Desperate Lovers
Chapter 267 It Was Hatred At First

When the onlookers heard this, they all felt Adeline's words ridiculous, "Damn, how could she be so shameless?" "So, in her opinion, her daughter isn't to be blamed at all?"

"Forget about the world views. Just with her intelligence, why does she have a daughter like Jessica? Lucky her!" "Cathleen is the most pathetic one, her fiancé does not like her at all."

Cathleen was embarrassed to be discussed by others like that. She just wanted to leave, but she couldn't.

She walked up to Danis with anger and pulled him with all her strength, "Danis, you've kneeled and apologized, can we go now?"

"You can go, I'm sorry." Danis kneeled on the ground and did not move. No matter what Cathleen and Adeline said to him, he replied to them with nothing but a cold face. Occasionally, he would apologize to Angela.

Seeing that she couldn't take Danis away, Adeline went into Dream Club for some help, "Where is your club manager? Ask him to come out to see me."

"Okay, please wait." The staff said.

Gabriela came down just in time with a bright smile, "Mrs. Smith, why are you so angry? Someone, go make a cup of tea for Mrs. Smith to calm her down."

"No need!" Adeline said indignantly, "The entrance of the clubhouse is also under your control, right? You hurry up and tell those people to leave and do what they need to do."

Gabriela sighed lightly, "You think too highly of me. Our customers here are rich and famous and I can't control them at all. I'm really sorry."

No matter how Adeline forced her, Gabriela only apologized and asked for Adeline's forgiveness, which made Adeline very angry.

In the Harvey Group, President's office.

James answered a call. When he heard the request from the other side, he said, "Dad, you also know that I have just been removed from my position as president and my only five percent of shares have been confiscated, and now I am being investigated for economic crimes. How can I dare to offend others when I can't even protect myself?"

"Don't try to fool me!" Jason said in a deep voice, "Adeline said that Dream Club has been surrounded by a lot of people. Since you are the top boss of the club, shouldn't you step in to deal with it?"

James knocked on the desktop with his fingers a few times, "Dad, since you are so concerned about Adelin, why don't you step in to deal with the trouble for her? Those people at the door are all juniors, they should listen to you."

"Nonsense!" Jason said, "Those people are all kids from rich or powerful families. If I step in, unnecessary trouble will be brought to us!"

James pulled his lips, "Since you insist, it seems to be my fault if I don't go. I will tell my grandfather that you are having an affair with Adeline. And to save your heroine, you ask me to..."

"James!" Jason interrupted James with a warning.

James snickered, "What should I do? When I refuse, you are angry. When I agree, you are also angry. I still have work to do. I gotta go."

With that, he hung up the phone without waiting for his father's reply.

James went back to the files but didn't turn a page after a long time. He closed the file, stood up, put his trench coat on his arm, walked over, and pushed open the door of the lounge, "Come out with me." "Why?" Angela frowned slightly and looked up at him. Then she turned her eyes away and stood up to put on her coat.

James raised his eyebrows slightly and laughed lightly, "To avenge you."

As Angela walked to the door, James extended his hand towards her.

Seeing his bony and slender hand, Angela hesitated for a while before she put her hand on his palm. James gave a smile when seeing her like this. He wrapped her hand with his and tickled the back of her hand with his index finger. Angela felt uncomfortable being so intimate with him. She frowned slightly and subconsciously shrank back a little to break away.

"Don't move." James looked down at her and grabbed her hand with a little more force.

Angela pursed her lips and looked at their hands wrapped together with a complicated expression. When she got into the car, she hesitated and said, "James, we aren't a good match."

"You come to me first." James closed the door, started the car, and said calmly, "It's too late to think so." The scenery outside the windows changed as the car went forward.

"It's my fault. I am overconfident to have a crush on you." Angela said, "I'm different from you and Jessica. I will only be your burden if I continue to be with you."

James accelerated and drove past Volkswagen in front of him, "Do you think that your brother and sister-in-law are your burden?"

Angela remained silent for a while before she said, "It is different."

"It is the same." The traffic light turned red so that James stopped the car, "Your brother and your sister-in-law are important to you, so you do not think they are a burden. You are also important to me, so I don't think you are my burden." The Bentley was unusually eye-catching in the crowd of cars, and pedestrians passing by the crosswalk looked over from time to time.

Angela laughed lightly and said with complex emotions, "If you said that to me two years ago, I probably would have gone crazy with joy."

"What about now?" James asked.

Angela lowered her eyes while picking the nail of her left index finger with her right fingers, "Do you know what kept me alive when I almost died in prison several times over the past two years?"

James wanted to say something with complex emotions in his eyes, but he didn't.

"It was hatred at first." Thinking of those days in prison at that time, Angela closed her eyes and laughed bitterly, "Every time I was insulted and bullied by those people, I told myself that I'm going to get out alive and tell everyone that they misunderstood me. And I would make everyone regret and feel guilty! Especially you!"

James's handsome face tensed. His hand on the steering wheel moved and his car almost hit the Audi on the side.

The Audi owner opened the window and shouted to James, loud and clear, but he didn't hear anything.

"But even hatred couldn't keep me alive anymore. I always thought, why should I go on living so painfully just to make you regret it?"

"I had better died and everything ended with my death. But I didn't. So, I thought that I would go see my parents and brother after I was out of prison. Then I could die."

But before I could see my family after I got out of prison, I met you and began to work in Dream Club..." Angela's eyes were blank as she said that.

There weren't too many ups and downs in her voice. She just described the fact straightforwardly without any exaggeration, but James felt his heart in pain when hearing her words.

It hurt.

It hurt more than that when he was beaten by his grandfather, one thousand and ten thousand times more.