99 Bloody Lashes And A Bullet To His Hear

He had noticed the tension between them, but he wasn't concerned about Joe. As things stood between them, whether Joe was just a former boss or something more, the relationship was over. He could trust Olivia.

Once he had distanced himself, she turned back to face Joe, her gaze calm, but her words sharp.noveldrama

"Mr. Evans, you are the CEO of a listed group, how come you're both deaf and blind at such a young age? If I'm not mistaken, I've explained this to you many times already. I really am going to get married. Even if you couldn't hear it, the news of the merger between the Brown and Williams families was trending just a few days ago. You may not have heard it, but you should have seen it, right?".

Olivia truly couldn't understand Joe's intentions.

If he loved her, why had he treated her as a substitute for seven years, and after Sophia returned, discarded her without hesitation to choose Sophia, hiding it from her and turning her from a legitimate girlfriend into a despised mistress? He never gave her the trust she deserved, letting Sophia humiliate her in every way.

But if he didn't love her, shouldn't her leaving and supporting him and Sophia be what he wanted? Why was he here

now?

Also, according to the news she had seen a few days ago, wasn't today his wedding with Sophia? Instead of staying in Edinburgh to marry Sophia, why was he in London looking for her?

Seeing the confusion in her eyes, Joe quickly began explaining, "Olivia, I'm sorry. I know now. I misunderstood you. I didn't know Sophia was such a malicious person. I'm apologizing to you, will you forgive me this time? I really know I was wrong. You're only engaged to him because you were angry with me, right? Give me one more chance, come back to Edinburgh with me, okay? I swear, once you come back with me, I won't care about acting or anything else. I just want to be with you, and we'll go public right away, okay?"

He said a lot, but he didn't know how much Olivia had taken in. All he could hear was the sound of his heartbeat, pounding in his ears.

He waited for her to nod, for her to smile at him, even if it was to scold him and say that if he ever treated her like this again, she would never speak to him. He would swear on his life that he would never betray her again.

She smiled slightly, and his heart skipped a beat, but she quickly crushed all of his hopes with her words.

"No." She watched his smile fade and her gaze grew colder as she listed out his wrongdoings.

"Joe, the moment I accepted the marriage arrangement, I was already saying goodbye to you. After all, I'm not the kind of person who can be a substitute for seven years, be engaged to someone else, and deceive myself that a seven-year relationship is real. Joe, there will only be one person by my side. He won't treat me like a substitute, and he won't come up with excuses to avoid going public. That person will definitely not be you."

It was only at this moment that Joe realized that Olivia had known everything.

She knew he had treated her as a substitute for seven years,

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Knew about his real marriage with Sophia and the lies he told her,

Knew about his wavering, and so she had decisively abandoned him.

He opened his mouth but couldn't say anything. He watched her smile disappear, and her gaze towards him was filled with disgust.

Tears welled up in his eyes, but he held them back, his eyes turning red. Watching Olivia walk away, a surge of unwillingness rose in his heart.

They had been together for seven years, from eighteen to twenty-five. The best years of her life had been spent with him. Their relationship should have been the most significant part of her life. How could she so easily let go of him?

"Olivia!" Joe's voice, choked with tears, called out from behind. This time, however, she didn't stop, walking directly toward Charlie, even jogging a few steps as she neared him.

Joe suddenly remembered the time when they first got together.

At that time, all his feelings for her were tied to Sophia. He had been infatuated with her face, sinking into endless passion with her, calling her name as she fell asleep in his arms.

He knew he had been cruel, fooling the young girl into falling into his web of lies, and because of that, he felt guilty, unable to give her love, and tried to make up for it with other things.

Romance, money, status... but he never wanted to go public with their relationship.

He thought that if Sophia returned one day, they could separate gracefully, and she wouldn't suffer from others' criticisms. She could completely distance herself from him.

But now, in the seventh year of their relationship, after Sophia had returned, and he was about to marry her, Joe realized, when his friends advised him to let go, that he couldn't bear it.