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

you know Mr. Minogue is the date Jack set up

went serious, and he just stared at

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 tell if it was water

grip was so tight

glass that his knuckles were site. His voice was rough when he said, "I don't know, I'm

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

looking 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 be big, just something enough to cover the debt "When the project is delivered, I'll tell my lawyer to drop the case." Then,

restaurant, the cold wind hit me

were hardly any ears around, and I didn't want to go back to school yet, so I just walked down the main road

me shiver. I felt like I was freezing all

it seemed the Leah would finally face consequences, only for it to be