Caleb is in AIG, although the whole company is now under Alinaan’s name, because Alinaan has never let the management company come over to take over, he is still here for the time being.
Chester said that nowadays Caleb has nothing under his name.
Last time, after knowing all those things back then, he even gave all his money to Alina as compensation.
It’s just that Alina has never been fond of these things.
Seeing Alina coming, the corners of the man’s mouth lifted in a bitter smile as he glanced at the ice-cold Chester, before turning his gaze back to Alina.
He uttered, “Let’s talk alone.”
“I have nothing to talk to you about.” Alina clenched her hands into fists.
The nails, cutting through her palm, were as if they were scratching at Caleb’s face, and she herself could not feel the slightest pain.
The two looked at each other, and Alina looked at him as if she were looking at an enemy.
Caleb, “But I want to talk to you.”
His voice was very soft.
There was a time when he would almost be hysterical every time he faced Alina, yet now all that was left was silence.
Alina’s breath has become unstable.
“Why do you have to be do this?”
He had, once, asked her such a question, just for the time when Emma hurt Alina.
He asked why she had to make things so bad.
“Abby, go out.” Chester looked dangerously at Caleb like a beast, and as long as Alina went out, another battle between him and Caleb is inevitable.
Yet Alina did not want to see Chester go into such a situation between him and Caleb again and again for her sake.
With effort, she suppressed the anger in her heart.
Looking to Chester, she opened her mouth, “You wait for me outside.”
“Abby.” The man’s tone was heavier.
Alina, “Go.”
Her voice was still soft.
Light and reassuring.
Chester did not want to go out, but in the end he did.
In the office, when there were only two people left.
Alina, “Why did you take the child away?”
“Don’t marry him.” The two spoke in unison.
Alina looked at the man at this moment, like wolf, dangerous in the extreme.
Alina didn’t answer the man’s question directly, but only stoically asked, “Where’s the child?”
Now, between them, even if the results of the child are still pending, it seems as if there is nothing else to talk about except the issue of the child.
Even though Caleb was acting calm, his breathing was heavier at the moment, “Why didn’t you tell me?”
All the calmness in his tone was shattered the moment he opened his mouth.
The unsteadiness of that breath was audible.
Alina, “Told you what? And then have Emma go through all the trouble of pretending to be sick again, and you believe it like a fool, and then save her with your daughter?”
That’s harsh.
Caleb looked at Alina with a complex look in his eyes.
What, exactly, had driven her to this state? There was a time when such vulgar words would never have come out of her mouth.
She was tumoured to be the standard aristocratic lady, yet now….
The bitterness at his eyes grew thicker and thicker with each distance.
In the end, all that remains is pain.
“I’m sorry.” It was about that incident three years ago, when Emma faked her illness.
Thinking of all the things that happened three years ago, Caleb could not wait to kill himself.
No one knows how he came to be after his marriage to Alina. He has been suppressing his feelings for her almost at all times.
At that time, there was a voice in his heart telling himself time and again that once he moved on to Alina, he would be doomed.
But what happens in the end?
The heart like a rebellious child, is completely out of control.
“Sorry?” When she heard those words, Alina laughed once again.
Previously Caleb had said he was sorry, and at this moment Alina was listening to this apology with the same reaction as before.
It just seems ironic and ridiculous.
Caleb looked at Alina, the calmness under his eyes shattered little by little.
He uttered, “Do you think that I have had a good time?”
The feeling of having to restrain himself over and over again without knowing the truth, does she understand?
Alina said icily, “You mean that your bad feeling is caused by me.”
“It’s you.”
“Even if it’s me, that would be your karma, to fall in love with a woman who will never turn on you.”
At the sound of the words, his brain was buzzing.
What did she say?
Never turn on him?
“What did you say?” At this moment, Caleb could barely hear his voice.
She said that she would never have her heart set on him?
In that case.
Alina, “Don’t you understand what I’m saying? Not to mention me, I don’t think any woman with bit of brains would fall in love with a man like you.”
Every word almost stabbed Caleb in the heart.
His eyes were on her face for a long, long time before Caleb finally spoke, “So, all those years, you never had a heart for me?”
When she heard this, Alina laughed.
“We’re just getting by with the marriage, what the hell is that about heart?” Alina replied sarcastically.
And these words, undoubtedly, tore Caleb’s heart, even more, into pieces.
Caleb did not know that at that time, no matter who was around Alina, as long as they were more attentive to her, they could enter her heart.
At that time, there was nothing left in Alina’s world. Her parents were gone, her grandmother was gone, and she herself was shattered.
At that time, if Caleb had been able to be nice to her at the beginning as he had pretended to be during that time of pregnancy, then it would have been easy to get her heart.
It is just a pity that he was only kind to Alina when Emma was seriously ill.
Even in the quickest possible time, he had Alina to realise what he was up to, missing the best time to get her heart.
Talking to her about heart now is ridiculous.
“Caleb, I feel that you are quite pathetic.” Alina looked at Caleb sarcastically.
At this, Caleb’s heart smothered with pain and choking.