The Broken-hearted She And The Icy He

hapter 171 A Mask Too Heavy to Bear

Chapter 171 A Mask Too Heavy to Bear

He cared about Leila:

He truly wanted to meet her.

The Leila he imagined must be an extraordinary girl.

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What he wanted from meeting her wasn’t just a simple face–to–face–it was the hope of feeling that spark, that rush of excitement when expectations meet reality.

But if he found out that Leila was actually her, it wouldn’t be a pleasant surprise–it would be a shock.

The more Lily thought about it, the worse she felt. Even though she was doing her best to tilt her head up, forcing herself not to cry, tears still slid from her chin and splashed onto her phone screen.

When they blurred the message he’d just sent, she scrambled to wipe them off, but no matter how many times she swiped, more just kept coming.

“Leila, same time and place tomorrow. I’ll be waiting by the window,” he messaged again.

Lily quickly used her sleeve to dry the screen, then carefully typed her reply.

“Can we… not meet after all?”

She knew how selfish that sounded.

She knew James didn’t like her. And yet, she still wanted to hide her identity, still wanted to keep chatting with him as “Leila,” still wanted to selfishly soak up the warmth he gave her like a thief pretending to belong.

“I think just chatting like this, staying friends… that’s good enough.”

James was still sitting in the café.

The second he heard the ping of a message, he opened their chat thread right away.

agree to

She’d even seemed excited. Tonight’s change of plans had only

say no

had been anyone else,

he cared about her. He wanted to marry her,

they couldn’t meet, how could they be

just her being polite. She was turning him

didn’t feel the same way

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he wanted a future with, he was willing to put away his pride and give it one

want to just be friends.

to meet only made Lily

discovering who he really was, she had chosen to run away. Selfishly, she

his latest message, she realized something: it was going to be impossible to

didn’t have the courage to tell him that

for good, she didn’t want him to look

Leila was really her, he would definitely feel

only make up an excuse–to completely erase his feelings

meet because I’m planning to go

which country? Are you at the

another message came

come find you right

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she couldn’t let James come looking for

him to stop liking her and give up the idea of meeting. She acted in haste, without thinking, and sent

didn’t expect you to believe it, and I didn’t know how

so we shouldn’t meet. And you definitely shouldn’t