Chapter 9

I fell silent as I looked at Selene, the woman who had repeatedly caused me so much pain and kept me awake for countless nights in the past six months. In fact, I had reached out to her at the beginning. I had been straightforward with her and told her I was willing to leave if she liked David. After all, I knew happiness couldn't be forced. But Selene had simply looked at me with a little disdain and a little pity. That was how she always looked at me. Perhaps she was proud that she was the dominant one in our three-person relationship, so she always acted high and mighty. She watched as I painfully told her that I would give them my blessing, and she simply let out a chuckle. "No wonder David says it's getting more and more tiring to be with you. He and I are just friends. Our relationship can't get any simpler than that. Why must you let your imagination run wild? "No matter how much you love someone, he has to socialise with others. You can't bind him to you and stop him f