Chapter 201

“Are you that oblivious, or is this your way of mocking my pathetic self? I slept with Matthew. I offered myself. What you see here are not wounds; they’re hickies!” Helen seethed. I saw loneliness and rage in her eyes.

I slumped onto my bed, unable to process the news.

“Oh? Does it sting now that Matthew and I are together?” Helen looked at me with the corners of her eyes. The contempt and sadness in her eyes made her look extra pitiable.

“No, you’re mistaken, Helen. I just… feel sorry for you.”

“He kept calling your name when he was with me until he lost his voice. And when he realized what he had done, he sobbed loudly. He said there was no hope anymore, that he was no longer pure.”

Tears suddenly fell from Helen’s eyes, rolling down her dainty cheeks. She cried despondently, “Why? How could he do this to me? He was sleeping with me yet he was thinking of you. Why? Why?”

Matthew’s text in the middle of the night came to my mind. I now understood why he apologized to me.

I did not have a bad temper, but I did have my principles. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have cut

off that decisively back

now dating Helen. He thought that he had betrayed

He was

I felt sorry.

and Helen. They

didn’t attend her lectures; she didn’t leave the apartment; she

returned home at noon, she was staring

at night.

or not, I just want to tell you that I won’t ever talk to

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been almost eight years now. I don’t think he knows if his feelings for me are true love or the longing for a bygone

long time. You need to give him time to heal, to mend his bruised heart. You slept with him even though you know

for granted. Give him some time. Keep him company. One day, he’ll be

don’t hold a grudge against me. I’m your friend, not

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