Too Much to Bear, My Love
Chapter 101

“Granddad, I respect you so much. I didn’t expect you...” Carterclenched his fists. His voice sounded slightly hurt.”

Abel sighed, “Carter, you are almost thirty. Your granddad is alreadyold. Since your other relatives don't possess your talents, you willinherit the entire Scott family. So your marriage can only be anarranged marriage. Choose the right wife, and she can take your careerto the next level.”

“Granddad, I am capable of growing our business by myself. I don'tneed a princess of a lady to be the icing on the cake. If you trust me,you won't force me like this.”

After a pause, he continued, “Granddad, I didn’t come here today tofight with you and Mom. I want to let you know that if you want me toget married, you shouldn't get involved in my marriage.”

After finishing speaking, he left firmly without looking back.

"Carter, come back here now.” Mrs. Scott roared savagely.

“Stop calling him. Let him leave.” Abel waved his hand and murmured.Mrs. Scott complained, “Dad, this boy is getting out of his way. If youcontinue to indulge him like this, not only me, but I'm afraid he won'teven listen to you.”

Abel chuckled profoundly. “He has the same style as me during the olddays. He looks gentle but is stubborn in his bones. Don't worry about it.I believe he will be able to handle his work and relationship well. Sincehe doesn't like the daughter of the Larsons, let it be then. There aremany wealthy young ladies out there. It doesn't have to be that Larsongirl.”

Mrs. Scott tried hard to control the rage inside her. “I had made anagreement with the Larsons, and they had come back all the way fromoverseas just for this marital alliance. You want me to tell them that ourboy has someone else in his heart and ask them to go back?”

“You caused this, so you should be the one to solve it.” Abel stood up.“I'm sleepy. Good night. You can solve the Larson's affairs by yourself.”He went upstairs right away, leaving Mrs. Scott alone on the sofa,stunned with confusion

After Carter left the house, he drove like crazy on the road. He spedthrough several red lights and approached the riverside.

He shouldered down a box of beer he had bought on the road and satsolely by the river. He started to drink one bottle of them desperately.Gazing at the sparkling river surface under the moonlight, he couldtaste the bitterness of the beer.

Perhaps one was more likely to get drunk when in sorrow. Carter felt alittle tipsy after only a few bottles of beer. He wanted to call the womanhe loved.

He fished for his mobile phone and looked through his contacts. Hisfinger froze on the contact name My Love. He hesitated for a long timebut did not call her. Instead, he dialed Tiffany's number.

The phone got through, and Tiffany's sleepy and irritable voice traveledout of the speaker. “You better have something important. Otherwise, Iwill kill you for waking me from my beauty sleep.”

Hearing that, Carter's fretful emotion seemed to fade a little.

“Tiffany, was Amelia having a hard time back then?” Carter's voice wasslightly drunk.

Tiffany yelled dryly on the phone and thundered, “Carter, you are a jinx.Are you calling in the middle of the night to ask such a tediousquestion? If there is nothing else, I will hang up.”

“Don't hang up. I'm upset. Can you chat with me?”

Tiffany sensed the abnormality in Carter's tone and asked hesitantly,"Did you drink?”

“A little, not too much.”

Tiffany sighed, “Carter, although I called you a jinx, you are terrific andhandsome, to be honest. You can have any woman you like, so whybother about Amelia? She is now married and has a baby. You can’t winher heart by being a drunkard. Is she worth it?”

Driven by his drunkenness, Carter continued to express, “As long as shehas a good life, I will not ruin her marriage.”

“She is living very well now. Her husband loves her, and her baby will beborn in a few months. Can't you see she has a happy family?” Tiffanypersuaded earnestly. “Four years ago, when you abandoned her and lether bear the debt alone, you should have expected this outcome.”After a pause, she advised, “Carter, don't drink anymore. Go back, takea bath, and sleep well. It will be a new start tomorrow. Work hard, moveon to replace a beautiful and capable girlfriend, and then get married andhave children.”

Carter opened another bottle of beer and kept filling his belly. “Tiffany,do you think Amelia still has a place in her heart for me?”

Tiffany's temperament was reaching its limit. She couldn't figure outwhy she sacrificed her night of good beauty sleep to accompany thisdrunkard on the phone.

“Dude, you are drunk. Go back and take a good bath and sleep. Whenyou wake up, everything will be fine.”

Carter started singing instead.

Tiffany had never seen Carter so despaired. She started to worry.

She asked caringly, “Carter, are you okay?"

“Nuh-uh.” Carter was blatantly honest, likely due to being under theinfluence of alcohol. “In the past few years, I was not happy at all. I havebeen thinking about Amelia and how she was doing? How did she payher debts? I left at that time, but I have been thinking of ways to payher debts. But after I came back, she was no longer there. Do you knowhow happy I was when she contacted me again? But I was devastatedto replace out that she was already married.”

Tiffany was speechless.

Is it worthy for a man to be trapped in past love and refused to facereality?

Carter was still chattering endlessly. “Amelia, I have never stop lovingyou. I have loved you for so many years. Why did you marry someoneRise?”

Tiffany was sure that he was drunk. Otherwise, Carter, who used to beintroverted and calm, would not be so emotional.

“Where are you?”

Carter spitted out an unclear address.

“Wait for me there. I am on my way.”

Tiffany hung up the phone and got changed immediately. She took theelevator downstairs to the parking lot, got in her car, and drove out.Maybe because it was midnight, the road was not busy at all. It tookonly about forty-five minutes for her to get to the riverside mentionedby Carter.

She got out of the car, locked the car, and leaped to the riverside. Shespotted Carter sitting alone on the shore. Empty beer bottles werestrewn haphazardly all around him.

Tiffany wrinkled her nose and picked up her pace. “Hey, how much winehave you drunk? Why are there beer bottles everywhere?”

Carter raised his head, looking confused. “Oh, why are you here?”

“If 1 don’t come, are you going to drink till death by the river?”

He grabbed her wrist forcefully, and she fell, sitting next to him.

“Hey, jinx. What the hell are you doing?” Tiffany retorted.

Carter chuckled lightly. “I just wanted you to sit down and chat withme."

He opened a bottle of wine, handed it to Tiffany. “Tiffany, thank you,although you keep saying I'm a jinx, but you still care about me.Otherwise, you wouldn't have shown up here in the middle of thenight.”

Tiffany denied stiffly, “I'm just worried that you'll die out here in thewilderness from alcohol poisoning. It will only cause trouble for thepolice.”

Carter still smiled. “Tiffany, Amelia is lucky to have a friend like you.”Tiffany lay next to him, drank a sip of beer. “Of course, but Amelia is awoman who deserves to be loved.”

Perhaps it was because of the pleasant atmosphere by the riverside.Tiffany forgot about her previous prejudices towards Carter and starteddrinking with him.

By then, Carter was almost wasted, and he began speaking morecarelessly. “Amelia had a hard time during those years, right?”

Tiffany glanced at him once. “Your family almost forced her off the cliff.If Amelia hadn't meet Oscar, I'm afraid she will be in prison now. Sowhat do you say of her suffering?”

Carter's eyes were a bit red. He tipped over the beer bottle in his handsand drained every last drop of the toxic liquid.

Tiffany raised her hand and patted him on the shoulder. “Honestly,Amelia has never blamed you, so don't blame yourself.”

Carter smiled bitterly and asked, “You said Amelia once liked me. Is thattrue?”

Tiffany nodded. “Amelia did like you, but it was a long time ago. Nowshe has her own family. Come on, man, try to replace a woman that suitsyour heart and your family's heart as soon as possible. Your effort ofreplaceing your Cinderella would be in vain if your family threw a monkeywrench into your plan.”

Carter's heart was full of bitterness.

Tiffany patted him on the shoulder again like a brother. “Don’t thinktoo much. You should let go like a man.”

Carter kept on drinking silently.

“It's getting late. Let me take you back. If the news about you drunkenbe published, not only the shares of the Scott Group, I am afraid that itwill even destroy the company you created.”

Carter still held a beer bottle in his hand, gazing at the river. “Pleasechat with me a little longer.”

Tiffany clasped her head in both hands. “Man, stop messing around. Weare not fifteen anymore. If you miss a relationship, just start a new one.Even the supporting actor in love drama won't be such a p*ssy.”“Supporting actor?” Carter glanced at her. “So, in your eyes, I am just asupporting character in Amelia's story.”

“Isn't that true?” Tiffany shrugged casually. “The girl in the dramaalways loves the arrogant boss. And the nice handsome guy is alwaysjust a friend.”

Carter was left with a wry smile.

“Come on, jinx. Let's go. It will be dawn in a few hours, and you stillhave to go to work tomorrow.”

Carter stood up, threw the bottle in his hand, and said, “Let's go.”

They got in Tiffany's car. Tiffany fastened her seat belt and asked, “Is itokay to leave your car here?”

“Tomorrow, I will ask someone to drive it back.”

“The tycoon’s life is indeed different. You can afford a new car anytime,so there is no big problem even if it is stolen.”

On the way, she started speaking. “Honestly, when I first met you, I hada good impression of you. With your appearance and your background,you are simply the Prince Charming for most girls. If it weren't for yourfamily or what happened later, I would agree for Amelia to be with you.Imagine you were the one that has a family of three with her.”

Carter leaned on the back seat and closed his eyes, hiding the agony inhis eyes.

Tiffany did not speak anymore and drove the car intently. It took almostforty minutes to get to the area where Carter lived.

“We are here. You can get off.”

Carter opened the door and reminded Tiffany. “Tiffany, don't tell Ameliaabout my getting drunk tonight.”