Chapter 24
“I’m not the one who brought down Benson Corp. You should be asking him for mercy.”
Jaycie gave a faint smile, but it didn’t reach her eyes. “Besides, Cole, didn’t you already do all you can to ruin what we had?”
When he hid his engagement to someone else, planning to keep her as just a mistress by his side; when his friends, speaking in Frutunian, mocked and belittled her, and he never even considered stepping in to stop them; when Eileen and his crew spread lies about her, and he remained comfortably silent, acting like a ghost…
Now, he had the audacity to bring up their past? Why didn’t he remember what they had back then when he did all those things
that hurt her?
The color drained from Cole’s face as her words hit home. He felt an unbearable dryness in his throat, and it became so hard to
swallow that it felt like the weight of the world had settled on him.
“Jaycie, I know I was wrong, and I’m sorry. But if this goes on, Benson Corp won’t survive…”
She shrugged nonchalantly. “What’s it to me if Benson Corp can’t survive? Cole, they’ve all paid the price for what they’ve done.
Why do you think a simple apology will get you off the hook?”
“But I didn’t do any of those things to you!”
He was desperate, trying to defend himself, but the moment the words left his mouth, he saw the fake smile on her face vanish,
replaced by cold indifference.
“You didn’t do it yourself, but you just stood by and watched, didn’t you?” she sneered, her voice dripping with disdain. “Cole,
it’s people like you, the bystanders, who are the worst. Because you stood by, your friends treated me like dirt. Because you stood
by, Eileen got countless chances to hurt me. And now, you dare say you didn’t do anything?
“Fine, you say you didn’t do anything, then I’ll say I’ve never targeted Benson Corp. I’m not going to help you with it.”
She then raised her voice. “Linda, show him out.”
Her assistant opened the door to the office with a professional smile plastered on her face. “This way, Mr. Benson.”
Cole opened his mouth to say something else, but Jaycie, already walking toward the exit with Zander by her side, simply ignored
him.
After all, she was the CEO–taking a short break wasn’t a big deal. And with her assistant handling the situation, she didn’t need
to worry about what was happening behind her.
“So,
what are we having? Lunch at a fancy restaurant or something more homemade? I’ve been craving a taste of home lately,”
Jaycie said breezily.
“Let’s go with homemade, then. Whatever you say,” Zander replied.
