Book TRK
Chapter 788
Chapter 788
Chapter 788 It Was a Little Late for Him to Understand
Feeling the phone vibrating, she felt as if it had hit her heart through her fingertips. She picked it up with a tight throat and said in an uneasy voice, “Hello?”
Hearing her voice, the man on the other end of the line was
silent for two seconds, and then he asked softly, “Are you feeling better?”
He didn’t ask her where she was, nor did he ask who she was with. It had nothing to do with trust. This man had strong insight. He didn’t ask because he already knew.
She tightened her grip on the phone and suddenly panicked. “I… I’m fine now. I had a fever because of the inflammation.”
Bert was on the other side of the phone, but he was far away from her. They were speechless for a moment. Listening to each other’s breathing, he suddenly felt a little powerless.
“Evelyn.” He called out her name in a deep voice.
His voice made her heart skip a beat. “Hmm? What’s wrong?”
Bert and his assistant were in the office discussing the vestment project with Huston Lloyd, but he suddenly said that he wanted to make a phone call.
The assistant knew that he was answering a private call, so he lowered his head and stepped aside. At this time, the man got up and walked to the bright French window. Looking at the bright weather outside, his heart was filled with tears. “Come back.”
As if he was afraid that she would not understand, he emphasized, “Come back to me.”
For a man like Bert, there were very few times that he said something like this in the past five years, let alone a year. The first thought that came to her mind when she heard that was if something had happened to him.
Could it be that he had encountered some sort of trouble?
She couldn’t help but worry. “What’s wrong with you, Bert?”
This man was very special to both her and Lucas. She had once thought that if she hadn’t met Huston earlier, she might have
fallen in love with Bert.
But this was how unreasonable the world was. There was no if, no possibility.
“What’s wrong?”
The man’s gaze fell on the street below the building, which was as dense as a small black dot. He smiled self–mockingly and silently. “I don’t know what’s wrong.”
Every day, he would think of her, the cup she had used, the food
she liked, and even a word that overlapped with her name.
He hadn’t lived with her for five years in Eoland. Most of the time, they lived together on weekends and holidays. He had never been as uneasy as he was now.
He felt that he should be sick, the kind that was very seriously.
Hearing his empty voice, she became even more worried. “Are you not feeling well, or is it about work?”C0ntent © 2024 (N/ô)velDrama.Org.
“No”
It had nothing to do with work or health. It was just about her.
Bert thought in his heart, but it was very difficult to
say this sentence. He didn’t know how to express his feelings, but he was sure that he was about to lose her.
The biggest difference between him and Huston was that, no matter how much they loved each other, he was a free–spirited person who pretended to be generous and confident. As for that man, he would never let her go before he was certain of his feelings for her.
She had suffered too much in her relationship, so she didn’t have much courage to face a new beginning. What she needed to do was to be hit in the heart when she hesitated, instead of waiting for her own decision.
Returning to Jewel City was a mistake, and allowing her to get in touch with that man was even more of a mistake.
Unfortunately, it was too late for him to understand.