Rewriting My Heart's Fate

Chapter 81

The room was so quiet that one could hear a pin drop. After a long pause, Ethan finally spoke.

"I'm sorry we're meeting like this."

They had already ordered a whole table of food before I arrived. As soon as Ethan spoke, I looked at the fancy dishes on the table.

My stomach felt uneasy, though I wasn't sure if it was from hunger or something else. I felt a burning discomfort and a queasy urge to throw up.

1 forced a smile, but Ethan's apology didn't mean much to me. It felt like a pointless gesture-saying sorry while still causing trouble. I couldn't understand why he even bothered to apologize.

1 picked up the utensils and took a bite of the food. "Have you been looking into my background?

that his knucides turned white. I swallowed and turned to face him, my tone

know Mr. Minogue is the

and he just

up Wiley Group's financial troubles." The food was so spicy it was making my throat hurt. I took a sip of the drink next to me. I couldn't

grip was

were site. His voice was rough when he said,

cut Ethan of "What do you want to offer me to get me to

guilty. The room felt heavy, and 1 wanted to leave. After a moment, I stood up, picked up my bag, and said, "Send a project to Wiley Group. It doesn't have to

soon as I walked out of the restaurant, the cold wind hit me hard,

and I didn't want to go back to school yet, so I just walked down the

me shiver. I felt like I was freezing all over, but I wasn't sure if the chill was from Ethan's

After all the time and effort I put in, it seemed