The Unwilling CEO’s Love Game

Chapter 143

Melvin stood in the yard. His gaze was fixed on the glow seeping through the window. Were they locked in a passionate embrace?

Right then, he felt an overwhelming urge to smash the door.

Glancing around, he spotted a brick by the fence, gripped it in his hand and ascended the steps to stand before the green-painted iron gates. Clenching the brick, he took several deep breaths until the lights inside the room went out.

In an instant, his breath caught in his throat. His heart plunged into darkness.

They were together!

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The reality was right in front of his eyes!

With fingers clenched too tightly, the rough edges of the brick grated painfully against his skin.

A sinister gleam flickered in his eyes as he raised the brick. But in the end, he hurled it onto the road beyond the gates. The dull thud echoed loudly in the quiet of the countryside.

Inside, Jocelyn sat on a stool with her eyes glued to the outdoors, genuinely fearing that Melvin might burst in with weapons

The noise confirmed that her fears were unfounded. Her heart, which had been in her throat, finally settled back into place.

It took a while before Harrison uttered, “He’s gone.”

Jocelyn exhaled a long breath, “I was really scared he’d come in and start a fight with you.”

“If he actually had barged in, no matter how much you liked the guy, I would’ve told you to drop him,” Harrison said, turning the light back on, “Stop overthinking it. The guy needs to be hung out to dry. You gotta push him to find out what he’s really about.”

Jocelyn shook her head, “I didn’t want to push him. Forcing him to do what he’s unwilling to do goes against the flow of nature. A melon forcefully twisted off its vine is never sweet. I don’t like putting people in tough spots.”

“You both haven’t let go of each other. Isn’t it painful to act like this?”

“It takes time,” Jocelyn knew that she couldn’t simply forget someone she had deeply loved so long.

She wasn’t lying to herself. She was trying to persuade herself to move on.

Harrison knew she was trying hard to let go of Melvin. As an observer, he thought it was tough.

How long would these two continue to entangle, he wondered.

“It’s already three in the morning. We should rest,” Harrison said as he checked the time, “I need to leave early tomorrow. There are relatives back home I still need to visit during the holidays.”

“You shouldn’t have come. It’s such a long trip.” Jocelyn always felt he shouldn’t have come so far.

off his glasses, “If I hadn’t come, how would

Jocelyn just sighed.

this

a chair, pulling out a thick down jacket from his bag and draping it

you do that? You take my room, and I’ll sleep in Ursula’s,” Jocelyn insisted. “It gets cold in the mountains at

Hamison relocated to her

And someone sat by the fish pond until dawn.

village chief’s house to have doughnuts for breakfast. They were both tired

Jocelyn and Harrison curious glances. Their looks conveyed a

didn’t feel like explaining

everyone with polite enthusiasm. He thanked the chief

picture for me, Harrison handed his phone to Jocelyn, “I want

and stapped a photo of him with the doughnuts.

checked the picture and smiled, “You’ve got a pretty good photographic skills,

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approached with a sly smile, “Did you

what was going on, yet she still joked about it.

“Delightful, Hamison replied.

at Jocelyn, hinting that perhaps their staged act had turned into something

up on

Martinez!” Uriah suddenly called out loud, “Where

Everyone turned around.

Jocelyn and Harrison, his eyes

from the night before, but his current

have some doughnuts,” Uriah

food,

by his icy gaze, she took a step back.

himself protectively in front of Jocelyn,

tension was palpable

intervene, Melvin turned back and entered the house.

death, Ursula was patting her

frightened. Not so much of what Melvin might do to her, but the possibility of a

you okay?” Harrison

shook her head.

reasoned, “He must have been

that it was best to avoid provoking him further-angering him could lead to an unpleasant outcome

the

Jocelyn said, “I’ll walk you to the entrance of the village.”

“Great”