Chapter 17
Chapter 17
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Rosella’s engagement with Elliot was down the drain. To get rid of her, Lamont wanted her to be Luigi’s burden, which wasn’t right. In her eyes, she was already ruined, and she shouldn’t drag anyone down.
As for Elliot–he was a playa in the accompany of another woman. If he wanted to get married to her, she’d say yes and turn a blind eye to his affairs.
But unlike Elliot, Luigi was a decent man.
Luigi nodded truthfully. “Yes.”
“I’ll talk to Mr. Rowe. I won’t put you in a difficult position,” she said.
Luigi almost blurted out, “I’m not in one.”
The branch office of the Rowe Group was in the same building as Millard’s branch.
Millard was on the phone when he walked forward in the dim underground parking garage where no one else was around. Suddenly, Rosella appeared in his sight out of nowhere.
She was standing next to a white sedan, lowering her head and
stroking the pendant of the necklace around her neck.
She was smiling.
It seemed the pendant was something important to her.
Millard hung up the phone, walked over, and said sarcastically, “Where’s Luigi? He left you alone here?”
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Rosella was surprised that he had struck up a conversation with her. After all, he had never done this before.
She smiled, no longer looking sad at the mention of Luigi, “He left his car keys upstairs and has to go fetch them.”
Millard asked again, his tone flat, “Then why aren’t you buttering Elliot up anymore?”
Sensing the sarcasm in his voice, she still smiled, “I broke off our engagement.”
“Really? What changed your mind?”
Her neck was fair and slender, and the silver pendant was snowflake- shaped, likely custom–made. He reached out, wanting to touch it. “What’s this?”
Before he could, Rosella swatted his hand away, looking all defensive and wary while guarding the pendant. But it was she who had said she’d give Millard anything as long as he wanted it.
Now, he couldn’t even touch a pendant?
“Just a gift from Luigi. It’s not valuable.”
Millard clenched his fist, overwhelmed by a wave of bitterness. “You used to wear antique gemstones. Why are you taking cheap stuff like this so seriously?”
Clutching the “snowflake“, she replied firmly, “It’s very precious to me.”
It was a gift from Luigi.
Luigi was the only person who was willing to marry her, and his earnest love was the thing that mattered to her, the thing she’d begged
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from Millard’s stone heart for years. Of course, she’d do her best to make sure Luigi’s love was worth it.
Millard laughed as if he had heard the biggest joke. “I gave you things, too. How come you didn’t take them so seriously?”
Things? What things?
Was he referring to the bag he tossed into her arms with disgust on her birthday?
She knew later that the bag was something dumped by the Dunn family’s maid.
Millard continued to pour himself with drinks, and Dewey couldn’t bear to watch anymore.
He snatched Millard’s glass and said, “Why are you drinking this much? Who messed with you?”
Millard was already a bit drunk. In his blurred vision, he saw Rosella getting into Luigi’s car and leaving with a smile. It occurred to him that ever since she came back, she barely smiled. Even when she smiled, it was a forced one, more like a tug at her lips.
But her smile when she was with Luigi seemed genuine.
“Mollie wants Luigi to marry Rosella now?” Millard’s sudden words shocked Dewey.
It had been days since Dewey’s last visit home, and he had no idea. “Luigi? Are you kidding me?”
Millard said, “I saw them together.”
Dewey composed himself and said, “I guess that makes sense. Now that Rosella won’t get to marry Elliot, Mom will just pawn her off on
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Luigi. I weep for Luigi, being forced to wed another man’s leftovers.”
“Being forced?” Millard scoffed. “He didn’t look forced to me.”
“That’s probably because he has always had feelings for Rosella.”
Millard’s expression darkened.
Dewey was stunned. “You didn’t know? Gee. You really didn’t care about her at all, huh?”
Luigi came from a poor, single–parent family. His mother raised him up, and after getting a job at the Rowe Group, he worked hard to be Lamont’s youngest and most diligent assistant, always doing menial tasks others despised including picking up and dropping off Rosella.
Given time, they became close, which was only natural.
Luigi needed love, and it made sense that he fell for Rosella, who was outgoing and bright.
Just because Millard looked down upon her didn’t mean everyone else felt the same.
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