Ditch Fake Bond She’s Tycoon Wolf Heiress novel Chapter 198

Chapter 198 Set Her Up

Chloe’s POV:

“I fail the evaluation every year. I’m 24 now. I’m running out of time.” The words came out calm, but laced with a despair I hated. “If I don’t get out of the Kelly family soon, I’ll lose my mind.”

I turned my head away, unable to look at him. I didn’t want to see his expression. Was it pity? Or that same unbearable gentleness he’d shown me in the past?

I knew he was somewhat aware of my situation. He knew about my mother’s massive inheritance and the strict conditions. He knew how the Kelly family had “carefully” raised me to always fall short. He had tried to help me countless times before, but I always shut him out.

He was the one person I couldn’t be indebted to. That was my final, non-negotiable line.

The car filled with a silence heavier than before. I pushed the door open and practically fled. The cold night air hit my face, making me shiver and clearing my head a little. I murmured, “Just let it be, Liam. Don’t come any closer. We were never from the same world to begin with.”

I didn’t look back, quickly walking toward the Kelly Villa-a place that symbolized all my confinement and struggles.

The car’s headlights stayed on behind me, casting a long beam until I turned the corner and disappeared from his view. That light felt like a silent gaze, burning a hot, painful mark into my back.

Liam’s POV:

She said, “I hate you.”

Those words felt like a sharp, painful jab straight to my chest. A cold numbness spread through my limbs. I gripped the steering wheel tightly, as if it could restrain the violent, wolfish impulses raging inside me. What was I even doing? Forcibly taking her and “protecting” her in the clumsiest way possible only made her despise me more.

Her faint, wild-stubborn pheromones filled the car, mixing with my own sharp scent of cedar. It created a contradictory, suffocating atmosphere. She was curled in her seat, giving me only a profile etched with resistance. I couldn’t see her face, but I could clearly feel the solid weight of her hurt and anger.

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