Three Years Later, He Came Back Begging novel Chapter 140

Lawrence sat behind the wheel, his mind tangled in longing, confusion, hesitation, and a jealousy he could barely admit to himself. His chest felt tight, panic buzzing through him while he pressed his palms to his eyes, trying to breathe through the storm inside. It didn’t work. After a while, he forced himself upright and fumbled through the glove compartment, searching for he didn’t even know what.

He came up empty. His hands shook, his eyes burned red with frustration. He leaned forward until his forehead touched the steering wheel. All he could think about was Bonnie—her smile, the look in her eyes when she joked, the way she used to make fun of him just to see him laugh.

But those were memories from three years ago.

Now, whenever Bonnie saw him, she looked at him with nothing but annoyance and cold distance. There would never be that warm smile again, never her coming over with a laugh, throwing her arms around his neck, teasing about his stubbornness. She’d probably given all those parts of herself to someone else by now.

The thought made something sharp well up in his chest, a dull ache gathering behind his eyes. Lawrence drew in a shaky breath, determined not to cry, and stayed there motionless, slumped in defeat over the wheel.

He had spent the past month in Ostrovia, drowning in back-to-back meetings, nonstop business dinners, barely a spare minute to just exist. But every quiet night, when everything slowed down, he found himself thinking about Bonnie, unable to stop.

He was supposed to stay in Ostrovia a few more days, but as the month drew to an end, he dropped his remaining obligations and took the first flight back to Cabinda. There was a reason he couldn’t shake.

October thirtieth meant everything to him.

It was the anniversary of when they got together, the day she said yes, the day their story officially began.

Lawrence wondered if Bonnie even remembered. Did she ever look back? Did she think about the five years they spent tangled up in each other’s lives? Was she ever sad about the three years they lost? Did she ever regret it, even a little, the way he did?

So here he was, waiting, desperate enough to hope for a miracle. It took everything in him to fight the urge to drive into the underground garage and head straight to apartment 1208, just to see her, just to ask her—anything.

But in the end, what was he really waiting for?

Lawrence shut his eyes tight against the pain. All this waiting had only brought him the reality of a Bonnie who wouldn’t love him again.

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