Too Much to Bear My Love

Amelia hugged a pillow and said, “This matter isn’t solely Carter Scott’s fault.”

“You’re still trying to defend him! Amelia, don’t tell me that you still have feelings for him?” Tiffany exclaimed with wide eyes.

Amelia chuckled lightly. “The feelings I had for him have long dissipated four years ago. We aren’t compatible.”

“If you were to say you still have feelings for him, I’d break your legs and lock you up right here!”

Amelia tightened her grip on the pillow. “We ended up nowhere back then. Right now, it’ll only be even more impossible. His family and career have no correlation to me. We have no future together.”

Tiffany saw the flash of sorrow in Amelia’s eyes, her mood taking a downturn along with it.

“Amelia, to be honest, have you been unable to move on from Carter all these years? Otherwise, you wouldn’t have contacted him and even gone to work in his company.”

Amelia shook her head. “Tiff, I know my boundaries. Those years I spent being infatuated with him are long behind me.”

Tiffany glanced at the photographs on the table, finding them extremely offensive to the eyes. “Even though you claim you no longer feel that way about him, I doubt he feels the same way,” she said.

Tiffany had been by Amelia’s side, watching her grow from the sidelines. Naturally, she’d witnessed those years she spent crushing on Carter Scott. Back then, Amelia had been a university student with nothing to her name, while Carter was the ingenious, sophisticated child of a wealthy entrepreneur. The incomparable difference between their identities had caused her to bury her feelings for him deep inside her heart.

Although both of them had feelings for each other, neither of them tried to tear down the barrier between them. Carter Scott had never found out how she felt about him.

Clutching onto Amelia’s hand, Tiffany said, “Amelia, should you decide to divorce Oscar Clinton, perhaps Carter Scott would make a suitable life partner. But I still hope you’ll consider it carefully. The wealthy are too complicated. I don’t wish for you to be dragged into their mess and be unable to save yourself.”

Amelia laughed. “You’ve thought too much, Tiff. There’s nothing between us. Even if I were to divorce Oscar, I wouldn’t choose him either. I don’t wish to be involved with the rich for a second time. In the future, I’ll settle for a financially stable, decent-looking man. As for the rest, I won’t think too much about it.”

Tiffany quietened down. She knew Amelia hadn’t had an easy life. Despite being married into the Clintons, Oscar Clinton had no other fondness for her except for her body. A woman without her husband’s love would bound to feel empty inside no matter how much he tried to substitute it with material things.

“Tiff, I’m gonna take a quick nap. Wake me up at nine o’clock so I can go home,” Amelia instructed and laid down on the couch.

“Go sleep in the bedroom. The air-conditioner here is too strong. Careful it’ll give you a cold.”

“It’s alright. I’m quite comfortable here. Let me sleep and wake me up when it’s time will do.” Having said that, Amelia’s eyes fluttered shut and dozed off.

Tiffany shook her head resignedly, returning to the bedroom to grab a blanket to cover her. Then, she took out her laptop and started typing at an insane speed.

About an hour later, she was interrupted by a ringing phone. She looked everywhere before realizing it came from Amelia’s bag. When she went to retrieve it, it revealed that it was Oscar Clinton calling.

After a short moment of hesitation, she picked it up.

Come back right away.” Tiffany had only just answered the phone when

“Mr. Clinton, watch your tone. Amelia’s your wife, not your slave nor

of silence passed before he responded,

But all these years, she’s been playing her role as your wife so well. Even if you don’t feel romantically for her, please treat her slightly better. She may be glamorous on the outside, but she’s a good-natured person. If you could simply be a little

kept quiet once

then I’ll hang up now.

the call, Oscar uttered,

hearing things. Before she could ask, though,

Tiffany mumbled under her breath, “What the hell. How rude.

placed Amelia’s

rang. Tiffany had originally wanted to ignore it, but the incessant ringing was giving her a headache. With no alternative, she went to get the

with her chin raised. “What

her

sneered. “First, why don’t you tell me, who is

she was Amelia’s best friend, he still didn’t like her.

“Where’s Amelia?” he repeated.

me, Mr. Clinton.

wife. Does that suffice?” Oscar answered

you do know she’s your wife. Earlier on the phone, I assumed she was your slave or

“May I enter? Or else we’ll disturb your neighbors

to pass with a welcome gesture. “Mr. Clinton, please. Lest Amelia blames me for not

another word. Pouting, she reached out a hand to shut

your presence. But have you ever thought about how much stress she was under? Before she got pregnant, whenever you were off traveling for business, she would come to my place for a sleepover. At times, she had to take sleeping pills to go to bed. I

“Mr. Clinton. Such a good woman, do you really

who was wrapped cozily in blankets with only her head in view, Oscar’s heart skipped a beat. He felt like the Amelia

gently, feeling how cold her skin

not going against you on purpose. If you were to treat her better, I’d welcome

long as you stop spouting nonsense in front of her, she

simply had to throw a jab in her face. Sure enough, she and Oscar must have been born as nemeses. There was probably no chance of them

a goading tone?”

cold glance at her and said, “Despite your passable looks, I simply

 Am I supposed

praise, Mr. Clinton. I’m unable to treat you as a man either, for I’ve

the blanket and attempted to

her home,” he answered