Melanie’s eyelashes lifted slightly. “I have nothing to do with them anymore. Do whatever you want.”
Eugene sized her up with his deep eyes. There seemed to be some kind of emotion brewing in them. He took back the USB before nodding. “Okay.”
Melanie nodded. “Anything else?” She did not particularly like LeapCo or Eugene right now.
Eugene paused. Then, he raised his eyebrows and said coldly, “I told you before that if you want to stand at the top, you have to harden your heart to everyone.”
His eyes were dark, suppressing emotions Melanie could not understand. “But you never took my advice to heart.”
Melanie looked puzzled for a moment. She thought she heard Eugene sigh.
It sounded almost like a fleeting feeling of helplessness.
No, she must have misheard him. Melanie pursed her lips and walked out of the office.
Melanie returned to the villa for the second time that day. When she got back, Xander and the others were preparing a barbecue. Reny greeted her with a bottle of Coke. “You're back just in time. | was going to call you and ask when you’d be back.”
Melanie felt as if she were suffering from motion sickness. Her head was spinning. “You guys can go ahead without me,” she said in a small voice.
With that, she went upstairs. Reny watched her go, hesitant. Adeep and charismatic voice came from beside her. “Let her rest.”
Reny turned to look at Xander. When she saw that there was no expression on his face, she could not help but remind him softly, “Boss, | can tell that Melanie’s been going through a rough time recently. Try to show her some concern when you have the time.”
After saying that, she added, “Don’t wait until she ends up with someone else. Then you'll really regret it.” Xander looked up at her, pondered for a moment, and stood up silently. Melanie slept in a daze. She felt like she was in a dream.
Eugene’s voice kept ringing in her ears. “I told you before that if you want to stand at the top, you have to harden your heart to everyone.”
Melanie remembered Eugene’s words very clearly. She could even remember when he had said them. At the time, his relationship with his family was beginning to improve, ever so slightly.
Eugene had to go home for Stella’s birthday, and Melanie could not accompany him because she suddenly had to work overtime at the company. She could only pick him up after her work
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The Scott family villa was far away. There were many trees in the area for beautifying purposes, but as a result, the entire road was very dark.
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Eugene knew that Melanie could not see well at night and had never allowed her to drive to the family villa alone at that hour. However, he had drunk a lot that night and had no choice.
As long as she drove slower at night, though, there was nothing to be afraid of. However, that night, when Melanie picked up Eugene, she realized how drunk he was.
He reeked of alcohol, and his usually clear eyes were stormy. He looked a little scary.
Melanie could not see clearly to begin with, and Eugene reminded her to be careful. However, she was so worried about Eugene that she drove straight into the grass beside the road for
some reason. The person beside her groaned. Melanie was suddenly at a loss. She panicked and tried to reverse the car out of the shrubs.Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.
However, before she could step on the accelerator, someone grabbed her hand and pulled her into an embrace that reeked of alcohol.
Before she could react, Eugene was on top of her.
With one arm around her waist and the other on the back of her head, he kissed her hard and fast, as if he wanted nothing more than to melt Melanie into his body.
The moment their lips collided, it was as if they were fighting a war. He attacked forcefully, and she defended helplessly.
Enely, when sie was almost out of breath, Eugene let her go.
However, steamy hat a moment's reprieve before he held her in his arms and kissed her
Bugete went wid at night. He almost wanted to do it in the car until Melanie stopped him.
tie is display of passion. Melanie’s eyes were red, and her lips were swollen. As he pressed tend his amis, sie asked him quietly, “Eugene, what happened?”
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Melanie towner and looked up at him, but all she could see was Eugene’s clenched jawline.
In the dark night, his voice was unspeakably cold. “Milly, | wasn’t ruthless enough with myself. That’s why | ended up walking down this path.”
Fachser his eyes, his Adam’s apple bobbing. “Milly, can you give me a little more time?” Ar fiat time. Welanie did not understand what Eugene meant. Even so, she believed him. Even later witen he had more people by his side, she had held onto his words. She just had to give him alinte more time
WHTET STE WITHe up these was a thin sheen of sweat on Melanie’s forehead. She propped Tessel in in the headboard and felt her heart palpitate.
Stein for know why she had dreamed of that time. It was probably because Eugene had mentioned in again that afternoon that she had remembered that conversation.
France Velante felt suffocated whenever Eugene shouted the name “Milly” in her dream. It had been a long time since someone had called her that. Rather, there had only been two Tele wire has called her all her life.
Villy as Valatie’s childhood per name. When she was learning how to spell as a kid, she had compared that her name was way too long and had too many syllables. She asked her parents why they had not called her Milly instead. That would be so much easier to spell and say.
Roggend was still a good father back then. He hugged her and said, “Alright, then Daddy will call you Milly from now on You’re my only treasure, little Milly.”
Laar on, Howard and Dylan got divorced, and no one mentioned that little incident again.
One day, Mong, Bagene went with her to visit her grandfather, and Albert accidentally Bring up that childhood memory.
After that, fagre kept calling her Milly for a long time.
The memories were all jumbled and confusing Melanie sat on her bed for a long moment bases she heard a knock on the door Rubbing her temples, she opened the door and saw Xander standing outside with a glass of
Has expression was the same as ever. “You're awake.”