The CEO's Regret: Darling, Don’t Leave Me novel Chapter 398

Chapter 307 1’ll Leave

“I could go to Mom’s…”

The idea appears, slow, lukewarm, uncomfortable… My mother, her house, the way she looks at m

Not like my father, not with disappointment. But with pity, and I don’t know which is worse.

“I could go back…” I whisper.

Going back to the company, going back to what I left behind, to what was meant to be. To what was always planned for me.

The heiress, the perfect daughter, the one who doesn’t make mistakes. The one who doesn’t fan ir love with the wrong man… The one who doesn’t give up everything for someone who… I squeeze my eyes shut.

No, I’m not going to think about him, not again. But then his voice appears, the way he looks at me his indifference.

“I didn’t want aco

an…” I repeat in a whisper.

And I hate my

way.

get up f

self for having said that. For having felt that way, for still feeling that

alk slowly through the apartment, observing the mess.

My me

M

is place.

ere…” I say softly.

e’s nothing; nothing to hold me back, nothing to sustain me, nothing to save me.

s, mistakes. And an emptiness that weighs heavier each day.

t of the mirror, I look at myself, I really look at myself.

k circles under my eyes, messy hair, dull eyes.

ave you become?” I whisper.

s no answer, only that woman I don’t quite recognize.

eathe deeply, slowly. As if trying to make a decision I’ve been avoiding for days.

father was right, Alexand

cause I don’t want the

e my eyes.

+s more than it should.

Chapter 307 I’ll Leave

“That’s it…”

I murmur, and for the first time in days… I feel something akin to clarity.

It’s not relief, it’s not happiness. It’s resignation.

“Yes…”

I nod slowly.

“I’ll leave.”

The words co out firm. Even though something inside breaks a little more.

“I’m leavin

I look a

st time.

“TIL

sh

mother, I’ll work with my father, I’ll do what I have to do. The right thing, what I ve done. Even if I don’t want to, even if it hurts, even if I have to tear this feeling root.”

ing left here…”

s if I need to convince myself, as if saying it would make it real.

a second… Just a second… I feel like I can do it, that I can get out of this, that I can leave it that I can be someone else.

ter person, someone who doesn’t depend on anyone, someone who doesn’t grovel for love, eone who… Silence envelops me. And I stay there, standing in the middle of the apartment. nvincing myself… that this time… I am going to leave.

s as if all this time away from him, from Ethan, has helped me look at myself more…

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Chapter 308 If I’m Not Happy

Chapter 308: If I’m Not Happy…

Vanessa

The phone feels heavy in my hand, heavier than usual. As if that simple call were harder than it

should be.

Is it really this hard?

I took a deep breath and looked at the screen. My mother’s name is there. I just have to press it

That’s all.

“Mom…” I whispered, as if I were already talking to her. “I’ll come back… I’m going to come back…

I took another deep breath and closed my eyes with difficulty.

This is the right decision, to come back. This is what you have to do.

Damn it!

Go get your life in order, Vanessa, you have to get out of this.. that’s what I keep repeating to

myself.

Leave it all behind… Everything.

I squeezed the phone a little harder, my finger nearing the contact… And then… The screen lit up.

My eyes looked down and what I saw was… A notification, then another… And another.

I frown. It’s news, press.

I shouldn’t care, but my heart… It suddenly races.

For no logical reason, without knowing why, but it does; strong, fast, uncomfortable. As if something inside me already knows what I’m going to see.

“No…” I murmur.

But my finger moves on its own, as if I can’t stop, as if I need to see it.

I open the notification, and the world… Stops.

My vision blurs instantly. I don’t need to read, I don’t need to swipe, the image is there, large, clear… the image speaks for itself.

Her, she’s the first thing I see, Clara dressed in white, again.

With him, with Ethan.

Chapter 308: If I’m Not Happy

My breath catches, literally. As if someone has squeezed my chest from the inside.

I feel something warm trickle down my cheek. I don’t notice it at first, until it falls.

A tear.

I swallow, but I can’t. There’s a lump in my throat, hard, painful. It won’t even let saliva pass.

“No…” I whisper again, but this time it sounds broken.

I run my hand over my eyes, quickly, desperately. As if that would change what I’m seeing.

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