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I smiled bitterly: “So Mr. Noah, please be merciful and let me go…”
Noah’s eyes were bloodshot, overwhelmed with guilt.
“I’m sorry, it’s all my fault. I shouldn’t have let you go back then. I’ll use the rest of my ie to protect you. Whatever Lucas can give you, I can give you too.”
Noah trembled as he took out a gift box from his pocket.
I guessed what it was and swatted it away.
Noah humbly picked up the diamond ring and stubbornly grabbed my hand.
“I admit, at first I accepted you to get revenge on my second brother. But I really fell in love with you later. You were my only treasure when I had nothing, no one was willing to devote themselves to me like you did…”
“Those four years I wasn’t intentionally neglecting you, I was afraid to fall in love, afraid to get trapped in a relationship. You don’t know how disgusting my family was, I really had no way out back then…”
“I endured for four years without touching you because I cherished you. I was dirty, rotten, bad, disgusting, I didn’t care about sinking to their level with those people, but I wanted to keep you pure and clean…”
These words were truly touching, but I was no longer the 18–year–old girl I used to be.
When Noah pretended not to love me, he had already prepared to abandon me at any time.
Self–esteem, fame and fortune, opportunities, physical desires…
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In his heart, every one of these was more important than me.
I laughed: “Noah, I’m heartless, you’re utilitarian, we can’t be together now.”
Noah more urgently expressed his feelings to me.
“We can, I’m not like Lucas, I’ll be faithful to you… I had no feelings for Isabella, I broke off the engagement with her after you left. Zoe was just kept around to satisfy physical needs. I’ve scolded her and sent her away…”
“…It was wrong of me to set Lucas up, I didn’t consider your situation or your feelings, I was just too eager to win you back and got confused. I
promise I’ll change, can you forgive me?”
Noah was almost begging as he held me.
But I knew that in making every choice, he only considered himself.
It just so happened that this time, the person who could satisfy him was me.
I gently stroked the diamond ring Lucas had given me.
“I’m not going back to you. If you really can’t forget me, you can find a young girl who looks like me…”
I swear, I was sincerely giving him advice.
But Noah laughed through his tears: “Ava, you’re really cruel.
I waited until late at night, and finally there was a knock on the hotel room door.
Outside wasn’t Lucas with a gloomy face, but the cold and unrestrained William.
Noah was drunk and disheveled. He laughed loudly at William, forcefully pulling me.
“Mr. William, can you tell your brother to give my woman back to me?”
William looked down on us: “Mr. Noah, I’ve already turned a blind eye. But if you continue to neglect your duties and damage the Lucas family’s reputation, I don’t mind taking you down as well.”
“Mr. Noah, you’re young and promising, think bigger, the future is full of opportunities. Whether we’re enemies or friends is up to you.”
A calm warning, but full of killing intent.
The hand gripping me obviously loosened.
Noah wasn’t drunk. I took the chance to break free.
“Goodbye.”
Noah, actions speak louder than words.
We are both selfish and calculating people.
I followed William downstairs. We took the stairs.
“Ava, Lucas is waiting downstairs. He was afraid you wouldn’t go with him, so he asked me to come up.”
I was grateful that I had stayed clear–headed earlier, still having a way back.
“Brother, I came here with Noah just to make things clear and end it.”
William stopped at the corner, his back straight and cold.
“Mm, take good care of Lucas in the future, he loves you very much.”
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I replied as smoothly as reciting: “I love Lucas too.”
William laughed shortly: “Ava, you don’t know, but you’re the type who becomes colder and more resistant the more you like someone.”
I choked, falling silent.
