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.

fact, he stubbornly pulled her into

held her, like he wanted to absorb her

let out a 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 her. She’s fragile now. She can’t handle any more. I’m only taking care of her out of pity. I don’t have any romantic

free from his arms. She

filth. And now

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Then why the kisses, the

And as for marriage…

she had wanted to marry him, he kept delaying the date for Elsa’s sake. Even on the day they were supposed to register, he stood her up.

why I’m breaking up with you. Go be a couple.

“Lily!”

you still making a scene? Do you have to drag everyone

as he was about to continue, he noticed

her forehead. Her body

“You have a fever?”

heat, he stopped arguing and immediately

100 degrees.

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

his voice uncharacteristically soft and worried. “Let’s stop fighting, okay? Let’s

his voice and