Chapter 225

Chapter 225:

She nodded slowly. “Yeah. Cassian—he’s the rule. To men like him, women are like fast cars, new yachts, just something shiny and interesting to have. But only for a while. Then it gets old, and it’s time to move on. Yvaine says she’s over it, but I know she isn’t. Because the same thing happened to me p>

Does that mean you’re still not over it? Over Rhys? Ashton wanted to ask.

But he never asked a question if he wasn’t ready to hear the answer. She’d given him one when she was drunk in the car that day. But what if it changed now that she was sober? And he couldn’t promise her he’d never be like Cassian.

Not convincingly.

Words were cheap.

So instead, he stepped aside and let her pass.

She went into her room and closed the door behind her.

Ashton stood there for a long while, heart heavy, gaze fixed on the space she’d just left behind.

Then, as if shaking himself from a trance, he pulled out his phone.

He unblocked Cassian’s number.

[Keep your woman in check. If you make Mirabelle upset again, we’re done. I don’t care how long we’ve been friends—I won’t let you screw this up for me p>

I thought the episode was over.

I was wrong.

“Mirabelle, there’s… a big client down here!” Priya called up to me from the first floor.

I made my way down quickly, but when I saw Harper, the smile I’d been trying to keep on my face disappeared in an instant.

I slowed my steps, forcing myself to look at her without rolling my eyes. “What do you want p>

“Mirabelle, listen…” Harper gave me that annoyingly familiar smile and stood up, as if we were best friends. “There’s been a misunderstanding. I came to explain everything to you p>

“Don’t try to be friendly with me. We’re not on a first-name basis p>

Harper’s eyes filled with tears, and her voice softened. “I didn’t know Cassian had a girlfriend when we were together. If I had known…” I wasn’t buying it for a second.

“If you’d known, you still would’ve been with him. You’re not in love with him. You’re in love with the resources he gave you. You don’t care about his relationship status or whether you were the other woman p>

“That’s not true!” Her voice rose. “If I had known about Yvaine, I wouldn’t have agreed to date him. But… but now I’m in love with him. And he’s broken up with Yvaine, so… so it’s just bad timing p>

“Save it for someone who cares. You know, Yvaine’s my friend. You should’ve stayed away. Yet here you are, trying to act all innocent and play the ‘true love trumps all’ card. You really think I don’t see through it p>