Standing Before Love (Myra and Sean) novel Chapter 490

Matthias released Heather from his embrace while trying to calm himself down. His behavior on this day was too abnormal; how could he hot-headedly come to Heather while his life was still in a mess? Still, he showed no signs of forgiveness after becoming much calmer. “Now that you’ve ruined my relationship, you have to pay the same price.”

Matthias couldn’t stay calm whenever it occurred to him that Heather would be together with another man, for he would never allow her to be happy with someone else. He was fixated on Heather the same way he was fixated on Myra. No matter what, Heather had to be bound to him; even if their relationship was an unhappy one, they would stay unhappy together.

“That’s boring,” Heather uttered indifferently. The more Matthias spoke in an imperative tone, the more she wanted to oppose him. No one could boss Heather around, and she would not show signs of weakness even in the face of Matthias’s domineering behavior. Now that the guilt she felt toward Matthias had vanished without a trace, the only thing left was her fight against him.

According to Robert, Matthias would never become an ally of the Langston Family. Even though it wasn’t necessary to make an enemy, Heather would never give way again and again if Matthias provoked her repeatedly. “Your relationship isn’t ruined at the hands of me, but at the hands of yourself. Didn’t you come to Bradfort City for Myra?” She was confrontational. Since Matthias wanted to keep on deceiving himself and others, she wanted him to wake up to reality.

“Yes, that’s right,” Matthias answered without the slightest hesitation.

Meanwhile, Heather sneered at the note of certainty in Matthias’s voice. The night breeze brought a chill to the air in this barely inhabited neighborhood, and she wasn’t afraid of being seen under the dim streetlight. Even so, she didn’t want to continue being locked in a stalemate here with Matthias anymore. “If you really came for her, you should’ve come a long time ago. So many years have passed, yet you put it off until Myra gave her heart to someone else and is about to marry her Mr. Right,” she said sarcastically. She wanted to go back into her house right now, but she knew from the way Matthias looked unwilling to give up that she had to stand in the night wind for a while longer. When she saw that he had been swayed by her words, she followed up her success by saying, “Stop fooling yourself and others. You came to Bradfort City for the sake of your interests, and Myra is nothing but a perk.” She analyzed Matthias’s thinking in a leisurely manner. Since he was unwilling to confront his innermost thoughts, she would let him have a good look at his profit-seeking self.

“I have always wanted to come to Bradfort City, but I couldn’t find a chance to come here because of the Locke Family’s strict family rules.” Matthias continued to defend himself, but he looked a lot more clear-headed and no longer sounded as aggressive and belligerent as before.

Heather didn’t allow Matthias to find any excuses, though. “That’s an excuse. No matter how hard it is, one would go to their beloved person as soon as possible.” Matthias kept saying how much he loved Heather, but that wasn’t the way he conducted himself at all. Heather wasn’t a foolish girl in love, and she was aware of many things deep down.

“I couldn’t come out; I was constantly under surveillance by the Locke Family in Tasnia City, and they were watching my every move,” said Matthias, continuing to talk about his difficulties. Now that he was completely drawn into this subject by Heather, he focused on whether his feelings for Myra were just as he said.

“Would the Lockes have killed or locked you up over the fact that you stealthily ran away to Bradfort City?” Heather stared hard at Matthias and saw the evasiveness in his eyes. Men always liked to make excuses for themselves. They loved themselves the most, but they kept claiming and pretending that they were deeply in love.

“I was in a really tight spot while living with the Locke Family. I couldn’t make any mistakes.” Matthias glowered at Heather, for he couldn’t understand why the conversation had changed into an interrogation against him instead.

“In the end, you’re still after the position of the Locke Group’s president.” Heather smirked contemptuously. Matthias looked absolutely pathetic, for he even wanted to deceive himself. Love was nothing in his eyes, and his love for Myra was only an obsession caused by a missed opportunity back then. Did Matthias understand what love was? To some extent, he was even more cold-blooded than Heather. His inner pursuit of profit was endless, so how could such a person, who was blinded by greed, have the right to talk about love?

Matthias blew up like a cat that had its tail stepped on. “I did nothing wrong. The position is mine in the first place!”

“On one hand, you want to please the Locke Family and successfully become the Locke Group’s president. On the other hand, you want to have a pure relationship. What a nice dream you have.” Heather stared icily at Matthias. She could no longer tell whether someone like him was detestable or pathetic.

“I want to live better and have more power. What’s wrong with that? A man can only give his woman the best of everything by standing on the apex!” It never occurred to Matthias that he was wrong. He did all of these for Myra’s sake; he was waiting for the day when he could meet her again and give her everything she wanted.

“In other words, do you mean that those men who fail to reach the apex don’t deserve love? Your idea is so ridiculously childish. Love cannot be measured with power or money; it stems from the rawest flutter of the heart,” argued Heather plausibly, but she could only talk the talk. In reality, she wasn’t any better than Matthias, which was why they were the same kind of people. Being incapable of love, they predicted the future of their relationships and weighed the pros and cons like how they made predictions about the stock market. Even if there was true love, they wouldn’t be blessed with it, for they were the ones who abandoned love first. “Why can’t you just admit that you don’t love Myra as much as you claim to? The one you love isn’t even Myra. If someone else showed up back then, you would’ve probably fallen in love with them without hesitation and regarded them as your first love.” Heather had a knack for making psychoanalysis, which was precisely why it became increasingly clear to her that she would never have a pure relationship.

“Shut up!” Matthias didn’t want to listen to Heather anymore. He kept telling himself that he loved Myra deeply, but Heather described his love for Myra in such deplorable terms.

“Did I touch your sore spot?” Heather continued to provoke Matthias without fear of death.

Matthias’s face was frighteningly as black as thunder, and he was shrouded all over in intense gloom. When she noticed that there was something wrong with him, Heather kept him at an appropriate distance.