Chapter 12
Landhall?
If he didn’t remember wrongly, Shyla’s aunt, she moved to Landhall, right?
Suddenly, the phone call from the party half a month ago came to mind.
Remembering the panic that flashed across Shyla’s face at that moment, Calvin vaguely guessed the truth..
A whole night of worries and anxiety, despair and pain, all turned into anger at this moment.
He took the bank card and clenched it in his hand, walking out aggressively.
The assistant followed closely behind, cautiously asking
“Mr. Gutierrez, where are we going now?”
Calvin’s face turned grim, as he squeezed out three words from between his teeth.
“Landhall”
The assistant quickly booked the next available flight.
During the twelve–hour flight, Calvin never closed his eyes.
His mind was in a mess, with various images flashing constantly, and his heart was entangled with countless emotions.
When playing at the amusement park with six or seven–year–old Shyla, he was happy.
When Shyla, who was eleven y years old, presided over her family’s funeral, she was compassionate.
He was grateful when he accompanied thirteen–year–old Shyla to overcome the gloom and regain her smile.
When he received the confession from seventeen–year–old Shyla, he was taken aback,
He felt sorry as he watched Shyla, who was twenty years old, slowly becoming silent.
And upon learning that Shyla, who was twenty–one years old, was going to leave him, he felt anger and despair of being abandoned.
Calvin understood why she had left.
But he couldn’t accept the fact that she wanted to leave, nor could he tolerate her escaping from him and going to a place so far away that he would find it difficult to see her again.
Before last night, he still had a trace of delusion in his heart.
He deluded himself with a take marriage to sever her unrealistic thoughts, so that she could peacefully stay by his side as his adopted daughter.
He thought that as long as they returned to the level of family affection, they would never separate.
He focused too much on the future, but ignored the present, and ignored Shyla’s stubborn and unpredictable personality.
Because she had experienced family changes in her childhood, her character was tougher than most people. Therefore, no matter how he rejected her, she refused to give up.
Because she had been dependent on others since childhood, she was not a secure person. Therefore, upon learning that he was going to get married, she could only feel that she was about to be abandoned, so she quietly left..
In this relationship, Calvin appeared to be in a dominant position, able to control everything.
Only he knew that he had always been the passive one, the one who was controlled,
Passively waiting for her confession, and passively rejecting her confession.
Passively wanting to get closer to her, and passively moving away from her
After repeatedly pulling and tugging, be finally exhausted Shyla’s patience.
She let go willingly.
He panicked, he was scared, he regretted it
It was not until Calvin reached the point of no per
Shyla’s love and lack of love were both too intense, too fiery, too grand
Intense to the point where he dared not admit it, scorching to the point where he dared not touch it, grand to the point where he dared not imagine it
He pretended to be drunk to approach ber timidly, has carefully concealed feelings, his fear of societal norms and gossip.
It all became a driving force for her to transition from love to not loving
Step by step, bit by bit, be finally pushed her to the other side
He got what he wanted.
But regretted not doing it in the first place
