Chapter 261

After Neal delivered his ultimatum, he angrily hung up. Wendy squeezed out a few tears and said, "Zach, I'm not pretending. I just didn't expect…" Zach was clearly frustrated by the misunderstanding, but when he saw the tears welling in Wendy's eyes, he couldn't bring himself to blame her for the mistake she hadn't meant to make. "You didn't know, so I won't hold it against you," he said with a helpless smile. With that, he tossed the bouquet to the ground and crushed it beneath his foot. If the woman he intended to propose to hadn't even bothered to show up, what was the point of keeping the flowers? Wendy stared at the scattered rose petals, feeling as if her own heart had been trampled. Did Zach really despise her that much? Her sorrow quickly turned to anger. She couldn't just sit back and do nothing. Even if Zach didn't love her now, she believed that once she reached Serena's level, he would eventually return to her. … A few days later, the Larson family's charity gala