Chapter 285

Louis chuckled. "So what you're really trying to say… is that you're Chester's woman now. I won't touch you." Angelina fell silent. "No. That's not what I meant," she muttered. Sure, she was scared of him touching her, but that wasn't the point she'd been trying to make. What she wanted to say was that she wasn't the Angelina he thought he loved, and it was time for him to wake up from his delusion. Her voice was barely audible. She tried to speak, but the words wouldn't come. Then Louis lowered his head, mumbling to himself, "Angie… I used to be afraid of a lot of things, mostly that I was too broke for you and that I didn't deserve you. I was also afraid that I couldn't give you what the Whitmores could." "But now… now that I've got a little money… all I'm scared of is seeing you hurt. Seeing you cry." Angelina could no longer hold her crouched position. Her legs gave out completely, and she collapsed onto the floor, curling into a ball. She had imagined her own death a hundr