Tangled Temptations

Chapter 196

Chapter 187

Eloise was shaking with anger. She said furiously and helplessly, "Harvey, are you only happy when I have no friends or family around?"

Harvey scoffed. "Landon is your friend, huh? His feelings for you are so obvious, everyone knows!"

Eloise knew Harvey wasn't just joking around. If he wanted something, he would go all out. If he said he was going to go after Landon, he meant it. Eloise didn't dare to take the risk.

Landon was her friend, who helped her many times. She would rather drift apart from this friend than drag him down.

But she was filled with resentment! She hadn't done anything wrong. She just liked someone. If liking someone was a crime, then she would rather never have loved Harvey!

Eloise gave a bitter laugh. She said softly, "You don't love me. You're just mad that someone else might take what you like. Harvey... Love is not about possession. It's about letting go!"

Harvey said coldly, "Like Landon? If you don't want to have it, how can you call it liking?"

At least in Harvey's eyes, that was not the case. What he wanted, he had to have!

When Eloise didn't respond, Harvey took a step forward, reaching out to touch her face, but Eloise dodged.

"Now you won't even let me touch you?"

...

Harvey let go of her, adjusting his shirt in the mirror, meeting her gaze through the reflection.

The elevator door opened. Landon was standing outside, looking at Eloise with warm eyes. "Let me take you home."

Eloise stiffened a bit. She remembered Harvey's warning. Landon gently put his arm around her shoulder, whispering, "You're about to cry. Let's go home."

Eloise was a bit dazed. She gave Landon a look and ended up getting in the car with him.

...

night, in

light, watching Eloise get into Landon's car.

me get close to you. Then... I'll

cigarette at the red light, took a drag, and

and whispered, "Landon, we shouldn't keep in

to get hurt because of her. He deserved a good life and giving it up for her wasn't worth

leaned back in the seat, saying softly, "Eloise, I've liked you for a long time. I gave up once because I saw that Harvey liked you, and I gave up because I couldn't beat him. The Bowen family

if I

didn't know what to say. She hadn't promised anything to Landon, but he was willing to take risks for her. If she were still

She wanted to apologize to him, but she had also

so torn, Landon laughed. He said, "Eloise, this is a man's business! I chose to do this, so you don't need

sat quietly on the couch. Milo curled up next to her. Her phone was right next to her. She hesitated for half the night, but in the end, she didn't call

news, she often saw Landon's Sleak Tech making headlines, mostly negative economic news, even involving issues of

called Veronica, inviting

from Eloise. "You, a busy person, actually

"Am

"Super transparent!"

is in bad shape, not only with

a bitter laugh.

power and connections, and Landon is far from

tried to talk him out of it. Landon had said,

a long time, then she smiled. "I

persuading Landon would do no good because Landon was doing all this not to be with Eloise, but to vent his anger for her. The only one who

take a taxi but slowly walked back to her

He sat in the car

he looked up at her, his gaze focused. Eloise hopped into the car, eyeballing the road ahead as she questioned, "So,

on his lips. "You got a soft spot for Landon, don't ya? Do you really think I'd have you guessing my intentions? All I'm asking is for you to give me your word, quit seeing Landon and stop keeping

set a trap, nearly bankrupting Landon's company, just to

can't play

"I haven't even asked you to come back to me, to live with me.

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