Chapter 184

I pretended to be asleep and ignored Helen.

“Stop pretending. I know you’re awake,” she slurred and flopped onto her bed.

“How did you find out?” I propped myself up. Helen lay on her bed. Her glamorous attire failed to conceal the disappointment and sadness she was feeling.

“Your eyes were moving. And your breathing was odd too. You don’t breathe like that when you’re asleep.” Helen sat up and ruffled her hair out of frustration.

Her nose was red, and she spoke with a nasal voice. I wondered if the autumn wind had given her a cold or if she had cried for a long time.

Given her looks and her family background, Helen was prideful and confident. But her unrequited love for Matthew might have dealt a huge blow to her ego.

I was also certain that Matthew was the reason why she was so upset now. However, there

wasn’t much I could do.

To ask a guy who liked me to like another woman was very cruel. I couldn’t possibly do that.

late. Go to bed.” I turned to

for someone who couldn’t

a while. Then, she went to clean herself in the shower before drying her

moonlight that shone through the

desolate.

want to date Matthew?” asked Helen when I almost fell

like the summer

was little. Yet, Matthew liked me. Somehow, I became her roommate. What a twisted joke from

Matthew from high school. He was my classmate and his grandmother’s dearest grandson. But he has

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realize how different we both

me.”

father dragged him to the study to punish him. The Loxleys are infamous for their strict discipline. Matthew

you.

know, he has always been an obedient kid. He never talks back to his parents, not even when he was in his rebellious phase as a teenager. But

anything about it because he didn’t

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