Too late for a second chance (Lila and Dorian)

Chapter 183

Lila covered her eyes, hiding the sorrow deep within them.

"Lila, stop being so stubborn," Dorian advised, narrowing his eyes as he caught sight of the mocking curve on her lips.

"We both know it hasn't been easy for us to get to where we are today. No matter the wrongs or rights in the past, can't we let it go and start on a clean slate?"

"No!"

Lila lowered her hand and looked at him coldly. For the first time, her temper flared, causing her to snap at him.

Though she appeared petite and delicate, with typically gentle features, at this moment, she was as cold and unyielding as frost.

"Dorian, we were no longer the same as before the moment you started leaving me repeatedly for other women."

The white overhead light accentuated her slightly raised brows and eyes, intensifying her cold expression. She looked like snow strayed from a wintery realm-beautiful but cold yet impossible to approach.

"It's not that I didn't soften or I didn't give you chances. Look at what happened?

"Dorian, you chose this path-for both of us. Now that we've ended up here, you're telling me to let it go? To start over? Don't you think that's laughable?"

tone calm, but it carried

sorrow.

bring himself to meet her gaze. He looked away, his demeanor flustered. "I never did anything to hurt you," he

cold gaze

faltered, recalling the drunken night with Zara, a mistake that had haunted him.

before we broke up. I never did anything

expression might soften at his words, but it

and she simply

tell him that what he said no longer mattered to her. Bo

eyes

worth the

restless, the growing sense of powerlessness within him threatening to consume

being difficult. If you keep this up, it won't do

her expression was calm. "Are you done?

further ignited Dorian's frustration. Did

Magi Pictures gave her the right to speak to

this?

he could lash out, she added, "Or

you out?"