As Elaine looked at Mandy’s unnatural frightened expression, she too felt terrified. She nodded, “Oh,
oh, I see. I’m sorry, Mandy. I won’t touch it.”
Mandy stared at Elaine for a full half-minute before she relaxed. She breathed heavily and apologized
with a soft voice, “Elaine, I’m sorry. I was too…impulsive…I overreacted a bit…I actually…Sorry,
Elaine…”
Elaine waved her hand and forced a smile, “It’s fine, it’s fine. I was nosy. You put that photo frame
away. I won’t look at it again.”
Mandy twitched the corners of her mouth. She looked sorrowful. She was stunned for a moment before
she carefully put the photo frame back on the cabinet.
For a short while, both of them stopped talking.
The “photo frame fright” just now had frightened both of them.
Elaine even began to regret coming to Mandy’s house.
It seemed that Mandy’s mental state was still terrible.
She shouldn’t have come to bother Mandy.
“Mandy, why don’t…I leave first, you take a good rest…”
Elaine spoke hesitantly.
Mandy’s eyelids jerked, and her eyes instantly turned red. She held Elaine’s arm and said miserably,
“Elaine…don’t go…I know I was too aggressive just now…actually I didn’t want to be so mean to you…
I just…have this disease…whenever it involves him, I suddenly can’t control myself…Can you forgive
me? Don’t go. Stay with me for a while.”
Elaine looked at the pitiful Mandy and also felt soft-hearted. She nodded, “Okay. I was afraid I’d affect
your rest.”
Both girls laughed again.
Mandy showed Elaine her photo albums since she was little. It seemed that Mandy grew up as a girl
with a good temperament and an introverted personality.
When she was very young, she already had a smile that looked prim and proper.
…
She’s not at all like Elaine, who was silly as a child. All her photos looked unsightly, either with a big
grin or an unpleasant smile.
“You’re so elegant,” Elaine flipped through the photo album and couldn’t help but admire it.
“Well, yes. Since I was little, that’s what the adults said about me. Maybe, it was my being too elegant
that harmed me.”
Mandy sighed with a bitter look on her face.
Elaine looked at Mandy in surprise.
Mandy tried to hold back, but she spoke anyway, “When I was in university, I was known as the Ice
Beauty and had very few friends. They all said I acted nobly.
Later, a man confessed to me while I was eating. He insisted on asking for my phone number. Then he
began wooing me madly.
To be honest, he’s handsome and considerate. He’s a great lover.
As he wooed me so madly, I slowly fell in love with him. Then, I moved in with him without a second
thought.
However, he gradually became distant from me because of my personality, which he found depressing.
He said that he was always careful when he was with me. He felt depressed when he was with me.
I didn’t want to leave him. I secretly switched all my contraceptive pills to vitamins. And then, without
his knowledge, I got pregnant.
When he finally broke up with me, I told him that I was pregnant. He was shocked. He actually
pressured me to have an abortion.
I was really devastated. I had a child with him, and he could be so cruel towards me. My heart was
broken.
So I commit suicide. The scar on my wrist is the mark of my suicide.
Later, I was resuscitated, and the baby was gone. He gave my family a lot of money. The amount of
money was astronomical.
However, I lost him after this. I became devastated ever since because I can’t get him out of my mind.
Really, I think of his bright smile whenever I go to bed at night. I love him so much, but he doesn’t love
me anymore.
In those frames are photos of him and me together.
I dare not look at them. If I look at them, it hurts my heart like hell.
…
However, I can’t bear to throw them away.
So, I covered them all.
Elaine, am I an idiot who can’t let go?
I am useless, right? He doesn’t love me anymore, but I’m still stuck in the past.
Sob…”
As she spoke, Mandy leaned on Elaine’s shoulder and cried out in pain.
Elaine felt distraught as she listened. She couldn’t imagine that such a tragic story would happen to
Mandy.
If Emmett ruthlessly abandoned her, and if she had then accidentally fallen in love with Emmett,
wouldn’t she have been in the same miserable situation as Mandy?
It’s frightening just thinking about it!
She must not fall in love with Emmett!
She didn’t want to become this kind of sad, pathetic, abandoned woman.
Elaine patted Mandy’s hand and advised,
“The thing about relationships is that both of you have to be in love with each other. You can’t force it.
Since he doesn’t love you anymore, you won’t get your happiness even if you hold on to him.
It’s over, so let it be over.
Maybe this is fate. Your happiness is not him. Your happiness is waiting for you ahead.
How can you meet the one who is waiting for you if you don’t move forward?
Mandy, don’t be so heartless, letting the one who is waiting for you keep foolishly waiting in the future.”
Mandy’s sobbing subsided a little.
She fell into deep thought.
Elaine then remembered something and asked Mandy,
“Mandy, is this man call Kayden?”
“Kayden? Who’s that? I don’t know him.”
Mandy opened her eyes wide, looked curious, “Who is Kayden? Why would you ask that?”
Elaine smiled stiffly, “Oh, nothing, nothing. Just a casual question.”
Oh my God, there were clearly pictures of Mandy on Kayden’s computer!
No way…Elaine suddenly thought of a possibility!
Kayden worked under Emmett, which means that the woman in Kayden’s computer could be Emmett’s
ex-girlfriend!
Gosh…
…
When she thought that Emmett had once been together with Mandy, Elaine immediately felt so
disgusted.
Emmett is so disgusting! So disgusting!
Elaine stayed at Mandy’s house for another hour and then left.
When you are with someone who is not in a good mental state, your mood will also be affected. You
will also become gloomy.
As she walked down the street, she couldn’t help but sigh.
…
Emmett called Lucas.
“Emmett, you’ve been having so much luck with women lately, you still have time to call me? I thought
you’d forgotten about us brothers. You’ve been having great nights lately, haven’t you?”
Lucas did not dare to mention Elaine to Emmett. He dared not mention Emmett in front of Hazal even
more.
If he accidentally mentioned Emmett just once in front of Hazel, he would surely suffer Hazel’s brutal
abuse!
Hazel hated Emmett to the bone.
No matter how much Lucas put in a good word for Emmett, all he got was getting beaten brutally by
Hazel.
Emmett’s face turned long. He spun his swivel chair, “Lucas, stop talking nonsense. And you don’t
mention my recent scandal. It’s quite boring. Are you free this afternoon? Go with me to the shooting
range and have a break.”
Lucas frowned, “Alas, there’s no time for that. Brother, I apologise in advance. Don’t I have to pick up
Hazel this afternoon? Isn’t she on that course you arranged? I promised to go shopping with her
tonight. Maybe some other time, I’ll invite you next time.”
Emmett cursed, “Shit, she has become your whole world already? Bastard!”
In fact, Emmett felt bad in his heart.
In fact, he would love to stick around Elaine, doing this and that with her.
Didn’t matter it was shopping, watching a movie, drinking beer at a stall, as long it was with Elaine, he’ll
follow her no matter what.
But…
He couldn’t do that now…he couldn’t even do what he wanted to do.
…
“Mr. Smith, any orders?”
Jasper said in a formal voice in his office.
“Jasper, cancel your work schedule this afternoon and accompany me to the shooting range to
practice.”
Jasper was startled. He was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said, “Okay!”
Going to the shooting range again. But this time, so many things had changed.
At one time, Emmett, Lucas, Oliver, and Jasper were so close that four of them did everything together.
But now…
Oliver became a rival in love. Lucas was busy with his love affair. Now, he and Jasper were the only
ones left to shoot here.
Jasper secretly glanced at Emmett next to him, somewhat speechless.
Emmett seemed very grumpy and bad-tempered these days.
Now, the whole company knew that their boss was on a rampage.
None of them dared to meet Mr. Smith.
Emmett was very tall and had long, straight legs.
And his body, needless to say, was the fittest it could be because he trained in martial arts for a long
time.
Not just women would be smitten when they see it, but even he, a man, couldn’t help but admired it.
Moreover, Emmett had the face of a movie star, extremely gorgeous.
Emmett looked like his deceased mother. He was told that his mother was Miss World, beautiful like an
angel.
Unfortunately, beauties always have a miserable life. Emmett’s mother passed away when he was very
young.
Emmett shot quickly. Needless to say, with his current shooting skills, he could hit the bull’s eyes for
every shot without needing to aim.
However, he failed today.
When they saw the results, even Jasper was shocked.
“No way. Emmett, I did not misread, right? You actually had two bullets off target? How can that be!
How is this your level?”
Jasper even rubbed his eyes to show his shock.
Emmett indignantly threw away his gun. He walked back to the sofa where he was resting, sat down,
took over the cup of water and drank it.
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