Chapter 1135

Watching her struggle with a mix of helplessness and heartache, Thalassa couldn’t help but ask, “If you still care so much, why pretend it doesn’t bother you?”

“What good does it do to care? It just gives him more power to hurt me more,” Hertha replied with a grim face. She stared at the retreating figure of Alaric in the distance, murmuring to herself.

Thalassa heard her and understood all too well.

Caring for a man who didn’t love you back only made you fall deeper and allow him hurt you, intentionally or not. And you’re left powerless, with nothing to do but guard your own

heart.

Hertha was a testament to that, and Thalassa was the same.

Thalassa didn’t try to stop her from drinking anymore. Instead, she signaled the bartender and ordered another cocktail and a juice.

Thalassa said, raising her glass of juice

Cheers, to

“Cheers, to life that kisses us with pain, and to us

juice, while Hertha downed

seen a ghost. She nudged Thalassa’s wrist

an outrageously dressed woman. His one arm wrapped around her slim waist, and the other playfully lifted her chin. He wore a roguish smile on his face as he

seductively, responded to Alaric’s advances with a coy

Thalassa quickly reached to cover Hertha’s

deny the obvious truth? I’m not

see to know what Alaric was going to do with

was feeling a mixture of melancholy and helplessness. She couldn’t even change her own situation, let

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scene before her was painful to watch, yet she stared openly, with a cold, self-mocking laughter bubbling up

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