The Broken-hearted She And The Icy He

Chapter 99 Too Late for Regret

Chapter 99 Too Late for Regret

Seeing that it was almost midnight, John felt a rare flicker of unease.

Why hadn’t she come to him yet?

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Could it be that during their phone call earlier, his tone had been too harsh and now she thought he wouldn’t help her? Was she curled up somewhere alone, quietly licking her wounds?

It wasn’t until after he’d called her that he learned she had been drenched with several buckets of ice water by crazed netizens.

The thought of her soaking wet, huddled in a corner, silently crying-

Suddenly, it felt like a knife twisting in his chest.

He had to find her.

He couldn’t let her be left alone to suffer–what if she cried herself to sleep tonight?

She was always blocking his number, so he had prepared over a dozen backup phones.

He grabbed one of them and was about to call her to ask where she was so he could go pick

But before he could dial her number, a news alert popped up on his screen.

her

up.

-Shocking twist. Mathilda was the real bully.

Mathilda was the bully?

He immediately tapped open the

the full video James had obtained from

pushed to the ground by several girls. They kicked her

were taking revenge

ground in pain, barely moving, they egged

spat on her with a sneer–then slammed her foot down

just been slumped on the

had none of this. It only showed

several girls beside Lily in that footage–faces pixelated–everyone had jumped to the conclusion that she was

he had believed

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thought Bodger and the others had gone after Lily because she’d picked on Mathilda first and brought

at all. That it was Mathilda who had led those girls to attack Lily–then twisted the truth and painted herself as

told him before–Mathilda was two–faced, always bullying her, setting her

He should have believed her. Should have stood by her

the online video, he still instinctively assumed

needed comfort, care, and protection the most, he had turned around and accused her instead -had even forced her

the hell

through him like a tidal

like a dull blade was sawing at his heart,

he was being skinned

had

pain was so sharp it made him hunch

then, he wanted nothing more than

were no hotel records under her name

was. He couldn’t even rush to her, couldn’t

his

five or six times

No answer.

cried herself