Standing Before Love (Myra and Sean) novel Chapter 645

As the two cousins stared at each other, Matthias held his breath. He could see that, due to the sharpness in Heather’s gaze, distress was already starting to show on Everly’s face. Even he himself could not bear it.

“I must have been very annoying when I was young,” Heather sneered. Now that she had a better understanding of Everly, she was shocked and even felt a little bit hateful.

She never minded the people who were enemies of her from the beginning, like Blake Langston. At worst, they would fight to the death. However, she hated those who acted kindly toward her in the beginning and turned around to stab her in the back. In short, Everly’s behavior had greatly disappointed her.

Not only had Everly hurt Heather, but she was putting all of the Langston Family in danger. Her selfish actions crossed the line, much more than Blake’s idiocy did.

Meanwhile, Everly offered her own derisive sneer, feeling like Heather was hinting at something. “That’s not possible, Heather. You were always the most welcomed one in the family.”

At that, Heather’s smile grew even more frigid. “The family is scared of me. I’m the least welcomed one.”

It wasn’t proper for Matthias to interrupt but Heather’s pointed words genuinely made his heart ache. He stared at her profile, thinking about how she wore callousness around her heart like a shield, preventing people from getting too close.

Nevertheless, she turned to him now and looked at him imperiously. “Did you need something?” Her frustration was bleeding over and she snapped at him even though he had done nothing wrong.

Of course, this was not an impulsive decision. The truth was that Heather had long planned to allow Everly to observe everything yet not be able to confirm the truth, so that the latter could feel a sense of urgency and start leaping to her own conclusions.

At this moment, Everly’s mind was, indeed, filled with doubt. She didn’t know why Heather acted so venomously toward her. Her cousin’s rage was coldly cutting and so fierce that it was hard to bear.

Yet, Heather did not intend to give Everly too much time to mull things over. As Matthias finished stammering the reason he was here, she immediately had him go outside with her.

After they walked out of the living room, she suddenly said, “So, you cower away from telling me the real reason you’re here and only give me a bunch of overbearing excuses. Why are you becoming more and more of a coward, Matthias?”

Startled, he looked at her, having no idea what he did wrong or why he was being lectured by her.

“I missed you so I came to find you,” he said as he reached out to take her hand.

“No PDA. This is my house,” Heather said with displeasure. Unfortunately, he was becoming bolder and bolder and much to her regret, her words only provoked him.

“Why don’t we go to my house, then?” He smiled suggestively. When Matthias thought of the scene that could await him at home, he felt eager.

Unfortunately, she shrugged his hand off and eyed him coldly before she said expressionlessly, “Stop throwing a fuss. I’m not in the mood.”

Upon hearing that, he looked at his abandoned hand in resignation. Once again, he was being cruelly rejected—it seemed he would still need to put quite a bit of effort into seducing her.

“Have you been alright lately?” he asked with concern, as her mood had been simply too odd and unpredictable these days.

However, she didn’t feel like elaborating or answering such an upsetting question. As she was being spied on, she could not say too much to him.

“I’m fine. I just haven’t felt like seeing you much.” Apart from using her words to hurt him, she had no idea how to chase him away. Right now, she simply had no way of facing him calmly.

Long used to her venomous tongue, Matthias did not fear it. Instead, he only laughed, wanting to cheer her up a bit.

In truth, she hated it when he behaved like that. He would never know, but the guilt she felt whenever he did it surpassed the love that surged up in her.

“Did someone make you unhappy?” he asked her carefully now, quite used to her little temper tantrums.

She gave him an exasperated look in response. Does he think I am as petty as an unreasonable child?

What she didn’t notice herself, perhaps, was how tolerant he had been of her unreasonable moments during this period.

“Don’t come looking for me during this time, Matthias,” she informed him sternly.

At this moment, Matthias couldn’t help but sober up. The fact that she said that was not good news. Women were so difficult to understand, especially Heather.

“It seems I’ve angered you somehow,” he said. After all that, he felt that the problem turned out to be him.

Upon hearing that, Heather felt like slapping her hand against her forehead. Why is it so difficult to get through to him? Sometimes, it’s so tragic that it is very nearly funny. Internally, she was still thinking about how to get rid of him and no matter what motives he had, she could not get in contact with him ever again.

Since he was jumping down another rabbit hole, she had to change tactics. Why are men so difficult to teach? she grumbled to herself. Out loud, she said, “If you truly don’t wish to anger me, then I beg you to please listen to me.”