Cannot Bear To Let Go Of My Rich Wife
Chapter 246 - 258: Unintentional Care and Concern (7)

Chapter 246: Chapter 258: Unintentional Care and Concern (7)

In that moment, Isabel Smith felt as if she had encountered a bewitching creature from a legend, a virtual hallucination, as if time itself had come to a halt across the world.

He said... he lost... What did he lose?

Isabel didn’t quite understand the meaning behind his words, she simply stared into his eyes, not daring to move a muscle.

Percy Stanton’s slender, well-proportioned fingers slowly moved from her eyelashes to her cheeks, gently caressing them.

With a provocative touch of desire, chills ran down Isabel’s entire body.

"I always thought I would surely win this time. But I didn’t expect that, just like six years ago, I would lose to you once again, and worse still, be utterly defeated!"

When he said this, his tone was tinged with resentment, as if he hated her, or more so himself!

Yet, the next second, his dark eyes softened, flickered with an entrancing warmth, and his voice became gentle and emotional: "But, you know what? Isabel, this time, I lost willingly."

Willing to admit my loss to you.

Six years ago, you promised that you would be my dance partner at your adulthood ceremony, and come to pick me up at Starhaven University. You told me to wait for you.

I waited, from the moment you told me the news, my heart started to flutter with excitement. I felt those three days of waiting were slow and unbearable.

I couldn’t think straight nor pay attention in class. Finally, on your birthday, I dressed in a formal outfit specially flown in from France, and prepared your birthday gift in advance. Early in the morning, I got ready and waited for you to come find me.

But, from the early morning till the night fell, you never showed up.

I was like a stubborn fool, standing at the entrance of Starhaven University, unwilling to leave.

It wasn’t until I was exhausted and starving, refusing to give up, that my dormitorymates knocked me out, dragged me back to the room, and forced me to drink water and eat. It was then that I finally realized my own feelings.

I felt like I had been deceived.

I was furious, I was going crazy, I just wanted to confront you and ask why you would deceive me like this?

Everything that happened was like a dream.

And when I woke up, it was excruciatingly cruel.

In a short instant, I fell in love with you, only after I lost you.

How could someone like me, who is so proud, admit to such deception? So I pretended to be indifferent, pretended not to care, and thought time would bury everything.

But, as the days passed, until one day when I learned that you went to study in the United States, that long-lost anger became more vivid in my heart.

Along with the resentment and anger towards you, even more vivid was my love for you.

During the day, I seemed to live like a man who had never loved. At night, I would toss and turn thinking about you. In my deepest thoughts, I would go crazy, repeating your name, cursing you for being cold-blooded and irresponsible.

You see, at that time, I was cursing you so unfairly, and yet, like a fool, I was still waiting for you.

What a contradictory man, don’t you think?

As time went on, my longing to wait for you became an instinct in my life, as natural as breathing.

Even though, during those six years, I seemed indifferent and never sought you... It was because I wasn’t sure if you truly loved me.

I was afraid you saw me as a fleeting joke. So, six years later, when we met again, I appeared indifferent, but in my heart, there were countless emotions, constantly changing.

I want you to fall in love with me before I express my love for you.