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.

Go to bed.” I turned to the

someone who couldn’t do

to clean herself in the shower before

pitch–black except for the moonlight that shone through

desolate.

don’t want to date Matthew?” asked Helen when

like the summer breeze that passed through one’s

little. Yet,

the Matthew from high school. He was my classmate and his grandmother’s dearest grandson. But he has now become the eldest son of his family. He’ll take over his family one day. That is

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realize how different we both are. Helen, I’ll never date

me.”

you left, Matthew threw a hissy fit. He fought with his parents in front of all the guests. His father dragged him to the study

you.

an obedient kid. He never talks back to his parents, not even when he was in his rebellious phase as a teenager. But today, for the first time, he defied his parents. I was devastated to see the wounds

do anything about it because he didn’t need my

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