The Broken-hearted She And The Icy He

hapter 29 The Past Tense

Chapter 29 The Past Tense

“He said he smeared you online just because he couldn’t stand you. It had nothing to do with Elsa. Jones Corp’s legal team will sue him and make him pay the price. Lily, I know you’ve been wronged. But you were slandered, and I’ll take care of that. You really shouldn’t have taken matters into your own hands and humiliated Elsa like that.”

Seeing him reach out to pull her into his arms, Lily coldly slapped his hand away and kept her distance.

Something came to mind, and she couldn’t help but laugh. “You’ll handle it? Like how you handled it when you married Elsa–pulling down the trending posts, scrubbing the news coverage? And what did scrubbing it even accomplish? After the news was pulled, the people who saw it still remember. They still know you and Elsa held a wedding and looked like a perfect match. And just the same, they’ll still believe I, Lily, am a shameless mistress. I didn’t do anything wrong. Why should I carry the stain of being called a homewrecker, have people whisper behind my back?”

“And you say you didn’t want Elsa to be embarrassed… She had the nerve to ask you to marry her when we weren’t even broken up yet. If she’s humiliated, isn’t that exactly what she deserves? We were supposed to be the ones getting married. The two of you were the ones sneaking around, hugging and kissing. Wasn’t that cheating? Isn’t she the mistress? Trying to act like a saint–how convenient for the both of you.”

“Lily!”

John’s expression went cold the moment her words turned cutting.

His voice was laced with warning. “Elsa is not a mistress.”

“Ha!”

Lily couldn’t help but feel like he was telling a joke.

There was no point continuing this conversation. She turned her face away and gave her final command, voice icy. “Get out.”

He didn’t move.

pulled her into his arms

the tighter he held her, like

sigh, as if he was compromising. “If you really don’t want to, I won’t make you apologize to Elsa. But Lily… Elsa’s not doing well. The online hate triggered her depression and she tried to kill herself. Even if you won’t say sorry, I hope you’ll stop hurting

his arms. She

surrounded and pelted with filth. And

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Then why the kisses, the

And as for marriage…

on the day they were supposed to register, he stood her up. Who

by Elsa’s side until the end. That’s why I’m breaking up with you. Go be

“Lily!”

scene? Do you have to drag everyone

he was about to continue, he noticed how unnaturally red

to her forehead. Her body

“You have a fever?”

the heat, he

100 degrees.

his usual cold gaze was full of rare panic. “Why are you burning up

soft and

concern in his voice and