Chapter 363

He laughed coldly. “Get over it? How am I supposed to get over it when my wife gets all depressed because of another man no matter where she goes? He’s dead and yet he’s on your mind all the time. Don’t even think about telling me that you’re just grateful. You know Marcus better than I do. Would he help some stranger because he sympathized with them? No! You know exactly why he started getting close to you, but despite that, you still let him take care of you. Do you know what that’s called?”

He paused and looked at me before saying firmly, “Being selfish.”

I pressed my lips tightly together and looked at his darkening gaze before flashing a smile. “Yup, that’s me. I’m the most selfish person to ever exist so you should probably cut ties with me before my selfishness becomes contagious.”

I pushed him away and felt my eyes start to cloud over with tears. He seemed to realize and reached out to pull me back.

My chest was starting to ache from all the emotions and I yelled, “Get away from me!”

He wasn’t prepared for that and stumbled back a couple of steps. Instead of walking toward me like I expected him to, he continued to stare at me,

The tension in the air was so thick, it could be cut with a knife. I braced myself for what I thought was about to become another yelling match.

But he stayed quiet.

He looked at me for a long time before turning and walking away.

I didn’t know why things turned out like this. I knew he was good to me and I knew he was in love with me, but why did things have to turn out like this?

My tears started falling on the ground.

stepped out of the room, I rushed forward and hugged him tightly. “Don’t go,”

and let me continue to

I said, burying my face into

if he was waiting for

turned away from my tight grip. “If that’s all

his handsome, angular features and

messy fringe behind my ear before leaning down and planting a kiss right at the corner of my mouth. “Don’t involve yourself with the Whites anymore, including

took them in his own as he said in

anymore, nor did I have much to do for the

Ashton was talking about and the involvement I was talking about clearly differed. I owed Marcus my life. If Sophia and

couldn’t say yes

spoke up and pulled my hands out of his grasp. “I’m

along with a hint

don’t have to apologize to me,” he said, his voice already returning to his

like a deflated balloon. I looked up at him and said lifelessly,

nothing to do with Marcus and Rebecca. It was simply the two of us that no

charcoal. He was clamping his lips together

on,” he said in a

stepped back, looking

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