Chapter 75
Nelissa started to remember what had happened that day.
Her mother had a car accident and she stayed in the hospital for a few days and nights. Then the problems of the company, the betrayal of Zayden, and so on were all pressing on her. She had no chance to go back to school. After that day, her life was completely reversed.
“Why didn’t you come that day?” Jordan insisted on asking clearly. His big hand grabbed Nelissa, and he wanted to know where she went later!
That year, there was a rumor in the class that she eloped with a man. He didn’t believe it and had been waiting for her to come back to school. Finally, he couldn’t wait for her, and he was forced to leave the country by his parents.
Penelope looked at the diamond watch. It had already been six minutes. Jordan said that he would have a private talk with Nelissa in five minutes. She thought it was almost time to go there.
“Don’t come over!” Jordan growled at Penelope, and his voice echoed in the underground parking lot. It was very scary!
Penelope was frightened by his insanity and did not go over.
“Why didn’t she come?” Jordan asked Nelissa once again, the blue veins on her hands throbbed.
Nelissa felt a little pain in his hand. She immediately shook off his hand, no longer afraid of him. “I didn’t promise you to go, I refused you. But after that, you found a few boys to block me. I could only promise you first in such a situation. I didn’t want to go to the appointment at that time.”
“You lied to me.” Jordan stared at Nelissa’s fair little face with a livid face. He really wanted to bully her and let her say what he liked to hear. “Where did you go after that? eloped with Zayden?”
“You’re the one who eloped!” Nelissa didn’t like Jordan’s nonsense. She turned to Penelope and shouted, “Penelope, let’s go.”
“Oh, okay.” Penelope walked towards them while sizing them up. She saw that Jordan was silent and was not out of his mind, so she opened the door and got on the car. Her temper hadn’t changed at all!
The front of the white BMW flashed, but Jordan didn’t move away. Penelope pressed the horn a few times but couldn’t see him go away, so she had to reverse slowly and scold him in her heart.
Sitting in the passenger seat, Nelissa looked in the mirror and saw Jordan still standing there with his arms down. She frowned and looked away.
Jordan stood in the underground parking lot for a long time. He took out a box of cigarettes, lit one, and took a drag on it. The smoke made him narrow his eyes and look at the parking lot’s exit. He did not come to his senses until half of the cigarette ashes fell to his shirt.
His uncle called. Jordan bit his cigarette and picked up the phone. Hearing what his uncle said, he took off the cigarette in his mouth and said, “Well, I’ll come up now.”
Throwing down the cigarette butt, Jordan turned around and left to go to the meeting.
In the elevator, Jordan took out the fresh spray he carried with him and sprayed it twice in his mouth to dispel the smoke.
Jordan, who had learned how to smoke since high school, actually did not like the smell of cigarettes at all. In the beginning, he choked while forcing himself to smoke, just to become a mature man more mature than his age. Then he compared Zayden to let Nelissa see him.
Jordan had been with the tide since he was a child, and bullying Nelissa was just an unintentional act. During the three years of high school, Nelissa had always given him a few advantages.
It was the first time in his life that he had an unrequited love for a girl, but Jordan did not know how to express it. Jordan was excited and liked to bully others in his heart, but Nelissa did not appreciate it until his parents sent him abroad. He then realized that one day he would be separated from this Crybaby and could never bully her again.
On the day when they met in the cinema, Jordan waited from day to night at the door, and Nelissa never showed up again. This period of youth was full of regret and ended up with nothing definite.
It wasn’t until the day before yesterday that Jordan found this faint regret of pain clearly. Over the years, it had been expanding in his heart and never faded, and it was still hot.Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.
She couldn’t forget that tear bag that kept turning red with envy.
On the high bridge.
Penelope was driving and turned to look at Nelissa. She suddenly said, “Jordan likes you.”
“Ah?” Nelissa was stunned. Only after a few slaps were she scared!
“Didn’t you see that? He used to bully you because he wanted to attract your attention. Young boys are all like this. The more girls he likes, the more malicious they are.” Penelope had seen that Jordan liked Nelissa long ago, but at that time, Nelissa had already had Zayden. She did not want Nelissa to know Jordan’s heart.
“Really?” Nelissa tangled her fair fingers, unable to believe what she was seeing.
Penelope nodded solemnly. It could not be fake. When Nelissa was missing, Jordan was the first to ask the school to send someone. He was even more nervous than her. Later, he was sent abroad in advance.
Nelissa looked at the brilliant lights on the bridge silently. Her eyebrows were slightly twisted. In her impression, Jordan should hate her very much. Only when he extremely disliked her would he glare at her with terrifying eyes on the first day she transferred to another school.
At that time, she almost thought that Jordan was her former high school classmate and recognized her.
Back to Nelissa’s apartment, Penelope stopped the car and rolled down the window to let a breeze in. She held the steering wheel and asked Nelissa thoughtfully, “Nelissa, have you seen your two children for Zayden?”
Nelissa shook her head. Her heart was sensitive to this topic. “Why do you mention him? Penelope, you always want Zayden and I to get back together, but it’s hard to explain the relationship between men and women. I used to be with him, but without marriage, no one can guarantee whether I will be able to grow old with the first man.”
Penelope looked at Nelissa and said, “I just feel sorry for your love. I saw with my own eyes that you and Zayden had been together for three years. Before that, you also told me that Zayden had been with you since you were a child, and he had been keeping you for a long time. If you didn’t be together in the end, I really don’t believe love.”
Nelissa looked down and sighed. She had been living in nightmares for five years.
Penelope said with emotion from the bottom of her heart, “Nelissa, I actually envy you. At least you can choose your own love. My uncle and I, we get married for the sake of our own interests. There is no love. Originally, my uncle was a good person. He liked Anna, but unfortunately, he could only marry Sophie when he didn’t see her.”
“From now on, I’ll marry a man who is about the same as me. I won’t let him marry me. I’ll treat him as my guest of honor and be a sensible wife. Even if his heart belongs to someone else, I can only get rid of him or her. We can’t make a decision in marriage.”
“Nelissa, try to reconcile with Zayden. I don’t want to see you break up like this.” The more Penelope said, the more disappointed she was. She always thought that only Nelissa was worthy of Zayden.
Nelissa didn’t say anything and looked out of the window. After a long time, she said goodbye to Penelope and got off the car to enter the apartment.
When she waited for the elevator, her heart was full of complex emotions. She had nothing to do with the harmony between Zayden and him. She once hated him because of love.
No matter how love existed between the two enemies, wasn’t she going to torture herself alive?
Zayden was very vicious and gave her the most vicious love story.
When she returned home, Seven Days of Noelle had already gone to bed. Jolene waited for her in the living room and said that he had packed two pounds of crayfish for her to eat.
Nelissa went to take a bath first. When her mind was in a mess, she was used to taking a bath. The water poured on her head, which could help her to calm down a little, or at least, calm down a little.
After taking a shower, she blew her hair in the room and glanced at Edward’s coat on the chair. She wanted to take it back to Jolene’s office tomorrow and see if she could invite him to talk about business with her and return it to him.
After drying her hair, Nelissa took out her phone to charge. She thought about whether she should send a text message to Edward. She just lost her temper with him last night about Penelope, and he would deal with it tonight. She knew how lucky she was.
In fact, it was better to hide some things, such as how Penelope didn’t know that the father of her two children was actually Edward.
For example, she pretended not to know that Penelope liked Zayden.
Last time, when Penelope said the true words when she was drunk, Nelissa had more or less a similar feeling. She was no longer the Crybaby from back then. After five years of training in society, she could see many things that were either open or hidden.
She didn’t want to point it out, or both of them would be embarrassed.
Alas, Nelissa sent a text message to Edward with mixed feelings, saying, “Penelope and I are reconciled.”
Sending a text message, Nelissa put her phone in the charger. She had just put it down when Edward’s call came.
She thought for a while, then closed the door and picked up his phone.
“Are you treating a text message as sending me off?” Edward’s magnetic voice came out in a low voice.
“My phone is running out of money, so sending a text is cheap.” Nelissa was spouting nonsense. She heard Edward’s soft laughter from the other end of the phone. She pressed her ear against the phone and felt slightly hot. Unknowingly, she bit her lip. “Penelope believes in Sophie’s explanation. Did you do it this morning? But the staff at the hotel…” There was someone who saw them and Jordan should know about it.
Edward said leisurely, “I gave them money, they have already resigned.”
Nelissa was shocked and asked him, “When did it happen?”
Instead, Edward said in a low voice, “I don’t like the way Jordan looks at you.”
Nelissa immediately took a breath and her heart beat uncontrollably faster. Her fair fingers clutched her pajamas!
Edward had seen the look in Jordan’s eyes when he looked at Nelissa at the hotel’s entrance that day. He had seen everything, but he had made preparations the very day after that. He had used money to buy off the cleaner and the female manager. They had already resigned after receiving a decent amount of money. No one would know what he and Nelissa had done in the hotel suite, or at least there would not be any concrete evidence.
This man was very shrewd. He was not from ordinary wealthy families. He was really powerful and was a man of action.
Edward said in a gentle and overbearing tone, “He’s interested in you. Don’t associate with him, okay?”
“I’m not?” Nelissa asked, her heart trembling.
“Jordan, 23 years old. He went abroad at 18 years old. In general, he went to the hotel management department and made three girlfriends. He has a hobby. He likes racing and won many amateur trophies.” These were all the materials that Edward had sent people to find Jordan. This was only a simple level. He did not say something more. “It is actually very simple to have an accident on the racing road. Do you want to try his life hard enough, huh?”