Nothing Matters, except YOU & Me novel Chapter 671

The atmosphere was making them both feel bad. While Leon was uncomfortable with Heather not telling him everything, he could not even complain about it because he knew that he deserved it.

He now slightly regretted his decision to accompany her here. He felt that she might be even more comfortable being alone and that his presence had made her feel confined.

Meanwhile, Heather shifted her gaze elsewhere. In the past, she had been the most at ease when she was with him, but now, Leon’s figure was like a heavy stone that rested upon her heart. The barrier between them really ruined their friendship.

Both of them hoped that Zayne could quickly walk out of the room to resolve the awkwardness between them while Leon constantly looked at the door.

Without a phone in her hands, Heather could not even find something to pass the time. Looking at the huge television in the living room, the only remaining option for her to salvage the awkwardness hangin in the air was to switch the device on.

Leon had initially lowered his head to look at his phone. Upon hearing the sound of the television, he turned to look at it—there was an advertisement playing at this moment.

After he noticed that her eyes were glued on it, he shot a gaze at her from the corner of his eyes. When he saw her attentiveness, he felt even more ashamed of himself.

Even though Leon did not think that his previous actions had badly hurt her, Heather’s subsequent attitude made him feel really remorseful. The relationship that he spent so long to nurture was destroyed easily just like that.

He felt that he should take the initiative to do something. After he thought about it, he walked to her and sat down beside her without much space between them.

He could even smell the fragrance from her body, but he could also feel her stiffen.

“Heather, I used to think that what I did was not a big deal. It’s only now that I realize how wrong I was,” he spoke in a low voice that had a tinge of sorrow.

“Do you really think that you are wrong?” Heather gently asked Leon as she still did not see an earnest remorse in his eyes.

He nodded. “Heather, I think I’ve done something that I should have never done. I seem to have destroyed our friendship and your trust in me.” When he recalled the huge effort he had thrown in back then, he hated himself. After a pause, he continued, “I spent such a long time nudging you to open up to me. I’ve even wasted all the hard work I did in the past.”

After hearing Leon’s words, Heather felt slightly wistful. She had no idea what to tell him and his current behavior made her ask herself whether she was being too sensitive. She somehow thought of Myra at this moment. Back then, I did such an awful thing to her and destroyed her first love. What I did was much worse than Leon’s actions.

Heather considered whether she should forgive him. Now that they were in a crisis, she felt that she should not have an argument with him at this moment. Thinking about how well he had treated her back then, her resolve wavered even more.

“Don’t think too much into it. We are still friends. It’s just that we have different bottom lines and different perceptions on things,” she consoled. In fact, she could understand why Leon would do something like that—in his world, doing such a thing would not hurt their friendship at all.

“Heather, I thought I’ve already lost you,” Leon responded as he looked into her eyes while trying to distinguish the truth in her words.

“No, it’s just that I need more time.” When Heather heard his sad words, she felt awful about it and somehow remembered Matthias. I always have so many rules that hurt those around me. I also test their bottomlines often, but I always push the blame on others.

“Heather, I know it’s going to be difficult for you to accept this, but I really know where I messed up now. Can you please don’t give up on me?” Leon even stretched out his hands to grab her arm like a child.

She did not push him away, but she did not know what to tell him as she looked at him. She saw the panic in his eyes and knew that she had really shocked him this time around.

They were so focused on their conversation topic that they did not realize Zayne’s arrival to the point where they never heard him opening the door. Looking at their weird posture, he could not help but frown.

In fact, he was quite curious about the relationship that the two of them had. It was too close to say that they were just friends, but it was way overboard to say that they were lovers.

He touched his beard as he thought about it. Logically speaking, such a situation would not happen to Heather and it was true that he could not even see a hint of romantic interest in her eyes.

On the other hand, it was obvious that Leon had suppressed his deep love for her. Even though he hid it well underneath his eyes, Zayne quickly saw through him.

Zayne joked, “Am I disturbing the both of you?”

Leon finally released his grip on Heather. Even though he was usually thick-skinned, he felt slightly embarrassed at this moment. The way he looked earlier was just too humiliating.

She also shifted her body to keep a distance from him. After all, it seemed rather inappropriate to have such intimate behavior with him in front of Zayne.