Chapter 374 Janet Slipping Away
Outside the Longfellow’s villa.
Donahueiel sat in his car. His eyes were half–closed, and he looked obviously
weary.
His shirt was open, revealing his upper chest. His neat hair was now dangling and half–scattered before his eyes, a mixture of messy and sexy.
Suddenly, someone knocked on the car window.
Donahueiel’s eyes flung open, and he looked outside.
He got up too fast, and his eyes didn’t come to focus. He closed his eyes, and the moment he saw who it was, his pupils dilated and he couldn’t look away.
Janet stood at the door with a blank face. The wind blew up her purple skirt to a gentle curve.
And there she stood before the sun, with little makeup but so pretty that she was glowing.
Her hair was lifted by the wind, and Janet pulled them behind her ears. She pouted her lips in irritation and knocked on the window again.
Donahueiel instinctively looked towards his opened upper torso and scrambled to button up before opening the door and exiting the car, unknowing what to do.
He looked at Janet and could not look away. His longing eyes filled with expectations he could not speak.
Get Bor
Donahueiel took a deep breath. “Hi…”
“Donahueiel, we need to talk. Get in.”
But Janet cut in and interrupted him.
Donahueiel was dumbstruck. But moments later, a strange sense of joy came over him. He went over to the passenger’s seat and pulled open the door for Janet. He held onto the car frame so that Janet wouldn’t bump herself.
The two got in, and Donahueiel looked at his watch. He just woke up, and his voice was a little hoarse. “Just got up?”
Janet glanced at him. “So?”
Donahueiel fixed his gaze on her, and his lips curled up. “So you’re a lazy bug as well. For three years, I’d never seen you…”
“Stop.”
Janet snapped at him. “I’m not here to catch up. I know you’re here for
Quintina. Let me make it very clear: No can do.”
She finished with her statement. But Donahueiel did not reply to her for a long time.
Janet frowned and was about to ask when Donahueiel suddenly spoke.
“Did it hurt?”
His eyes darkened like a black hole that devoured everything just by looking at
Janet pouted her lips and did not speak.
Donahueiel felt his throat sore and his voice hoarse. “Did it hurt when your child was gone?”
Janet’s eyes widened, and she swallowed her sneer.
She felt like sleeping in a wet cotton quilt. Wet and cold.
But the feeling also came and went in an instant.
She waited three years for him to say this. But it didn’t matter to her anymore right now.
The precious line three years ago was nothing more than a joke.
“A lot.”
Janet looked coolly at Donahueiel, her voice flat. “When the child was gone, it was like my soul was ripped apart. So it hurt a lot.”
Donahueiel’s eyes corners turned red.
“I’m sorry. I’m so sorry…”
Donahueiel repeated over and over again as if there was nothing else he could
say.
Janet looked at him quietly. She didn’t make a sound or stop him.
Her mind was surprisingly calm at this moment. She recalled their time
together. There was nothing but exhaustion and thin air.
In fact, it wasn’t Donahuelel’s fault at first.
cannot force it on someone that was never meant to be.
“And I didn’t care for myself because I fancied you too much. So when you were drunk, I got spellbound and slept with you.”
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