Chapter 42

Every word he said was condemning her for her cruel determination. "Matthew—" Simona felt that she should say something. She wanted to say, "I'll do whatever you want, just to make you feel better." But she couldn't utter such shameless words. Besides, those words will be as useless as 'I'm sorry', it will only serve as an obstacle to her already ragged breathing. "Shush!" He raised his index finger and pressed it on her lips. She watched him curl his lips into a smile. "In the past five years, you didn't even come to visit me. You ruthless woman, that was cruel even for me." Matthew's words were very slow, he said it word by word. One stab after the other in her heart. In the past five years, she had never cried once, but now because of Matthew, all her emotions have exploded. She wasn't born with a heart of iron and stone, she wasn't as ruthless on the surface as he said she was. She never visited Matthew once in five years, not because she was cruel, but she simply did