Chapter 0336
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Nicholas lowered the car window. The cool night breeze had dispersed some of the emotional tension. Nicholas rested one hand on the window frame as he spoke.
“I’ll think about it. The situation with Jasmine is complicated. After all, Claudia wronged her first.”
I was not surprised to hear him say this. He could only see the harm done to Jasmine, never the harm she inflicted on others. But even so, was guilt the only reason he was with Jasmine?
If he attended Jasmine’s “final dinner“, it would be like announcing to the world once again that Jasmine was his woman, and my earlier attempts to publicly dine with him would look like nothing more than a show.
However, Nicholas had already made his choice long ago. Even though he had forced me to stay by his side, he would never choose me.
I struggled out of his embrace. “Let’s go back.”
“You’re angry already?” Nicholas chuckled softly as he reached out to stroke my hair. “Why would you never get angry with anyone else but me? Is it because deep down, to you, I’m different from others?”
Different? Maybe so. After all, there was only one Nicholas Hawk in this world.
I could not erase my past or eliminate the feelings I once poured into him. In the past, I would have told him clearly that he was indeed different. But now, I said, “Nicholas, you’re overthinking it.”
The roadside was dim. In the unlit car, I could barely make out his face. I could only vaguely sense a feeling of dissatisfaction from him and a desire to make me yield.
Nicholas felt he had lost face. He could not get the satisfaction he wanted from Ariana. It was the kind of satisfaction he could not obtain no matter how forceful or coaxing he was. He wanted to possess her.
To Ariana’s surprise, he drove straight to a bar instead of taking Ariana home. The two of them sat at the counter like ordinary people. One drinking, one lost in thought.
When he was emboldened by alcohol and kissed her under the dim lights, he did not even know why he was doing it. He was delighted when the bartender cheered them on. He had even hugged Ariana proudly, proclaiming, “This is my wife.”
Nicholas’s enthusiasm tonight was overwhelming. When the driver came to pick them up, Nicholas eagerly pushed me into the car. He grabbed my chin and held the back of my head, not even bothering to raise the partition.
I quickly turned my face away to escape his kisses. “You’re drunk.”
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