Chapter 190
190 Say It again, If You Dare
It had been raining heavily for several days in a row, and the rain washed the whole city clean. So, in
the morning after the rain, even the air was refreshing and light. Unfortunately, it onlysted a short
time. It was noon soon after the sun rose. After that, the city was
immersed once more in the endless slumber of summer.
Karl locked himself in his house for several days. Every day, the maid would go to his house to clean it.
By the fifth day, she finally couldn’t stand the foul smelling from the bedroom anymore. So, she
called Madison Xavier, Karl’s sister.
“Karl, hey!” Madison walked straight inside the house after she opened the door.
Karl lived in a two-t apartment. The door on the second floor was sealed to make it an open
bedroom, while the first floor was the
living room. Madison was there when the house was in construction. As she hoped, the apartment was
elegant and pretty in a refreshing
way.
When Madison saw the neat doorway, she praised in her heart that the maid had really worked hard.
She’d just gotten downstairs
and caught a whiff or something foul. She covered her nose and shouted downstairs, “Karl, don’t you
tell me you s’t the room! It f****g
stinks! Do you have monkeys in your house?”
However, no one responded to her.
Madison hesitated for a moment. She finally overcame the difort and nausea she felt and took the
first step downstairs. The
first floor seemed like a dump to her, with drinks, snacks, and other things strewn about on a coffee
table covered in takeout boxes.
“S**t! Are you f*****g ying dead? I already know you can call for takeout.”
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Madison then gol angry. She pulled the quilt with one hand and picked up a take-out box on the table
with the other and then said,
“Damn, do you believe I’ll put this on your head? I’m so damn busy…”
Before Madison could finish her sentence, she saw that the box had not been unpacked. Then, her
expression immediately changed.
She asked, “Karl, you haven’t eaten these days?”
She found that none of the takeaway boxes piled up on the coffee table had been opened.
However, what rmed her even more was that the person under the covers hadn’t moved at all, just
like he were dead. Madison
immediately lifted the entire cover. Then, she froze in surprise, staring at the toy on the bed and
couldn’t speak a single word. Eventually,
she yanked the toy out in anger and threw it on the floor.
“Karl Xavier, **k you!”
The stuffed dog on his bed looked very innocent. It rolled around on the floor, and the bell around its
neck rang for a few
Seconds.
Madison became furious, and then left Karl’s apartment with her bag. Her high heels made crisp
sounds on the marble floor.
Bastard, how dare you trick me! Madison thought to herself.
Peace and Anna had just finished lunch and were sitting in the pavilion downstairs at the hospital
chatting away,
“So, you rejetudbis proposal outright without even giving him a reason7”
Peace looked down and similed, as ifughing at hersell. She said, “What reason? Oh, I don’t think
that’s a reason. I think it might be
my own problem, anyway. You know, he’s a rich yboy who loves fooling around. So I’d better not
spend the rest of my life with
“But, Peace, he has changed. And, you have recovered. The doctor said that as long as you stay
emotionally stable, you’ll be fine,
right?”
Peace looked Anna seriously in the eyes and said, ‘Oh no, Anna, I’ll never recover, and there’s no such
thing as recovery to me. You
think I’m back to normal, but it just doesn’t hit me right now. I’m like a ticking time bomb now, and I
never know when I’m going to
explode. Plus, the years I was in the army were some of the most peacelul times of my life. I left there
because I wanted to experience life
in a different way. You see, nothing can trap me, let alone a person.”
Peace’s experience in the military taught her that people were not allowed to have emotions there.
Peace knew she couldn’t live
like this for the rest of her life, so she chose to leave and start a new life. She wished she could live her
life to the fullest.
“I think maybe it’s not that you don’t want Karl to trap you; it’s that you don’t want him to be trapped by
you.” Anna hit the nail on
the head.
Peace wasughing heartily. But when she heard Anna’s words, her expression froze.
When Anna saw this expression on her face, she thought she had said too much. Just as Anna was
about tofort Peace, she saw
her gaze go over her shoulder to a ce in the distance.
Anna looked in that direction and noticed a person outside the pavilion. However, she barely
recognized who the person was.
The man looked very unkempt. Not only had he not shaved his beard, but he had a stain on his white
shirt. The hot midday sun was
shining on him, making him look miserable.
Karl would dress up even if he had to attend a short meeting at the hotel. He would spray unique
perfume and put hair spray
on.
What happened to him? Anna thought to herself.
“Well, I’ll give you both some privacy.” Anna immediately stood up and prepared to leave.
“Don’t go.” Peace said. When Anna heard her voice, she realized that she was deliberately ying it
cool. This was unusual, because
Peace was never a cold person. She was passionate and enthusiastic, even when she argued with
people. Peace was like a fire, and was
ready to explode with great energy any time.
“I think I made myself very clear the other day. What are you doing now? Are you trying to make me
feel sorry for you and
sympathize with you? Wake up, we’re not in a TV show and you’re not Romeo.”
Karl walked toward them. His tall figure blocked the daylight and cast a shadow over them.
Anna took two steps to the side to avoid him. However, she still felt overwhelmed by the imposing aura
of both of them.
“No, I didn’t. Peace, I just wanted to confirm onest thing with you.”
“About what?”
Karl said angrily through clenched teeth, “I want to know if you really meant it when you said that. Do
you dare to say that to me
again? Hey, I’m telling you, I thought I was dead these days. The things you said to me broke my heart,
and made me feel like you stabbed
me in the heart with a knife. Peace, do you dare say those words to me again?”
Anna had an ominous feeling at that moment. She had known for a long time that Peace was very
good at talking tough with men.
Peace flirted with men regrly and had had at least a few dozen boyfriends over the past few years.
Some of them had fallen madly in
love with her, just like Karl had.
When Anna felt that Peace was about to say something cruel, she felt it was her duty to stop the
disaster from happening. So, she
smiled awkwardly and said, “Oh, I’m sorry to interrupt you. Well, before things get awkward between
you two, I just want to ask Karl one question. Do you really love Peace? What do you love about her?”
“What? Anna, you don’t have to ask him that question. I’m telling you, he doesn’t even like me. He has
a lot of women around him
and he likes to flirt with them.” Peace said, pretending to be nonchnt.
Karl frowned at her words. He sighed, as if he no longer cared about anything in the world.”How can I
not like you? Peace, I’ve
never met a woman who loves the world so much. You are as hot as fire and as free as the wind. You
have the most exquisite imagination;
you were born to be free and don’t want to be trapped. You shine brighter than even the most dazzling
fireworks.”
He said thuis in a loud voice, as if he was sure and contident of himself.
However, aller listening to his passionate confession, thest glimmer of light in Anna’s eyes finally
dimmed. With a silent sigh, she
said to Peace, “Well, you can say it now.”
All the characteristics that Karl likes about Peace are fake. In fact, she‘spletely different from what
he thinks she is. If he finds
that out, would he still like her? In any case, Peace is such a unique person.
Anna thought.
Peace lowered her voice and said, “Karl, you can go now. You know, I’ve slept with more people than
you have. We’re the same kind of people, and we treat rtionship casually. So whoever gets serious
first is going to lose miserably. Just leave me alone and don’t embarrass yourself.”