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

Jocelyn just sighed.

this way

settled into a chair, pulling out a thick down jacket from

do that? You take my room, and I’ll sleep in Ursula’s,” Jocelyn insisted. “It gets cold in the mountains at night. Without any heating, you’ll definitely catch

Jocelyn’s insistence, Hamison relocated to her

And someone sat

have doughnuts for breakfast. They were both tired from

they couldn’t help but give Jocelyn and Harrison curious

like

He thanked the chief for having prepared the

a picture for me, Harrison handed his phone

and stapped a photo of

photographic skills, and then sent

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a sly smile, “Did you have a good sleep last night?”

speechless. Ursula knew exactly what was going on, yet

“Delightful, Hamison replied.

playful gestures at Jocelyn, hinting that perhaps

given up on

called out loud, “Where

Everyone turned around.

Jocelyn

from the night before, but his current look made

doughnuts,”

food, Melvin walked straight towards

his icy gaze, she

protectively in front

was palpable to the

was about to intervene, Melvin turned back

me to death, Ursula was patting her

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

Harrison asked

shook her

reasoned, “He must have been irritated

to avoid provoking him further-angering him could lead to an

breakfast, Harrison checked the time,

you to the entrance of the

“Great”

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