Chapter 69
Chapter 69 Open Provocation
Faced with Ian’s apology and confession, Erin’s heart was thrown into chaos. She supported his body,
preventing him from getting any closer.
The anxiety and hesitation in her eyes boostedn’s confidence. He continued, “Erin, please just give
me onest chance to make amends! I swear, I don’t even love Tracy!”
Recalling his initial betrayal, Erin’s heart ached. She asked tearfully, “If you don’t love her, why did you
choose to betray me, our love, and our marriage?”
Ian grabbed her shoulders with both hands tightly and spoke urgently, “Don’t you understand? I’d only
gone to her in the first ce because all I had been thinking about at that time was giving you a taste of
your own medicine! You kept resisting and rejecting me, so I thought you didn’t love nor trust me!”
“You thought I didn’t love you? That I didn’t trust you?” Erin’s smile was pale and tired. “If I didn’t love
you, would I have married you? If I didn’t trust you, would I have given you everything I had then for
you to start your own business?”
Thinking about the past, Ian’s eyes filled with tears. He sighed. “Of course, I know that now. It’s just–
please just think of everything as my fault!”
Erin watched as the man she once loved admitted to his faults. Deep down, part of her had begun to
soften a little.
Ian looked at her titled face under the dim light. She was so beautiful, so delicate. Instinctively, he
tugged her chin toward himself and angled his face to kiss her.
Erin was still hesitating when her phone rang. It was Chandler!
Shocked, she pushed Ian away. The atmosphere earlier had gotten out of control. She almost forgave
lan! She med and cursed herself for being soft–hearted.
Walking toward the dressing table, she grabbed her handbag and walked directly into the bathroom,
locking the door behind
her.
Ian watched her coldly. He knew that Chandler must have called her.
In the bathroom, Erin pressed the answer button with some trepidation.
“Why is Ian in your bedroom, Erin?”
She was immediately rmed as soon as she heard his icy voice. How did he know that Ian was in her
bedroom?
She retorted, “You sent someone to follow me?”
Chandler was sitting in his car at that moment, a cigarette held between his fingers. The smoky halo in
thepartment he inhabited made his gaze seem dreamlike and hazy. He looked in the direction of
Erin’s window on the floor at which she was located, all the while speaking through thinned lips, “If I
hadn’t sent someone to follow you, you would’ve long betrayed me
“Chandler Frost, I already resigned, okay? I will not be your secret lover! I refuse to be! Whoever you
choose to love in the future is none of my business. I do not want nor wish to be someone else’s
recement!” Thinking about ire made her anger re up instantly.
“That deceitful young girl!” she thought.
Chandler knitted his brow when he replied. “Recement? Whose recement are you?”
Erin inhaled deeply. “Quit pretending. ire loves Matthew, and you love ire. You couldn’t have her,
so you found me and
proceeded to treat me like her recement. There. I’ve said it. Are you happy now? Admit it. If you’re a
fucking man, admit it—
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“Erin, listen to me. You are no one’s recement. I want you, and it does not have to do with any other
woman,
alright? I’m
giving you ten minutes toe downstairs. One minuteter, and I’ll upload your photo onto all the
major websites on the Inte!” Chandler hung up after that.
“You bastard–Chandler Frost, you–hey!” Erin was so mad that she hurled her phone against the
bathtub.
Jan’s voice sounded from outside the door. “Erin, are you alright?”
Erin immediately rushed over to check on her phone. She picked it up and noticed that apart from it
being a little wet, it was still functioning properly. She suppressed the rage within her and stalked out of
the bathroom. Without wasting any more time, she grabbed her clothes and returned to the bathroom,
locking the door again.
Ian watched her bring her clothes into the bathroom. He knew then that she was about to go out. When
Erin was dressed with her handbag at the ready, he grabbed her arm as she was about to open her
bedroom door. “You’re really going to see him, then?”
He had looked down from the window earlier and saw a ck Maybach parked downstairs. Even
though he couldn’t clearly discern the car’s license te, from the wealth radiating from the car alone,
Ian immediately knew it was Chandler’s car.
He was amazed that Chandler could drive overnight and reach Southwrok County this soon!
“Let go of me,n. It’s my business, and I’ll settle it myself!” Erin’s tone was evidently displeased. She
was not in the mood to deal with Ian right now, and her patience was running thin.
Erin answered expressionlessly, “I have no other choice.”
Chandler’s threats had been tried and tested many times. He had long found her most vulnerable spots
to target.
“Are you really willing to sink that low? How much did he pay you for you to act like his prostitute,
answering hismands and letting his wants eclipse your free will?” Ian’s eyes were red with anger.
He itched to rush downstairs to beat some sense into Chandler, but the mere thought of Chandler’s
identity and status stopped him from doing anything rash.
Erin hit his hand with her bag. The chains on her bag forced him to let go in pain.
“If you have the ability to prevent Chandler from finding me,n, by all means, go ahead. If not, shut
your fucking mouth. He has something on me, and I need to go-”
She opened her bedroom door and left. Ian didn’t run out after her. When the door was shut again, he
felt disappointment, and anger took hold of him. He could only watch as his ex–wife met up with
another man in the middle of the night. He no longer had the right to control her actions anymore.
Even if he had wanted to control her, he felt powerless in light of everything that had happened.
Erin.
What he hadn’t expected was that it had all been a trap. Ian now suspected that the one who set the
trap was none other than Chandler. He got up and walked to the window, pulling the curtains back
slightly to reveal the ck, jarringly conspicuous Maybach. His eyes gradually darkened with
bloodthirsty rage.
Meanwhile, in the car, Chandler felt the presence of a shadow. Even though the lights were off, a thin
ray of coldness streamed through the gap between the curtains.
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Chandler watched as Erin mounted the passenger seat. Without saying another word, he forcefully
pulled her over to him and attacked her lips with a storm of passionate kisses,pletely ignoring
Erin’s open protests.
It wasn’t until the curtains in the window upstairs had closed that Chandler nced provocatively in its
direction and drove
away.
In the bedroom, Ian watched as Chandler provoked him openly, yet he was powerless to do anything!
Angrily, he punched the wall next to the window, his knuckles fraying immediately.
Momentarily, his lips curled in a sly smile. “Chandler, you just wait and see-”
The car sped on the county roads. Chandler had yet to speak to Erin. She watched and contemted
his unpredictability, fear seizing her heart. He had kissed her as soon as she’d gotten into the car. Now,
however, he was driving over the speed limit with an icy exterior. She felt herself trembling with fear.
He had not spoken, and she dared not speak first either.
It wasn’t until they drove onto the highway that Erin couldn’t help but ask, “Where are we going?”
“Back to the city.”
“What? Now? I don’t want to go back! I still haven’t told my mom-” Erin’s head was on the verge of
exploding. Chandler’s selfish behavior was really suffocating her.
Chandler nced at her briefly. “What else? Do you wish to go back to sleep with Ian? Erin Lane, do
you really have the audacity to betray me?”