The Broken-hearted She And The Icy He
Chapter 170
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.
she would agree to
meet tonight. She’d even seemed excited. Tonight’s change of plans had only happened because something urgent came up–he was sure of
say no
it had been anyone else, he wouldn’t have
wanted to marry her, to spend
couldn’t meet, how
realize–this wasn’t just her being polite. She was
probably didn’t feel the same
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the only person he wanted a future with, he
to just be friends.
to meet only made
a friend. After discovering who he really was, she had chosen to run away. Selfishly, she still wanted to keep hiding behind the name “Leila,”
she read his latest message, she realized something:
she still didn’t have the courage to tell
they stopped talking for good, she didn’t want him to
really her, he
could only make up an excuse–to completely erase his feelings for “Leila,” to end
because I’m planning
which country? Are you
another
airport? I’ll come
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Lily knew she couldn’t
was for him to stop liking her and give up the idea
a joke at first, but I didn’t expect you to believe it, and I didn’t
both men, so we shouldn’t meet. And
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