Chapter 17
The guests‘ seats instantly exploded in excitement.
“Isn’t that Mr. Malfoy?”
“What did he just say? ‘Don’t marry him’? Is he trying to elope?!”
“Oh my goodness, the heir of the Watson family just woke up and caused a scene at the wedding…”
Whispers flooded in like a tide, Elodie tightly clenched her palm, almost feeling like she was dreaming.
Sebastian… How could he be here?
She watched as he walked towards her step by step, his suit disheveled, his eyes bloodshot, as if he hadn’t rested properly in a long
time.
“Don’t marry him, he repeated, his voice hoarse and almost unrecognizable.”
Elodie’s fingertips trembled slightly as she forced herself to calm down. “Sebastian, what are you here for?”
She could even hear the chill in her own voice: “Aren’t you afraid your beloved Sophia will be jealous?”
Sebastian’s breath caught in his throat, his eyes filled with intense pain.
“I mistook you for someone else, he said in a low, hoarse voice, as if suppressing countless emotions. “Lodie, three years ago, the person I
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liked was you, not Sophia. I have been blind and foolish all these years, loving the wrong person.
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“Do you remember three years ago at the charity gala when you climbed a tree to save a nest of birds? That day, I fell in love with you at first sight, but I mistook you for Sophia.”
Elodie’s pupils shrank.
She certainly remembered that day – she was wearing a white dress, climbing up a tree to rescue a precarious bird’s nest. When she came down, she saw a man standing behind the tree from a distance. Thinking he was just passing by, she hurriedly left.
So it was him?
Sebastian saw her stunned expression and thought she didn’t believe him. He continued urgently, “I have found out that Sophia has been deceiving me all these years. It was you, not her, who had a hard time in the Rowland family. She drugged your mother, causing her death, and also bullied you since you were young. She fabricated a report to make you lose your chance to study abroad. I’m sorry, I didn’t
investigate properly, I made you suffer…”
Every time he spoke a word, Elodie’s heart would ache sharply.
The grievances and pain of the past, when he casually brushed them off, as if saying “didn’t investigate clearly, mistook the person“, could erase all the pain she had endured over the years.
She suddenly laughed, but her eyes were cold: “So what? Just because you said you made a mistake in identifying the wrong person without investigating thoroughly, does that mean you can erase all the grievances I have suffered over the years?”
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Sebastian’s Adam’s apple bobbed as he spoke in a low, almost pleading voice: “Lodie, I’m sorry… I will spend the rest of my life making it up to you.”
“Make up for it? she sarcastically tugged at the corner of her lips. “Sebastian, do you remember how you treated me because of Sophia?“”
He stiffened all over.
She spoke word by word, as if cutting into his heart like a knife-
“At the auction, you bid unlimited for her, so I couldn’t get any of the items.”
“On the Big Sur Cliffs, you were willing to risk your life just to pick a flower for her.”
“You tattooed her name on your heart, only protecting her led to me being bitten by a Tibetan Mastiff, and you retaliated against me with ninety–nine lashes…”
Every time she spoke, Sebastian’s face grew a shade paler.
In the end, he could hardly stand, only able to tightly clench his fists, his fingernails deeply embedded in his palms.
“I’m sorry… his voice was hoarse, his eyes red and swollen, “Lodie, please… give me another chance.“”
He spoke rapidly, as if afraid of being interrupted: “I have already avenged all those who bullied you. I took care of Sophia and your father. Sophia married my sixty–year–old great–uncle, and I broke your father’s leg…”
Elodie looked shocked, but before she could speak, Emerson had already stepped in front of her with a cold expression on his face.
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“That’s enough! Mr. Malfoy, please show some restraint.”
The pain in Sebastian’s eyes was instantly replaced by a fierce look.
He forced himself to calm down and looked at Emerson: “Mr. Watson just woke up, how much emotion can he have with Lodie? Why make such a scene, as long as you are willing to let go, I will give you thirty percent of the profits from all projects of the Malfoy Group.”
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