Standing Before Love (Myra and Sean) novel Chapter 699

Matthias attempted to chase after Ether moments later, but she was already far gone. With his pajamas on and a messy hair, he looked rather chaotic.

After giving Evan a threatening glance, he then ordered, “Bring her back. She hasn’t even put her shoes on.” After all, Matthias felt that he was also at fault and could not just let Ether go without apologizing.

However, Evan thought it was better not to chase after her. From his understanding of Matthias, the man didn’t like to owe anyone. Although he didn’t like being intimate with women, there was still a sense of chivalry in him.

With Ether’s departure this time, it would make Matthias even more guilty. In other words, it would secure a follow-up meeting for the two of them.

Evan was obviously reluctant to go after her, so he said to Matthias, “She’s far gone, sir. There’s no way we can catch up to her.”

Since he didn’t want to go out the house with his pajamas on, he could only gaze at Evan and perturbedly uttered, “I really hate it when you make such decisions on your own. Clean up the mess you’ve made.”

Although his words were rather amiable, his tone was nowhere near friendly as it carried a strong, threatening vibe to it.

“What else could I have done, sir? If only you’re able to see how scary you look whenever you’re drunk… You kept crying for Heather, but how could I have brought her to you? As such, I had no choice but to bring Ether to you instead,” he answered boldly. Since things had already gone south, he was prepared to accept whatever atrocities that cast upon him.

“Shut up.” Matthias grew more infuriated as Evan was pushing his limits.

Since he knew that he had triumphed over his boss, Evan looked at Matthias smilingly without sensing the hint of danger from the latter.

“There’s plenty of fish in the sea, so why dwell on just one, sir?” said Evan as he tried to advise the other man. If what Matthias said was true about Heather marrying someone else, there was no point in waiting for her.

“Shut up. You’re fired,” said Matthias. It was rare of him to spit such cruel words.

However, Evan merely grinned upon hearing that. He hadn’t expected things to transpire this way, for Matthias even suggested firing him. Right then, his grin turned into a sarcastic smirk. Unlike the Matthias he once knew, the person before his eyes had certainly lost his ambitions and assertiveness ever since knowing Heather.

“Look at what the woman has turned you into, Matthias. Do you realize how embarrassing you’ve become?” Previously, Evan expected Heather to bring joy and happiness into Matthias’ life, but that wasn’t the case at all. On the contrary, all he received from her was pain and demise.

Because of her, Matthias became more and more unhinged—he was even willing to ruin his future. Naturally, Evan couldn’t bear to see him gradually turn into another person for Heather’s sake.

Matthias had once proposed to Evan about expanding his business worldwide, and the latter had high expectations and hopes for him. However, Heather had become the only thing on his mind right now, and all the plans about going global had been thrown out of the window.

“It’s none of your business,” Matthias answered as he shot Evan a malicious gaze. Since they were always synergistic, no one could remember the last time they had a fight.

Now that they were arguing because of Heather, Evan felt deeply disappointed.

Indeed, love is lethal.

Anyone who fell under love’s spell would be so blinded that they could only think of the person they adored, effectively ignoring their friendships and blood ties.

With that, Evan turned back to leave. If his departure failed to wake Matthias up, perhaps there was really no more hope for him!

At this very moment, Evan felt especially remorseful for becoming Matthias’ wingman in his pursuit of Heather, and he blamed himself for allowing his boss to say those affectionate words to her.

The very things he couldn’t do himself were exactly what he pushed Matthias to do. Why did he have to turn him into a love saint?

Now that he thought about it, everything was ridiculous. After all,there were so many obligations Matthias had apart from his love life. Since he possessed the potential of becoming an influential businessman, Matthias shouldn’t be wasting so much time and effort on Heather.

Besides, it didn’t feel like Heather was right for him; given how she was tormenting him, even Evan wanted to cry out for him.

As he watched Evan’s decisive turn, Matthias suspected that he had been planning to leave him earlier. Since he knew that Evan had his own expectations for him, he was fully aware that a big part of his success was due to Evan’s assistance.

However, his impulsiveness from earlier had caused him to say such absurd words to the latter. Although he was somewhat regretful about it, Matthias would not beg for him to stay. Nonetheless, Evan’s departure wasn’t entirely bad because he would have to leave either way—Matthias would soon become an ordinary man, after all. Naturally, an ordinary man did not require a butler.

As he turned his head around, Matthias couldn’t tell whether Evan had turned back to look at him. Regardless, the latter’s departure had been pushed forward, and that contributed to the progress of his plans.

Sadly, Heather was a key factor to his ultimate goal, but she was no longer with him. Now that she had chosen somebody else, he didn’t know what else he could utilize to strive for Heather’s return. If he didn’t fight for her, would she really get married to Leon?

Since he was afraid that his fear would turn into reality, he didn’t dare to ponder about it any further. He initially had no clue whether he was on the right path, but now, it seemed like he was going the wrong way based on how everything was crumbling down.

If I can’t even keep the woman I love, what’s the point of having more plans? Matthias couldn’t stop thinking about the woman.