The CEO’s Billion Dollar Bride
Chapter 475 - 454: Missing the opportunity to be in love with you for so many years!

Chapter 475: Chapter 454: Missing the opportunity to be in love with you for so many years!

A flash of emotion passed over Lina Miller’s face as Michael Gordon cradled it gently in his hand. A storm surged within her heart - after waiting for so long, she finally got the word she was yearning for.

Some love, when rooted deep down for a long time, becomes more difficult to forget, just like it has become a part of the body, merging with the blood and bones.

She always remembered that Mario Jensen loved Ivy Aretha. She knew when he fell in love with her. But it didn’t mean that loving her meant he no longer loved Ivy. It was just that he couldn’t love her any more!

In Lina’s heart, Mario Jensen was a man with responsibility and courage. Since Ivy married Michael Gordon, she became a deep love that he couldn’t have. By marrying her, Lina became his indispensable deep love.

Maybe now, he loved her a little more than Ivy, but she never thought there would be a day when Mario Jensen would say that he only loved her, even if she wished for it every day.

So when she heard him say those words, her heart was still shocked.

This kind of shock made her body tremble.

Her full lips quivered several times before she managed to blurt out, "Mario, are you saying that you’ve completely let go of Ivy? That you only love me now? Is that true?"

His pitch-black eyes were infused with a shade of expectation, spreading through her gaze. Mario Jensen felt as if the woman’s stare made his blood boil. A series of unfamiliar spasms in his heart grew increasingly intense, as if they could burst like a bullet from a gun at any moment.

There were signs of desire in his raging blood.

"Lina!"

Finally, Mario Jensen understood one thing: a single glance from the woman in his heart could instantly make his physical needs explode. All those excuses about keeping a woman pure for her own sake, about not wanting to touch her out of respect - they were all just lies!

To love someone is to want them at any moment - their heart and body included!

"Hmm, tell me, is it true? Give me an answer that will put my heart at ease!"

All of Lina’s attention was focused on this sentence. She was too obsessed and excited to notice the subtle changes in parts of the man’s body and his facial expressions.

Peace of mind?

Mario Jensen looked at her somewhat mockingly, thinking of himself.

"Lina, I’ve given you my whole being and my heart. What more do you want for peace of mind?"

His hoarse voice seemed to burst from his hot lips, looking deeply into Lina’s eyes with constant changes, "Yes, I once thought that I would only love Ivy for my whole life. Regardless of whether she loved me or not, I would still love her. But..."

"Lina, it’s just what I thought, and it cost me dearly!"

A heavy price?

Lina’s heart rose inch by inch, her ink-colored pupils tightening bit by bit: "What heavy price?!"

The tense voice brought out a stiff retort, making the air in the bedroom quiet down for a few moments. For a while, the two people’s heavy breathing sounded particularly harsh.

"I lost the chance to love you for so many years!"

Mario Jensen leaned down to gently kiss the woman’s forehead and cheeks. As their lips met, the man’s scorching heat seemed especially bright, "If I didn’t think that the youthful infatuation, the immature crush, was a lifelong obsession to pursue, how could I have missed you for so many years? In facing my feelings directly, I ought to thank Michael Gordon!"

Thank Michael Gordon?

Those words clearly made the woman’s face in his arms even more rigid!

After pausing for a moment, Mario Jensen continued, a quiet smile on his lips - somewhere between self-mockery and gratitude: "If not for Michael Gordon chasing after Ivy relentlessly the moment he laid eyes on her, trying every trick in the book to make her his, I would probably still think that I love her. Sometimes, you think you love someone not because you really do!"

"The old dreams of youth made a young me mistake a budding crush as love. As I aged, it became an undistinguishable obsession. If not for being separated for so many years and then reuniting, we might have long become the cleanest of friends!"

"In fact, ever since Ivy had a car accident and the hospital had no solution (nor did I), I gave up when Michael Gordon was able to save her life from the hands of death."

With his husky breath and heavy voice enveloping Lina’s entire sensory system, her mind became unreal in response to his every word. As she looked up into his deep, ink-like gaze filled with affection, it seemed to say, "I love you!"

So, he gave up so early!

"You know, during that time, I went to see her in the hospital once and never mentioned her to you again because I really let her go!"

Mario Jensen’s lips moved upward, looking directly at her eyes, "When I heard she was getting married, I was really heartbroken. After all, the old dream I had pursued for so many years shattered in an instant. So... I lost control!"

Old dream shattered?

Lina still picked out the crucial four words from his many words!

So that day, he got drunk like that - not because the woman he had always dreamed of deeply in his heart married someone else, but because the old dream he had obsessed about since childhood shattered?

Hearing this truth, Lina found that her feelings were like... oh, no, there were no feelings at all!

Only her trembling heart remained, as if the heavy dust on its tip had been completely shaken off. But before she could recover from this astonishing news, another even more shocking piece of news exploded in her ear!

"Not just losing control, I was disrespectful that night!"

At this point, the man solemnly called her, "Lina, I’m sorry, but I knew... all along... about that night’s incident."

Known all along?

Lina’s eyes widened in horror as the man’s heavy voice continued.

"I’ve always known what I was doing, and... I’ve always known that the person... was you!"

The shock grew stronger, and when the heart’s tolerance to outside shocks reached its limit, it was impossible to describe any of the body’s emotions. Only... tears!

Lina stood there, her entire body stiff and unresponsive. Tears fell silently from her surprised eyes, endless like a breached dyke, deeply imprinting themselves on Mario Jensen’s heart.

"It was just that I couldn’t admit to myself that I had done such a thing to you, so... I instinctively hypnotized myself, telling myself it was a dream. And then I called out Ivy’s name!"