Elias Hawthorne didn’t say anything.
Raina North angrily retorted, "You just plan to leave me right after this? Are you even human?"
If it weren’t for the hairdryer still in his hand, Elias Hawthorne would have suddenly thought he had somehow wronged an innocent girl, to be accused so indignantly.
Seeing Elias Hawthorne silent, Raina North got even angrier, "I knew it; I knew you were just another heartless jerk. It turns out all men are terrible!"
Elias Hawthorne frowned slightly, "Stop making a scene."
"Making a scene? You actually call this a scene?" Raina North looked shocked, her eyes slightly red as if she was deeply aggrieved.
Elias Hawthorne glanced at Raina North, said nothing, and started to leave.
"Hey!" Raina North flared up immediately, surprised that Elias Hawthorne was actually leaving. Unable to restrain herself, she leapt forward and tightly hugged Elias Hawthorne from behind, "Who gave you permission? Where are you planning to go? Tell me honestly, did you make plans with some floozy outside?"
"Saying my name won’t help. If you don’t come clean, I definitely won’t let you go!" Raina North exclaimed as she tightened her slender arms around Elias Hawthorne’s neck, climbing onto him.
Elias Hawthorne felt a slight headache, raising the hairdryer in his hand: "Just planning to put it down."
Suddenly, the hairdryer was snatched away, thrown aside with a bang. Raina North leaned close to the man’s ear, her warm breath tinged with the rich scent of red wine, her voice hoarse: "There, it’s settled. Elias Hawthorne, you can now only look at me."
Elias Hawthorne took a deep breath, lifted his hand to grasp Raina North’s wrist, pulling her arms away from his neck, "Raina, you’re drunk, stop making a scene."
"Yes, I’m indeed drunk, very much so." Raina North slid off the man’s back.
Though it was he who had pushed Raina North away, as her soft and fragrant body truly left him, Elias Hawthorne’s heart still surged with immense loss.
Almost uncontrollably, he reached out, wanting to pull Raina North back.
But in the end, he didn’t.
Elias Hawthorne knew something felt off with his state lately.
Perhaps it started changing since he recognized Raina at that meeting, yet he ignored it.
Until the day Raina visited The Hades Clan and got proposed to, all the repressed emotions surged forth.
Knowing Raina’s past, knowing she has Casper and Shea as her kids, it only made Elias’s heart ache over Raina’s past sufferings, wishing to cherish her forever without any worries.
But, Raina’s ten boyfriends as Orion Rivers were different; no matter why they were together, she acknowledged them.
What’s worse is that they were all people Raina went out of her way to pursue.
Especially Corvus Hades.
No matter how much Raina despised him, Elias could clearly sense Corvus’s special significance to her. Follow current novels on nοvelfire.net
Yet Elias Hawthorne knew he had no right to be jealous, no grounds to be dissatisfied, just as Quinn Thorne once said, since fate let him meet Raina too late, hence came all the hurdles.
Elias Hawthorne could understand, but he couldn’t get over it.
If he were the first to meet Raina, those messy people wouldn’t have stood between him and Raina, nor dared to boldly propose.
Unfortunately, that was just an if.