No Sex for Six Years Because of Her? I'm Done novel Chapter 231

Chapter 231 The Truth He Never Said

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In the end, Amelia chose to stay silent. She turned her head back to the window, but the disappointment in her eyes couldn’t be hidden.

At that moment, the car slowed down.

Mason turned on the signal and pulled over under a patch of shade by the road. He turned off the engine.

“If you have something to say, keep asking,” he said.

He turned to her. His dark eyes looked straight into hers.

Amelia felt flustered under his gaze and instinctively looked away. “It’s nothing. I was just… asking.”

“Amelia,” he said. His voice was deeper than before. “Look at me.”

That look felt like a net. There was nowhere to hide.

Amelia bit her lip. In his eyes, she saw herself. Small, awkward, and carrying a strange sense of hurt.

“You came back then, but you avoided seeing me,” she said at last.

She took a breath and finally asked what had stayed in her heart all this time. “Were you still angry with me?”

Mason didn’t answer right away.

He looked at her in silence, his gaze deep and steady.

After a long moment, he nodded.

“Yes.”

Before Amelia could recover from the shock, Mason turned his eyes back to the road.

“When I came back, I planned to see you. I wanted to ask how you were doing.

“So I quietly attended a business event where the Rowes were present.”

Amelia’s heart jumped.

She remembered it now. Late last fall, there had been a banquet like that. She’d attended with Ethan, the heir of the Rowe Group.

Mason continued, “That night, you wore a light champagne dress. You stood beside Ethan, smiling just right, very…”

He didn’t finish the thought, and his tone stayed flat. Yet Amelia felt her heart tighten.

“Your eyes barely left him the entire night.

“When he talked to others, you stood half a step behind him. Whenever he turned to say something to you,

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your eyes lit up at once.

“I was standing in a dark corner not far away.”

Then the accident happened.

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“I saw a waiter holding a tray get bumped by someone. He lost his balance and was about to spill a full tray of red wine on you.”

Amelia held her breath.

She remembered that scene clearly. If the wine had spilled on Ethan’s custom suit, it would have caused a

scene.

“The glasses tipped. You had no way to avoid it. Even Ethan beside you would have been splashed.”

Mason’s voice grew colder. “But at that moment, without thinking, you pushed Ethan away.”

That single push moved Ethan completely out of harm’s way.

She took the full hit herself.

Dark red liquid poured down from her shoulder, soaking her pale dress in seconds. The stain was large and ugly.

“Your clothes were soaked, but the first thing you checked was whether Ethan was hurt.”

Mason paused at that point, his gaze settling once more on Amelia’s pale face.

He remembered it clearly.

At that moment, his eyes had gone cold.

All he could see was her, as if Ethan were the only one in her world.

For Amelia, though, it was painfully embarrassing.

That night, she had forced a smile to deal with the mess so Ethan wouldn’t lose face. When they got home, she still had to endure his impatient blame.

She had never known that in some dark corner that night, someone else had seen all of her foolish devotion.

Mason’s voice continued, calm and final.

“At the same time, I heard the guests whispering.

“They said that even though you were only an adopted daughter of the Harlow family, you were deeply in

love with Ethan.

“They even mentioned how you took care of him personally when he injured his leg before.”

Listening to his emotionless retelling, Amelia felt like she was being judged in public.

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Yes. At that time, she hadn’t woken up yet.

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She had clung to that ridiculous marriage without love, believing that if she gave enough, she could one day warm Ethan’s stone–cold heart.

“So,” Mason concluded, “I thought there was no reason for me to appear again. You were doing well.”

He had left the banquet that night. After that, every time he quietly returned for Zach’s matter, he never once thought of seeing her again.

Amelia’s face burned.

She wished she could go back and slap her foolish past self.

She cleared her throat awkwardly. “About that… actually…

“I only found out later. When Ethan hurt his leg, it wasn’t an accident at all. He injured it by climbing 999 steps to a chapel to pray for a cross necklace for Hannah.

“As for that night at the banquet…” She gave a bitter smile, as if laughing at herself. “I was just afraid he would lose face. I was afraid he would take it out on me.”

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