Trouble in Paradise by Three Way

Chapter 0261

However, Jasmine's words didn't stir even the slightest ripple in my heart.

After a moment's thought, I calmly said to her, "Then you have even less reason to provoke me. After all, without me, you wouldn't have anything your have now." "Ms. Jones, you're so full of yourself!"

She refused to admit it, but inside, it was as if she had been struck with a heavy blow. Her fists clenched tightly by her sides.

No one knew better than her how she had come by everything she now possessed, but she was unwilling to accept it, having paid such a heavy price.

A wave of humiliation surged within her, "Nick being good to me has little to do with you. He just can't stand you, Ms. Jones, so don't entertain any unrealistic fantasies!"

"If that's the case, what are you worried about? Can you leave now?"

I remained calm on the surface, but inside, I couldn't shake the feeling of desolation. Although I hadn't interacted much with Jasmine, I'd managed to get a sense of her character. She wasn't like Claudia, who spouted lies. without hesitation.

I could easily imagine the kind of things Nicholas had said to her, something. along the lines of him giving her whatever that I had and didn't have, or how he would make her the happiest woman in the world.

I closed my eyes, recalling the man who had spent the entire night standing outside my door. A nearly maddening sense of dissonance washed over me. Between Jasmine and me, who was really the one who was dreaming?

so proud of?" She gritted her teeth and pulled out her phone

raspy voice came through the receiver,

voice betrayed no sign of illness. It was

perked up like a cat in spring, her

don't want to be the host anymore. I want to be

earned a low chuckle from him. It sounded like the intimate exchange of lovers, a declaration of affection to the

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in the air, not

from Nicholas as if he were considering it.

you'd do anything

resignation and agreement when he

what I

my flesh and blood tearing apart in my chest, and a

over.

held