Chapter 16
Thinking of this, Alexander felt sharp pain in his chest, like a knife twisting in his heart, making it hard to breathe
He endured the pain in his heart and stared at her profile, unconsciously raising one hand as if to grasp something, but he only clutched at empty air before Sophia turned to look at him.
Not noticing his strange gesture, her eyes seemed to hold something familiar, but looking again, there was nothing there. “Alexander, you’ve been here over two weeks now. What exactly do you want?”
Two weeks already? It felt much longer to Alexander.
He smiled bitterly, his voice hoarse. “Sophia, I thought a lot while you were gone. I thought about your suffering, about the terrible things I did, and finally only our past happiness remained in my mind. My conclusion was that I couldn’t let you leave. I truly realized my mistakes and that I really can’t function without you, so… Sophia, please, please give me a chance to make amends, okay? I’ll definitely make it up to you properly. We can go back to how things were, okay? Sophia, please…”
“A chance?” Sophia laughed sarcastically. “You already had your chance, but you didn’t treasure it. When you pursued me before, you also said to give you a chance to treat me well. I gave it to you, but what happened? I was devastated. Now you want another chance? I’m telling you there isn’t one. No more chances.”
She wasn’t someone who dwelled on the past. Since that chance had been wasted, she wouldn’t give another.
Alexander was completely crushed by these words, unable to straighten his back, his throat constricted. The sharp pain in his heart made every breath agonizing
Sophia delivered her final words. “This is where it ends.”
With that, she turned and left
Alexander seemed nailed to the spot, watching her gradually disappear.
When he could no longer see her figure, his vision was also shrouded in darkness, unable to see any light.
He didn’t know how long he stood there maybe minutes, maybe hours before finally regaining feeling in his limbs.
Alexander didn’t know if this counted as a final ultimatum, but he still couldn’t bring himself to give up.
But he could feel Sophia’s resistance to him. His heart was torn between two voices.
One told him not to give up and keep pursuing; the other told him to listen to Sophia and let it end.
They fought fiercely while Alexander remained unsure what to do.
He couldn’t imagine how dark mornings would be, waking up never to see Sophia again.
This internal struggle completely collapsed one morning.
By then, he’d gone two days without seeing Sophia at the B&B
Initially thinking she was just busy and they hadn’t crossed paths, by the second day he realized something was wrong.
Early that morning, he frantically ran to the front desk, urgently asking, “Where’s your boss?”
The receptionist, knowing he was pursuing her boss, was still startled by his appearance and didn’t speak for a while.
When Alexander asked again, she finally replied, “The boss sald she had business and would be away for a few days.” “Warte did star go?
“I don’t know either ludidn’t say ”
Alexander returned to his rou devastated, sitting on the bed with empty eyes staring into space.
She’d abandoned him and left again.
His inner fortress completely collapsed, and he felt himself falling into endless darkness,
After an unknown time, he took out his phone and called his assistant, who hadn’t heard from Alexander in ages since he left Manhattan
This time, a weak voice came through “Find out where Sophia went. I’ll send you her new identity information.”
After hanging up, Alexander sent the new identity details he’d discovered during his time here.
Though confused, the,
eassistant quickly found flight information
After receiving it, Alexander immediately cast aside his previous internal struggle, his mind filled with finding Sophia–he couldn’t let her escape again.
But actually, Sophia had just gone to visit a friend, with no intention of running away.
Her friend had been invling her over for a while, but she’d been busy during tourist season. Now that things were quieter, she’d gone directly.
Alexander was no longer related to her, so naturally she felt no need to report to him.
This led the sensitive Alexander to think she was trying to escape again.
Seeing Alexander at the hotel entrance, Sophia frowned with irritation
She thought, ‘Like a damn ghost that won’t leave me alone!
