Chapter 490
Matthias released Heather from his embrace while trying to calm himself down. His behavior on this
day was too abnormal; how could he hot-headedlye to Heather while his life was still in a mess?
Still, he showed no signs of forgiveness after bing much calmer. “Now that you’ve ruined my
rtionship, you have to pay the same price.”
Matthias couldn’t stay calm whenever it urred to him that Heather would be together with another
man, for he would never allow her to be happy with someone else. He was fixated on Heather the
same way he was fixated on Myra. No matter what, Heather had to be bound to him; even if their
rtionship was an unhappy one, they would stay unhappy together.
“That’s boring,” Heather uttered indifferently. The more Matthias spoke in an imperative tone, the more
she wanted to oppose him. No one could boss Heather around, and she would not show signs of
weakness even in the face of Matthias’s domineering behavior. Now that the guilt she felt toward
Matthias had vanished without a trace, the only thing left was her fight against him.
ording to Robert, Matthias would never be an ally of the Langston Family. Even though it
wasn’t necessary to make an enemy, Heather would never give way again and again if Matthias
provoked her repeatedly. “Your rtionship isn’t ruined at the hands of me, but at the hands of yourself.
Didn’t youe to Bradfort City for Myra?” She was confrontational. Since Matthias wanted to keep on
deceiving himself and others, she wanted him to wake up to reality.
“Yes, that’s right,” Matthias answered without the slightest hesitation.
Meanwhile, Heather sneered at the note of certainty in Matthias’s voice. The night breeze brought a
chill to the air in this barely inhabited neighborhood, and she wasn’t afraid of being seen under the dim
streetlight. Even so, she didn’t want to continue being locked in a stalemate here with Matthias
anymore. “If you really came for her, you should’vee a long time ago. So many years have passed,
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yet you put it off until Myra gave her heart to someone else and is about to marry her Mr. Right,” she
said sarcastically. She wanted to go back into her house right now, but she knew from the way Matthias
looked unwilling to give up that she had to stand in the night wind for a while longer. When she saw that
he had been swayed by her words, she followed up her sess by saying, “Stop fooling yourself and
others. You came to Bradfort City for the sake of your interests, and Myra is nothing but a perk.” She
analyzed Matthias’s thinking in a leisurely manner. Since he was unwilling to confront his innermost
thoughts, she would let him have a good look at his profit-seeking self.
“I have always wanted toe to Bradfort City, but I couldn’t find a chance toe here because of
the Locke Family’s strict family rules.” Matthias continued to defend himself, but he looked a lot more
clear-headed and no longer sounded as aggressive and belligerent as before.
Heather didn’t allow Matthias to find any excuses, though. “That’s an excuse. No matter how hard it is,
one would go to their beloved person as soon as possible.” Matthias kept saying how much he loved
Heather, but that wasn’t the way he conducted himself at all. Heather wasn’t a foolish girl in love, and
she was aware of many things deep down.
“I couldn’te out; I was constantly under surveince by the Locke Family in Tasnia City, and they
were watching my every move,” said Matthias, continuing to talk about his difficulties. Now that he was
he said.
“Would the Lockes have killed or locked you up over the fact that you stealthily ran away to Bradfort
City?” Heather stared hard at Matthias and saw the evasiveness in his eyes. Men always liked to make
excuses for themselves. They loved themselves the most, but they kept iming and pretending that
they were deeply in love.
“I was in a really tight spot while living with the Locke Family. I couldn’t make any mistakes.” Matthias
glowered at Heather, for he couldn’t understand why the conversation had changed into an
interrogation against him instead.
“In the end, you’re still after the position of the Locke Group’s president.” Heather smirked
contemptuously. Matthias looked absolutely pathetic, for he even wanted to deceive himself. Love was
nothing in his eyes, and his love for Myra was only an obsession caused by a missed opportunity back
then. Did Matthias understand what love was? To some extent, he was even more cold-blooded than
Heather. His inner pursuit of profit was endless, so how could such a person, who was blinded by
greed, have the right to talk about love?
Matthias blew up like a cat that had its tail stepped on. “I did nothing wrong. The position is mine in the
first ce!”
“On one hand, you want to please the Locke Family and sessfully be the Locke Group’s
president. On the other hand, you want to have a pure rtionship. What a nice dream you have.”
Heather stared icily at Matthias. She could no longer tell whether someone like him was detestable or
pathetic.
“I want to live better and have more power. What’s wrong with that? A man can only give his woman
the best of everything by standing on the apex!” It never urred to Matthias that he was wrong. He
did all of these for Myra’s sake; he was waiting for the day when he could meet her again and give her
everything she wanted.
“In other words, do you mean that those men who fail to reach the apex don’t deserve love? Your idea
is so ridiculously childish. Love cannot be measured with power or money; it stems from the rawest
flutter of the heart,” argued Heather usibly, but she could only talk the talk. In reality, she wasn’t any
better than Matthias, which was why they were the same kind of people. Being incapable of love, they
predicted the future of their rtionships and weighed the pros and cons like how they made
predictions about the stock market. Even if there was true love, they wouldn’t be blessed with it, for
they were the ones who abandoned love first. “Why can’t you just admit that you don’t love Myra as
much as you im to? The one you love isn’t even Myra. If someone else showed up back then, you
would’ve probably fallen in love with them without hesitation and regarded them as your first love.”
Heather had a knack for making psychoanalysis, which was precisely why it became increasingly clear
to her that she would never have a pure rtionship.
“Shut up!” Matthias didn’t want to listen to Heather anymore. He kept telling himself that he loved Myra
deeply, but Heather described his love for Myra in such deplorable terms.
“Did I touch your sore spot?” Heather continued to provoke Matthias without fear of death.
Matthias’s face was frighteningly as ck as thunder, and he was shrouded all over in intense gloom.
When she noticed that there was something wrong with him, Heather kept him at an appropriate
distance.
“You’ll pay the price for what you said today.” Matthias looked at Heather frostily with an iciness in his
eyes that sent a chill down her spine. Just as she thought he would make the next move, he stiffly
turned around and left right away. Heather looked at Matthias from behind, and she was soon lost in
thought; she didn’t know what he was up to again.
After Matthias left, Heather suddenly lost the mood to go back to the Langston Residence, so she
wandered alone in the neighborhood for a long time. When she looked above her head, she saw that
the light was still on in Leon’s apartment. After a moment’s hesitation, she decided to go to his ce.
Leon hesitated for a while when he heard the doorbell ringing. Who woulde to him in the middle of
the night? After all, he didn’t know anyone in Bradfort City except Heather. “Who is it?” he asked from
behind the door.
“It’s me,” Heather replied casually.
Leon was astounded. Why hasn’t Heather gone back after such a long time? He pulled the door open
at once before asking Heather outside the door, “Did you leave something important here?” He couldn’t
think of another reason why Heather hadn’t left.
“No, I didn’t.” Heather squeezed herself through the door. Leon looks a little dumb sometimes; he
doesn’t even know how to leave a gap for me, shemented inwardly.
“In that case, why would you…” Leon pointed a finger at Heather before shifting it somewhere else.
Since he had no idea what she wanted to do, he felt extremely curious.
He looked at Heather in bewilderment. It was apparent from her expression that something was wrong,
but he couldn’t tell specifically what it was. In short, her behavior was so strange that he forgot to
rejoice inwardly. In any case, Heather hade when he was unable to sleep.
“I’ll sleep here tonight,” Heather said apathetically.
Leon looked at Heather incredulously, and the corners of his mouth twitched as if she was telling some
fairy tale. “It’s improper for man and woman toe into direct contact, so it’s not so good for a man
and a woman to sleep together.” He pretended to hold himself tightly in a defensive posture as if
Heather was here to molest him.
“You’ll sleep on the sofa.” Initially, Heather had nned to sleep on the sofa by herself. After all, Leon
was still recovering from jetg—he would have even more difficulty trying to fall asleep if she let him
sleep on the sofa. However, since he was being so shifty, she decided to leave him to sink or swim by
himself since this guy deserved some suffering.
Leon was dissatisfied by this and promptly followed Heather, but she quickly entered the room and
closed the door right away, shutting him outpletely. He touched his nose and bared his teeth at the
tightly shut door with a look of displeasure. “What a petty woman,” he muttered in dissatisfaction. As
expected, he shouldn’t dream of staying in the same room with her, for he could only sleep on the sofa.
Now that it would be even harder for Leon to fall asleep, his body ached all over as hey on the sofa.
He stared at the ceiling in boredom, not knowing if Heather was asleep at this moment. He shifted his
gaze to the door again, but there was no noise behind the door. Leon wondered if Heather had suffered
some wrongs and was secretly crying in the room, but he quickly shook his head after imagining the
scene for a moment. It’s probably impossible for Heather to cry; I might not even get to see her
shedding tears as long as I’m alive, he thought to himself.
It was alreadyte at night, yet Leon was unable to sleep. There were a few times when he wanted to
knock on the door or even prise the door open, for Heather seemed so abnormal that he thought he
should show some care for her. Still, he hesitated for a long time, for he knew that thest thing she
needed was someone else’s solicitude for her. This woman was so stubborn that she wouldn’t speak
out even when she was wronged. What a frustrating person she is, he thought to himself.
Just as Leon was in two minds, the tightly shut door suddenly swung open from the inside. Leon was
startled by this; he sat up on the sofa and looked up to see Heather’s face with her makeup removed.
Without any makeup on her face, she looked so tender that Leon instantly felt a desire to protect her;
he was defenseless against such a side of her.
However, the expression on Heather’s face was so stiff and not at all lovely even when she was
wearing Leon’s yellow duck pajamas. She looked like a kid wearing adults’ clothes in secret, for Leon’s
pajamas were toorge on her. After all, Leon had a tall and sturdy build.
Heather went to the fridge on her own and pulled its door open. After taking a bottle of imported cognac
from inside the fridge without looking at its brand, she turned around and suggested to Leon directly,
“Would you like a drink?”
Leon squinted at the bottle of imported cognac in Heather’s hand before shaking his head. “This is too
strong for girls like you.” He thought to himself, Heather probably has something on her mind; she looks
like she wants to get drunk.
“Are you afraid that you’ll drink yourself unconscious? You can’t hold your liquor as good as me,”
Heather replied disdainfully. Even the slightly upturned right corner of her mouth had a hint of sarcasm
to it.