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?

white. I swallowed and turned to face him, my

is the date

he just stared

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 tell if it was water or wine. Then I asked, "Mr. Grayson, what

grip was so tight

his knuckles were site. His voice was rough when he

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

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

the restaurant, the cold wind hit me

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

wind easily penetrated my jacket and made me shiver. I felt like I was freezing all

all the time and effort I put in, it seemed