Trouble in Paradise by Three Way

Chapter 0576

Nicholas kept explaining in a low voice, "I really know I was wrong."

His words made my breath catch, and for a moment, it felt like my heart had stopped. I forced a light, mocking laugh. "So, does that mean you'll actually let me take Tabitha and leave?"

Nicholas was too feverish to immediately grasp the meaning behind my words. He stared at me, confused. Why was it that every time we met, all I ever talked about was leaving? If I wasn't telling him to go, I was saying I wanted to leave.

He pressed his lips together and shook his dizzy head, trying to clear his thoughts. But in the end, he said nothing.

How could he? Now that I was back, how could he let me leave again? As long as I stayed, he thought he had a chance to make amends.

Seeing his silence, I couldn't help but frown. Then, I instantly felt a strange sense of clarity.

Some people's so-called "I knew I was wrong" was nothing more than empty words.

You lower yourself and say everything I might want to hear, but what's the reality? You're domineering, arrogant, with no sense of right or wrong. You're selfish to

surged within me. It wasn't just fury-it

his sincerity had seemed genuine. I almost believed he truly understood his mistakes. If he had let me take Tabitha and Wendy and leave, I might have

truth? He was

to look at him anymore. My hands shoved his shoulders with all my strength. Caught off guard, his tall figure stumbled. He

I flung his door open and

breathe again. Yet his faint scent of tobacco clung stubbornly,

of the next door. I couldn't let the anger from my encounter with Nicholas

open unexpectedly. Wendy stood there with a tray in her hands. We both froze, startled

for me to stay

stepped aside to let her pass as she explained, "I just went to the kitchen to make you something to

me gently, "You should eat something. You won't last if you don't take