Refusing To Be His Perfect Replica, I Choose The Arranged Marriag by BlueMoone

Chapter 16

The cold breeze from the river blew directly at her, penetrating to her bones like a knife’s edge, but Aveline managed to get up and continue her pursuit.

However, she had underestimated the current state of her body. She hadn’t run more than a few meters before she fell to the ground hard. The car door opened again, and a pair of shiny handmade leather shoes came to a halt in front of her.

She followed the crisp pant leg of the man as it slowly moved up, and her gaze met Alexander’s icy eyes.

“Alexander…” Aveline weakly began.

A pair of knuckle–defined hands came down above her, and for a moment, Aveline seemed to see the white–clad youth who had once fascinated her in her youth. She instinctively reached her hand toward

him.

The moment their hands touched, Alexander withdrew his hand abruptly, giving her a glimpse of hope and then mercilessly taking it away, causing her body to fall hard again.

She hadn’t been injured before, but this time, her palms landed right on broken glass shards, and the glaring bloodstains dripped down from her palm.

His black pupils hesitated, but he didn’t make a move.

Aveline felt a bit dazed for a moment. She thought of how, in the past, he had taken her to the hospital in the middle of the night just for a small cut on her finger.

The duty doctor had even jokingly said, “This gentleman arrived early; if he had come any later, the

wound would have healed.”

The man in her memory and the one before her now seemed to overlap. His eyes, though ruthless as ever, were no different from the past, except now, they were filled with frost.

Alexander’s voice was cold and indifferent. “Aveline, others might not understand me, but now I don’t know you either. Someone who can somersault a thousand times at the gym can’t walk a few steps?”

His gaze at her was filled with contempt, cutting through her like a knife.

Aveline bit her pale lips and tried to explain, “No, I didn’t lie to you. I’m just ill, and 1-”

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picked up her chin, and his rough fingers brushed over her dry lips.

than the chilling

away. “My father is an upright and honorable man, and I’m sure he’d never do

a check from his wallet. He

you want

didn’t have to worry about

that generous, and Aveline

“Under one condition.”

have to say that Anthony is a wretched scoundrel who’s not worth more than

after hearing this. She raised her hand to slap him but was swiftly caught by his wrist. In the struggle, her injured hand hit his shirt, leaving a

spoke sternly, “Don’t want to say it? Then let him die in the hospital, and I’ve already chosen the burial site.”

like this?” Aveline questioned through

lifetime and keep her from crying seemed like a dream now. Her tears were just

dim yellow glow of the streetlamp that fell on his face lacked warmth; it was all

let go of Aveline and

stop him, but he pushed her away. He looked down with indifference, as if

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hopes, finally turning into a flurry of

her.

shattered

by one.

child, in a panic, and feeling helpless after

to get into his

unconscious woman on

“Mr. Sterling, it seems that Madam has fainted. Should

Lucas. “You seem to care about

used to care

ask more. He drove the

who never got up through the rearview mirror, a disdainful expression deepening on his

she seemed to have become better at

her practice various physical activities from a young age so that she wouldn’t be

bull, with a black belt in taekwondo

eyes, Aveline was