Second Marriage to Mr. Rich (Ned Fletcher) novel Chapter 9

Chapter 9 

Miles and Mallory were siblings who grew up with Ned. They were also close friends with Angeline, in a way. 

And just as Miles said, Mallory was one of the very few people who still supported Angeline’s and Ned’s relationship after Angeline woke up from her coma. 

Angeline gripped her covers tightly and shut her eyes, trying to suppress the anger rising in her. Her face went deathly pale. “Why didn’t she explain things to me herself?” 

“Lory knows she made a grave mistake. She’s too ashamed to see you,” Miles said, drawing his lips in a thin line. He dragged up a chair and sat down next to Angeline’s hospital bed. 

“I know what you’re worried about. You’re worried that Ned would think Lory was just covering up for you even if she tried explaining things to him.” 

“What Ned thinks… doesn’t really matter anymore,” Angeline said in a faint voice. “I don’t care.” 

When Angeline was still in love with Ned, naturally, she would care about what Ned thought of her. But now that she no longer cared about Ned, she also didn’t care about opinion anymore. 

She didn’t care if he thought she was lowly or disgusting. None of is mattered anymore. 

Ned’s hands clenched into fists without him realizing it. He didn’t know if the anger he felt was because Angeline said he wasn’t important to her anymore or because she didn’t care about him anymore. 

He stood outside the ward, no longer meaning to enter. 

Miles thought that Angeline made the police report because she wanted to prove her innocence to Ned. When he heard that she didn’t really care, he sighed in relief. He then tried to continue reasoning with her. 

“Since you 

don’t care about Ned’s opinion anymore, will you please withdraw the case?” 

“I don’t care what Ned thinks of me, but it’s still not an excuse for Mallory to do such dirty- handed things in the name of it being for my own good. Which college or university would want to accept me with this scandal tacked onto my back? 

“That’s the main reason why I need the public apology from Ned,” Angeline said as she closed her eyes and spoke weakly. “Miles Locke, since I’m still alive, that means life still has 

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to go on for me. How am I going to survive in society if I don’t even have a college diploma? How would I live my life?” 

With such a huge fuss made over the scandal, Angeline knew that no college would ever want to accept her even if she got the highest scores in the entrance exams. 

And if she couldn’t get accepted into a college, she wouldn’t be able to complete her diploma or her degree. How was she supposed to get a job after that, then? 

She wasn’t born into a wealthy family who had a family business she could fall back onto She was just another regular person on earth. 

And on this earth, she had no parents, no relatives, and no friends. She didn’t have anyone else to rely on besides herself. 

Miles understood what she meant. He was going to have to pick up after the mess his little sister made.