Chapter 229

He’ll come back, won’t he? He has to. As long as she kept hurting herself like this, eventually he’d give in and let go. And once she left, that was it. No getting back together. Never. “Mr. Sterling, are you still going to that dinner with Mr. Brown tonight?” Lila Glenn called as Lucian Sterling was leaving the villa in Southridge. “Yeah. Set me up with dinner plans every night from now on. Don’t leave a single evening open.” No matter how busy he got, he used to have dinner with Ariella Rios every night. Now, he just wanted to fill every moment up, so he wouldn’t even have the time to think about that damn woman. Ariella splashed herself with cold water. As she expected, the fever came creeping in again. She didn't tell anyone. Her temperature kept rising, her head spinning worse by the minute. That hazy, weightless feeling almost felt good. Like she was slipping away. And death didn’t seem so scary anymore—it at least meant she wouldn’t have to think about the person she now hated m