There was silence once more.
After a long time, Remington began to speak once more. "Natalie, you love him, but I love you too."
He didn't know when he had fallen in love with Natalie. He loved her so much that he couldn't set himself free, and his love for her had spun out of control.
Natalie was speechless.
After a while, she said bitterly, "But I don't have any feelings for you, Remington. Being in love means having mutual feelings for each other."
"Does that mean the person whose love is not reciprocated is destined to be sad for a lifetime, just like my mother?" Remington stared at Natalie.
Natalie bit her lip. "Your mother could have chosen not to be like that. She was completely capable of finding another man. Your mother is gorgeous, so she must have had a lot of admirers. She could have lived happily for the rest of her life, instead of leaving this world while still swallowed up by resentment."
Natalie's words angered Remington even more.
He confronted Natalie, "Natalie, are you saying that loving someone is a sin? That it's wrong to love someone?!"
"That's not what I mean!"
"Then what do you mean?!"
Natalie's mind was a little confused.
She realized that she could no longer communicate with him.
At the moment, Remington's eyes were no longer as charming as before. They were full of pain. "Natalie, it's not a sin to love a person. Can't you feel that I love you a lot? Just like my mother who loves my father so much, but my father can't feel it at all."
Looking at Remington's questioning gaze, Natalie's heart felt as if it had been sliced into halves.
She couldn't understand how an intelligent man like Remington could be so obstinate. Why couldn't he understand? Why did he have to turn so extreme?
Natalie shook her head heavily "Remington, what you are talking about is not love."
"Why not?!" Remington suddenly raised his voice. "I've done so much for you, how could you say this isn't love? Do you still want to be with Tobias after all the things I've done for you?"
"Of course I still want to be with Tobias!" Natalie looked into Remington's gaze and retorted.
Her tone was firm, without the slightest hesitation.
Remington's heart seemed to have been hit by something, and he was in extreme anguish. At the same time, a trace of malice flashed through his eyes, "Fine. Either way, it'll be impossible for you and Tobias to be together, unless you want Tobias to die of pain!"
Natalie's eyelashes trembled rapidly, her eyes slightly red. "Remington, why are you being like this? Why are you doing this?!"
Was the Remington in front of her really the man who used to cheer her up and help her in the past?
Why did the man she was looking at right then look so much like a devil, a devil that would bring her endless pain?
"Remington, why on earth are you doing this?" Natalie felt herself starting to tremble and once again shouted uncontrollably.
Remington seemed to not realize that Natalie was on the verge of breaking down.
He stared at Natalie with his pair of extremely attractive eyes. "Natalie, that's because I love you."
Remington's "love" made Natalie shudder and her hair stand on end.
She knew that Remington liked her, but she didn't know that Remington "loved" her.
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