To the Love of My Life

Chapter 801: Chapter 801: Overbearing CEO Falls for the Delicate Wife (1)_1

How she wished… that time could just stay still, frozen, allowing him and her to be together in peace.

Howard Coleman was willing to come home, willing to eat the late-night snack she prepared, willing to lie with her calmly in the same bed… willing to block that knife for her without hesitation; did that mean that there was still hope for her and the Howard she loved?

Deep in her heart she knew, what Howard did for her wasn’t at all great, yet she was already content.

He didn’t love her; he even harbored some hatred towards her. It was she who had ruined the first love and affection of his life. Therefore, the fact that he was willing to coexist with her peacefully felt like a blessing from heaven.

Madeleine turned with a smile, gazing at Howard’s sleeping form in the dim light of the sleep lamp. In that moment, her heart suddenly found an extraordinary calm.

Back in their youth, she would watch as Howard started dating girlfriends, one after the other. At that time, she wasn’t without jealousy, but she told herself deep down that she didn’t want to be just another passing figure in Howard’s life; she wanted to be the one to grow old with him.

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She admitted that she was a bit foolish; she could have chosen to be with a man who truly loved her, being treated like a princess, exalted and adored. But she couldn’t.

At work she could be as decisive and commanding as a queen, but when facing the man she loved, she was nothing but a fool, vulnerable and beyond help.

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When Maya Mitchell was escorted out of the Grand Capital Hotel by the police, the doorway of the hotel was left with only a few doormen. The main characters of the grand proposal and the surrounding crowd had all dispersed without a trace. @@novelbin@@

In the deep of the summer night, the air was no longer as oppressively hot as during the day. As Maya walked out of the Grand Capital Hotel’s entrance, she instinctively looked up. The big screen overhead, which had just shown romantic scenes, now was empty, with no beautiful songs drifting through the air. However, in her mind’s eye, she could still see the scenes broadcasted from the TV in the private room.

Beauty like jade, the man divine.

A match made in heaven, a perfect harmony.

That must be the most beautiful yet unreal fairy tale in the world.

Had it not been for the scattered rose petals on the ground, she might have thought that the scene she had seen on TV was just a fantastical vision she had concocted.

The fragrance of roses still lingered in the air, mixed with a romantic and moving scent.

The man she had loved for so many years had proposed to the woman she had diligently opposed for just as long.

Steve Burton’s words before leaving were not wrong at all.

If she was so envious of Ruby Gregory, then let her be thoroughly envious to her heart’s content.

Such a proposal scene was truly blinding and heart-wrenching for her.

A layer of moisture suddenly filled the corners of Maya’s eyes, the words that Steve said to her in the private room echoing clearly in her ears.

The man’s tone was so collected and calm, yet it was a hundred times more cruel and brutal than Ruby’s gnashing teeth and anger.

He said everything had been leaked to her by him.

He said his treatment of her was all an act.

He also said that the cooperation deals and the hundreds of millions of capital she had earned by sleeping her way through were not actually for him but for Ruby Gregory, the woman she hated the most.

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