you should drive me back.”

I didn’t have time for Neils nonsense and hung up on him.

After a long day at work, I left the office exhausted and rushed to the hospital to visit my mom

“Ms. Finch, another man came to visit your mother in the past two days. He seemed to have worked here before, the nurse told me.

I nodded silently because I knew it was Russel.

I wondered if his injuries were getting better. The fight with Neil that night left both of them hurt, but Russel seemed to be the worse off

1 held back from asking, not wanting to give him any false hope

“Oh, and he asked me to give you this. The nurse handed me a small box, beautifully packaged and unopened.

open it until I got home

ring, the diamond about the size of a thumbnail and expertly cut. It shone brilliantly under the

ring: “I was going to propose to you once this all blew over, but I know you can’t hold

felt a sudden pang in my heart,

if I insisted on being with him, it would only leave him

for a while. I put away the

Russel had sent it to me, I

Russel that night at the bar, I hadn’t heard from him for a while. Even Mitch didn’t

you really broke his heart this time, Stella

the first place. I took up his time and wasted his emotions,” I said bitterly.

so against your relationship, and you never told us…. If you had spoken up earlier, we wouldnt have pushed you

respond, just silently sipping my drink.

held my hand. “You should cut back on the

realized how much I’d

would drink to relax, but I knew it

said I’d lost a lot of weight and wanted

party’ Stella, who had

birthday and invited us along Stella loved this

way to unwind. Maybe being in a lively atmosphere would help lift

there, only to be surprised.

friend turned out to be

too? Awesome!” Kitty laughed when she

a bit embarrassed, “Sorry, I didn’t have

I asked him to bring some friends to my birthday party,” Kitty pointed at Mitch, Cooper, and

of Russel in their gatherings

me aside, “You know

of Neil’s pursuers,” I replied, 1 gave

me