The CEO's Regret: Darling, Don’t Leave Me novel Chapter 166

Chapter 118 An ‘Love You”!

Chapter 118: An “I Love You”-2

Really, but then… I remember her doubt, her fear. What she said.

The past, what still weighs heavily. And I shake my head softly. Changing course.

that we could do something this weekend,” I finished.

Her expression changes, she relaxes and smiles.

“Something like what?”

I lean forward a little, regaining my confidence.

“Whatever you want.”

A pause.

“We could get out of town… or stay. Something quiet.”

She nods.

“I like the idea.”

And smile, and that smile… it confirms to me that I did well.

That it is not the time, not yet.

I raise my glass and take a small sip, but inside… The idea does not disappear.

She is still there, firm.

Clara… in my house, with me. As it should always have been.

I watch her again as she talks about something else, something light, something everyday.

And I smile.

But this time… for me, because I didn’t say it. But I thought about it and when the right time

comes…

I will not hesitate.

The car stops in front of her building, the engine goes silent, but inside me… everything is still in motion.

I look at her and she is there, next to me, with that calmness she has… the one that sometimes reassures me and other times disarms me completely.

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Chapter 118: An I Love You” -2

I don’t want it to come down yet, I don’t want this moment to end.

“This makes me happy,” I say quietly.

She turns her face a little towards me.

“What?”

I barely smiled, my hand moving on its own, resting on her leg, above the fabric of her dress

I feel it warm, real.

I slide my hand slowly, unhurriedly… in a soft, barely perceptible caress, as if she were measuring the boundary between what I feel and what I must contain.

“To be able to be like this with you,” he continued. “Nearby… as I really want.”

She doesn’t turn away, she doesn’t say anything. But her breathing changes. And that… I feel

My fingers stop, no further on, I don’t need to.

I look at her, I really look at her.

As if I wanted to memorize every gesture, every reaction.

“I love you,” I say.

The words come out effortlessly, without fear. No doubt.

Her eyes… change, they literally light up. As if something inside her responds to that… as if she’s been waiting for it.

She doesn’t say anything right away, but she doesn’t need to.

Because in her eyes… everything is there.

I feel my chest tighten in a way that doesn’t hurt… but it weighs heavily. Because this is no longer just desire.

It’s not just closeness, it’s something deeper. More real.

My hand is still there, on her leg, now still… firm… as if I didn’t want to lose that contact.

“You don’t have to say anything,” I add softly.

My voice is low, almost a whisper.

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Chapter 118 An 1 Love You-2

“Just… Stay like this for a moment longer.

And in that small space… in that shared silence… I feel that, little by little, I am recovering t

I stay a few more seconds in front of her building looking at her. As if getting out of the car wasn’t just that… as if it were an obligatory pause in something that I do not want to stop

She opens the door slowly, picks up her bag and before leaving she looks at me ag

Her eyes still have that brightness, the one that takes my breath away.

“See you soon,” she says quietly.

I nod.

“Very soon.”

She closes the door and there I see her walking towards the entrance of her building.

Every step, every movement. Until she disappears inside.

I exhale deeply. As if I’d been holding my breath until that moment.

I run a hand over my face and barely smiled.

“I can’t believe it,” I murmured.

I put the car in gear, I drive away. But my mind… continue with her.

With her gaze, with her voice. With that moment when she didn’t need to say “I love you” for me to feel it.

I drive a couple of streets, relaxing my body little by little… When a car passes in front of me.

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