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.

box but didn’t open it until I

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

note under the ring: “I was going to propose to you once this all blew over, but I know you can’t hold on any longer”

felt a sudden pang in my heart, and tears welled up

knew I might have missed out on a great guy, but if I insisted on being with him, it would only leave him

crying silently for a while. I put

to me, I

the bar, I hadn’t heard from him for a while. Even Mitch didn’t have

his heart this time, Stella couldn’t help blaming

with him in the first place. I

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

didnt respond, just silently sipping my drink.

“You should cut back on the booze You’re

I might not have realized how much I’d been drinking lately, often before bedtime, to

free time, I would drink to relax, but I knew it wasnt healthy, especially given my not-so-strong constitution.

more. Everyone said I’d lost a lot of weight and

to a party’ Stella, who had been engrossed in her phone, suddenly

a friend celebrating a birthday and invited us along Stella loved this

refuse, thinking it might be a good way to unwind. Maybe being in a lively atmosphere would

all went there, only to

out to

Kitty laughed when she

your birthday?” I asked, a bit embarrassed, “Sorry,

come, so I asked him

was hardly any sight of Russel in their

me aside, “You

I replied, 1

at me in