The Barrister’s Love in Town ( Elias Winters & Amanda )
Chapter 272

Chapter 272

Chapter 272 He Can’t Get Over You

“That’s… A problem.” Amanda didn’t know what to do now. She didn’t want to get involved inLunabelle’s and Simon’s mess.

Lunabelle sobbed. “I’m so sorry for visiting you out of the blue today. I don’t have many friends in thiscountry. I wanted to vent to someone, but then I realized that I don’t have any friends,”

“It’s okay. I understand.” Amanda knew more than anyone what it felt like to be left alone, completely.helpless.

Lunabelle seemed to have cleared her mind after enjoying some time under the breeze. Then, shewiped her tears.

“What about you? Are you reconciling with your ex-husband?”

Amanda’s smile froze for a moment. I’m not sure about that. There doesn’t seem to be a need toreconcile. I can never be his type, or he wouldn’t be so cruel to me four years ago. I cannot believe thathe earnestly fell for me now, either. I think we’ll just keep things as they are, and we can raise our sontogether.”

She honestly didn’t know how to deal with her relationship with Elias, and with the Allegras added intothe mix, her mind was a mess.

“You have to follow your heart. Why bother about so many things? If your ex-husband wants toreconcile, and you want to reconcile as well, then just do it. After all, you have a child too,” Lunabellesaid.

Amanda fell silent.

Could things be so simple? She didn’t dare imagine it.

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Also, Howard had just passed away, and Elias was swamped with company matters. Elias probablydidn’t have the time to think about these things.

In reality, Lunabelle had ulterior motives for saying that. She felt that as long as Amanda hadn’t found aman of her own, Simon would never turn his focus back on her.

Lunabelle wasn’t as confident as she had been back then. In the past, she could confidently telleveryone that Simon would only marry her. Now that things had changed, she had lost that confidenceas well.

Amanda sighed lightly. “Are you convincing me to get a man and settle down?”

She seemed to have understood Lunabelle’s thoughts. Lunabelle thought that it was Amanda’shesitation. that caused problems between Simon and her. Simon couldn’t settle down knowing thatAmanda is still up for grabs. Hence, Lunabelle and Simon still couldn’t reconcile after all this while.

“Um, I don’t mean it like that. I just want everyone to have a good ending.”

Amanda scoffed, her voice filled with mockery, “A good ending? Then, why would you make the wrongchoice in the beginning? When you decided to get married, you should have known that you made thewrong choice. Now that you’re trying to turn back, you realized that Simon didn’t wait for you like youassumed he would.”

When Lunabelle heard Amanda’s words, she was forced to face just how cruel she had been.

“No! It’s not like that. I had my reasons when I got married all those years ago. I was forced to do it,”

Lunabelle suddenly shouted defensively.

Amanda crossed her arms and leaned back. “Sure. However, you shouldn’t have left without saying.goodbye. In those years when I met Simon overseas, he was in a horrible state. He looked like he wasstill plagued by sorrow after being abandoned by you. He took a long while to get over this failedrelationship. Yet, here you are now. You came back and suddenly wanted him to accept youunconditionally. You didn’t even give him time to recover from the shock. Do you think this is fair tohim?”

For a moment, everything was quiet.

Lunabelle was at a loss for words. Of course, she knew that she was being unfair to Simon right now.Plus, she was also a divorcee.

She had no other choice, so she could only go to Simon. If she didn’t, the rest of her life would be inruins.

Lunabelle was all worked up as she refuted hotly, “What about you? Was it fair for you to be withSimon? You got divorced and even had a child, so you’re better off being with your ex-husband!”

Hah…

This woman finally revealed her truest thoughts.

Amanda said with a smirk, “You finally said it. You’ve been holding it in for long enough, haven’t you?You didn’t want to vent to me; you wanted to convince me to reconcile as soon as possible so that youwouldn’t have anything to worry about in the future, right?”

“It’s not like that, I truly wanted to vent-

Amanda was losing her patience. She stood up and said, “Miss Gowen, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholson lookeddown on you, and Simon has no intention of reconciling with you, but I’m not at all related to thesethings. It’ll still be the same if I weren’t part of the equation.”

Lunabelle shot to her feet as well. “Impossible! If it weren’t for you, Simon wouldn’t still be so hung upover you. He can’t get over you.”

“Even if it wasn’t me, he would still fall for someone else. Did you think that Simon wouldn’t fall foranyone but you? You’ve gotten married and then divorced, so what right do you have to forbid Simonfrom liking another woman?” Amanda’s tone was filled with disdain.

“You!”

Lunabelle wanted to say more, but Amanda interrupted her. “If you still insist on wasting my time withnonsense, then I’m sorry. I don’t want to hear more of it. I have to go to sleep now because I have a lotof matters to attend to tomorrow. Please go home.”

Lunabelle looked at her, hesitant. Then, she could only leave in anger.

She thought that Amanda could understand her circumstances and work with her, but she didn’texpect. things to turn out like this.

Amanda went to the location Simon specified to meet the following day. It was a cafe.

The waiter led her to a seat by the window. Simon was sitting there alone, drinking coffee. He evenordered a latte for her.

“Amanda, you’re here.”

“Yes.” She smiled, then took a seat at the side. She picked up the coffee and took a sip.

Simon looked at her joyful expression, then couldn’t help but tease her as he said, “You don’t look toogood. Did something nice happen?”

“It’s nothing. I’m probably happy that things are going well these days.”

She was truly quite happy to learn who her biological parents were. When she knew that the gamblerwasn’t her father, she even felt relieved as if a huge burden was lifted from her shoulders.

Only Amanda knew the meaning behind her words. So, to Simon, it was painful to hear.

Simon asked, “Elias was getting engaged with Stephanie, right? I was preparing to attend theengagement banquet, but I was informed last minute that the engagement was called off. Do you knowwhat happened?”

“Well… I probably do.” Amanda took a sip of coffee.

“Why?” Simon’s gaze was filled with anxiety. He wanted to know if the reason was the one he had inmind. Could it be that the two wanted to reconcile? Was that the reason why Elias called off theengagement?

Simon couldn’t help but clench his fist under the table at that thought.

Regardless, Amanda didn’t want to make the reason known to the public. She didn’t want more peopleto know that Jack was her biological father, so she chose to keep it a secret.

“I’m just saying that I have a vague idea. I don’t know the details, though. They seemed to havereached that conclusion after some negotiation.”

“No, you definitely know something. You just don’t want to tell me.”

Simon felt his heart turning cold. Perhaps it truly was as he had feared, the two were reconciling. Afterall, he could see the happiness radiating from Amanda’s eyes.

Amanda didn’t say anything else. She simply lowered her head and drank some coffee. Her actionswere akin to a silent admittance.

Still, she didn’t expect Simon to overthink matters. She just wanted to keep her identity a secret for alonger time.