Arrogant Man VS Unyielding Woman novel Chapter 384

Even Dan and Jesse were shocked as everyone turned to look at Zed in bewilderment.

Zed nodded. Reading Benjamin's expressions, he said,"She told me that she would come back only after everything gets handled."

Silence fell on the room as Zed shared this piece of information.

Noticing the awkwardness engulfing all of them, Zed's eyes twitched.

'Is what Jean said true?

Jesse...' thought Zed.

He couldn't help turning his eyes on her. Jesse was clearly flustered as she fidgeted with her empty hands.

Jesse felt Zed's eyes burn into her back. And yet, she lowered her head and dared not to meet his gaze.

The blush was clearly visible on her fair complexion. Seeing this, Zed was immediately heavy-hearted. He turned to meet Dan's and Benjamin's eyes.

The two of men nodded at his signal and spoke almost in tandem,"The two of you go ahead with your conversation. We will go first."

With this, both grandfathers held each others's arms for support to walk towards their rooms.

Zed would be a fool to not notice anything strange about Jesse's feelings for him by now.

A bitter sadness made way into his heart as he couldn't believe what he had just found out. Looking at Jesse quizzically, he asked,"Jesse, is it true?"

Zed didn't say it frankly, but Jesse knew what he was thinking.

In a flash, tears coursed down her cheeks. Looking at Zed's confused handsome face, she involuntarily asked,"Zed, do you hope it to be true?"

"I..." Zed badly wished to say 'no'.

But looking at Jesse's sad, pathetic eyes, his heart softened.

"Why are you so foolish?" His tender affection for Jesse was obvious from Zed's tone. A while later, he added,"Can't we get along with each other just as siblings? Why do you treat me like this?"

"Zed..." Her eyes followed each of his movements and gestures closely. After mulling over the situation they were in, Jesse softly said,"There is no reason for love. It can't be controlled by reason. I also hope that I haven't fallen in love with you if it were in my control. All this while, I have been miserable and tired about my love for you..."

Before she finished speaking, pearl-like tears glistened on her smooth cheeks.

"Jesse?" Zed trembled all over on hearing Jesse's words, staring at Jesse with amazement who was now weeping quietly.

When they were kids and Jesse cried, she would throw herself into Zed's arms for comfort. But now, it had grown too complicated. Zed wondered how time had passed and when Jesse had grown up to become so strong and face everything on her own.

Many things had changed as time passed by.

But only Zed hadn't changed. He still treated her as his little sister.

However...

It was just because of his oversight that Zed had successively hurt the two women that he treasured the most in his life.

Zed turned his reality over and over in his head to see if there was a way out of this without getting one of them hurt. At last, he blurted out just one word,"Sorry..." He hesitated again and wondered what to say next. Staring at the beautiful woman who he had spent his life with as a brother, he added,"My carelessness and negligence towards you have brought you this pain. It's all because of me."

Zed's apology stung Jesse as she suddenly looked up in grief. She vehemently shook her head sideways and said,"Zed, it is not your fault. Everything I do is out of my own will. I don't have any regrets, no matter how much pain I have suffered."

Zed gazed at Jesse with complex feelings, beating against his chest. And then, he saw the most brilliant and beautiful smile run across that familiar face.

Jesse's words distressed him, but he gathered to tell her the bitter truth. At last, he said,"Jesse, I have always cared for you as if you were my biological sister. The person I love is..."