"Then who do you want to be with?" Selina blurted out this question.
"You."
That was what Matthew was thinking in his heart.
What came out of his mouth was, "It's late, Selina, let's go sleep."
Selina's eyes, which were initially glimmering with anticipation, dimmed.
"Sure," Selina responded with a low voice.
Selina returned to her bedroom with her mind messy.
She knew that she had gotten the wrong idea. There was nothing between Matthew and Joycelyn at all.
At that moment, she felt herself hated Jocelyn even more.
There was nothing between the two of them, yet Joycelyn had come all the way to the Perry family and made such a vague statement. She was clearly trying to make Selina misunderstand them.
What a b*tch.
At least Selina wasn't wrong about that part.
Selina pursed her lips.
She got reminded of the harmonious atmosphere she and Matthew had back in the kitchen.
If she hadn't chosen to postpone the question, if she had asked Matthew about the relationship between him and Joycelyn, if Matthew had made it clear that there was nothing between them, would she have told him about her feelings? And...
Selina couldn't bear to think about all the "what-ifs".
She covered her face with a pillow as her cheeks flushed.
How would Matthew react?
Judging by how he ate all the terrible dishes she made, it seemed like he...
Selina had been assuming that she was nothing to Matthew, yet now that she thought deeper into this, it didn't seem to be the truth..
Selina got even more flustered.
She wanted to hide her feelings for Matthew, especially when she had deliberately made things difficult for him back then. She found it embarrassing to admit that she had suddenly developed feelings for him.
Yet, nothing could really suppress one's emotions.
Selina could tell that she was falling deeper for Matthew.
She didn't dare to imagine how things would be if she decided to confess to him. Would they have a happy ending together, or would her feelings be ridiculed?
She really didn't know.
Just when her mind was getting more and more troubled, she suddenly got reminded of someone else.
Lothar.
The things he said back then seemed to make sense.
Although Selina didn't believe in this, desperate times called for desperate measures.
After pondering for a while, Selina decided to call Lothar over the phone.
Lothar answered the phone almost right away.
"Selina, what a coincidence. I was about to call you too," Lothar sounded bright and innocent.
Selina was startled.
It was indeed a coincidence.
"By the way, the matter you brought up last time, regarding your ex-husband..." Lothar said.
Selina was given another surprise.
Lothar was asking her the exact same thing that she wanted to discuss with him.
However, the way Lothar addressed him made Selina a little unhappy.
"Ex-husband sounds so harsh," Selina protested.
"Isn't he your ex-husband? You got married and divorced, so that makes him your ex-husband, no matter legally or in common sense," Lothar responded.
Selina didn't want to dwell on this, hence she said, "Fine then, call him whatever you want. What do you have to say about him?"
"You mentioned that you are developing feelings for him again, and that you wonder how he would react if you confessed your feelings for him, right?" Lothar asked.
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