The Woman From Hell

My words drew laughter from Matthew. He raised a brow but offered no denial.

A sense of unexpectedness surged in me. It looked like that was what he had indeed intended.

Taking a deep breath, I looked up at Matthew, with my gaze and voice filled with confusion. "I don't understand."

I shook my head and stared at him fixedly.

Matthew looked into my eyes, his expression freezing suddenly before he said, "Love makes people crazy, doesn't it?"

His question made my heart tremble. Before I could respond, he continued, "You've done a lot of stupid things for Theo. If someone asked you what you wanted, how would you respond to them?" "I..."

I was once lowly like a speck of dust. I would endure his ignorant and even vicious words one by one, but what did I want at that time?

Right, what did I want?

I lowered my eyes. I only had Theo in my heart at that time and would be happy for a long time as long as he looked at me.

Matthew smiled again. "Who I am now is who you were back then. Do you understand,

persuade Matthew, just as

his purpose. I did not even want to attend the banquet. So I turned around and was prepared to

me. "Are you going

I need to stay to

up against Theo. Do

smart or not, but you'll only know if you attend the

battle you fight. Since I was already here, it would be best for me to look into it

"Alright, okay. I'll stay, but

corner of Matthew's mouth raised while he looked at me.

He stood at the door and said respectfully, "President Zimmer, almost

out with me." He stretched out

I could only do as

flower path, we arrived at

handful of individuals but now it was a full house. Judging from how they were dressed, one could tell that they were distinguished individuals. When Matthew and I appeared together, almost everyone present redirected their attention to