Chapter 46 All James wanted was to make Thea happy. He asked the Blithe King for an invitation, but he had not expected someone else to take the credit for it and cause Thea to misunderstand the situation. He ran after her when his call with Henry ended. “Thea.”

He caught up to her and grabbed her arm. “I wasn’t lying to you,” he tried to explain. “I had someone send that invitation, but I wasn’t expecting them to take the credit for it.”

“You’re still trying to steal credit? You’re useless!” Gladys snapped. “Haven’t we been humiliated enough?!” “Sis, he’s just a retired soldier,” David said to Thea. “‘There’s no way he’s as capable as he says. Just divorce him!” “Enough, James,” Thea said, tears pooling at the corner of her eyes. “I’m grateful for how well you treated me, and I’m forever grateful you healed me. But I don’t want to see you right now! Please leave!” With that, she turned around, sobbing as she ran.

James panicked.

so helpless, even

 

but was forbidden from entering. With no other choice, he chose to leave. He decided he would explain what had, happened to Thea once she had calmed down. He made his way to Henry’s clinic. “James? What brings you here?” Henry asked as he entered the building, but stopped when he noticed the expression on James’s face. Henry wordlessly tossed him a cigarette. James was frantic. He wanted to make Thea happy, but he had not expected someone to shamelessly steal credit like this. “Should I not have come back here, Henry?” He asked,

wafted upwards from between his

“I’ve never been in a relationship before, so I can’t help

suggestion away.”li’s not that serious. Besides, this is Cansington. It’s a peaceful city, not the southern border. The tactics we use against enemies can’t be used against our compatriots.” Henry stayed

been through a lot since returning to the city. He had always thought of money as worthless, but recently he started seeing it as essential. “How would I know? Let me think. Once, you took some gold mines from an enemy country, then sold them to someone for around thirty billion. There was another time you saved some rich man from the enemy troops because he had committed a crime, so the rich man gave

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