Chapter 278

Damien's heart gave a heavy thump, a feeling he'd only ever seen described in movies as a heart-fluttering moment. He had never experienced it in his life, and yet here it was. He tried to dismiss it, insisting that an erratic heartbeat was nothing unusual and certainly not a sign of being in love. But his heart kept racing, each breath growing heavier than the last. He felt like an idiot. Just getting a reply from Autumn had inexplicably lifted his spirits. But the warmth didn't last. It was quickly crushed beneath the weight of her hatred. A hatred so intense it was almost unbelievable. "If you truly love someone, you fall for them again and again. So what is this fierce resistance you feel toward me?" Autumn thought to herself that the last three years had been a complete waste of time. If everything she had done wasn't considered love, then what was? All of Damien's friends had called her a clingy doormat, yet he himself couldn't feel her love? He even had the audacity to q