NovelApexChapter 56
“Fine, fine!” | raised my glass. “To love that eludes us.”
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Love had eludedtoo, hadn't it? 1 had made so many sacrifices for Edward, only to be abandoned in the end.
It seemed | finally found the one thing | had In common with a man as privileged as Soren, after all.
He clinked his glass against mine, but before he drank, he stopped. “Do you still love your ex?”
| took a sip of my red wine. “Nah. But it does take tto completely remove him from my mind we were
together for years.”
“I figured,” he replied.
“And a minor correction: he’s hardly my ex-husband in the eyes of the law. It's a load of crap, but the long and
short of it is that | have a feeling we won't be legally separated for a while,” | complained.
Our second appointment was tomorrow, but | was worried he would be a no-show again. If he pulled that stunt,
I'd have no choice but to sue him.
I didn’t want to do that, though, simply because the legal procedures would be too time-consuming. | was busy
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Soren scanned my face and asked, “He can't let go, can he?
too
| laughed bitterly. “Sure. The question is, what's the thing he can’t let go of? Our relationship... oras his life-
saving blood supplier?”
Soren looked baffled.
“He suffered from a long-term illness before and needed multiple blood transfusions. He has a rare blood type-
which, as it turns out, | share. So, | was the one who donated much of my blood to help him,” | explained.
“It's absurd, isn’t it? Maybe I'm the main character in a soap opera. Where else can you find something so
ridiculous in real life?”
Soren wore an unreadable expression. After a while, he finally replied, “You're too good for him in every way. He
doesn’t deserve you.”
I nodded. “Exactly! So, I'm glad | at least got out of that trag.
Soren could tell I hated talking about this, so he didn’t press for more.
The dinner lasted two hours. We kept chatting about all sorts of things. It felt like two friends having a reunion.
After that, | brought up the 40,000,000 dollars and told him | wanted to repay him.
At first, Soren insisted it wasn’t urgent. But | shoved the slegal documents | had prepared last tinto his
hands again.
If | couldn’t pay him back in five years, he could acquire my company.
| was so determined that he caved and signed the papers.
That night, after returning home, | gazed at his signature and non the documents. His handwriting was firm,
strong, and confident.
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That was it. My brain could no longer stop itself from fantasizing.
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In my defense, Soren was just so incredibly perfect and exceptional! Everything he did was mesmerizing. How
was anyone supposed to keep it together?
| just felt blessed to have met someone who could helpwalk out of the pain and gloom Edward had left me
in.
Still, that didn’t mean | was losing the plot.
- My admiration for him was one-sided. Nothing more, nothing less.
He had someone he liked. His family had already made arrangements regarding his love life, too.
As for me? | was someone from the lower rungs of the social hierarchy.
| could never reach his prestige. Thus, fantasizing on my own was all | had.
My phone kept vibrating.
Jean was calling forto spill the tea. She had this conspiracy theory that Soren and | were already secret
lovers or something.
| told her the Kenways were simply incredibly good people through and through, but she wouldn't believe it.
Jean: [Don’t sell yourself short! Don’t you know you're the queen of every socialite and elite lady in Metropolis?
Who's got beauty and talent like you, Tay-Tay?!]
Jean: [You should actually try before you give up, sis! He hasn't gotten together with his dream girl yet! So get
out there and makeforget about her!]
Jean: [Oh man, if you manage to bag Soren as your new boyfriend and then show up in front of those two
jackasses -fucking sick!!!}
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