Myra looked at the man before her with an apathetic expression as though she didn’t see anything just now. She merely said impassively to him, “I have given Mrs. Chase the document you gave me, Director Chase. I won’t accept the share transfer agreement; I may have my attorney cooperate in the follow-up procedures after you amend it. I just hope that you won’t bring us into more trouble by making such issues again in the future.”
With that, she turned around and left the Chase Group right away. She believed that with Eve’s current hostility toward her, the latter would do everything she could to force Sean to take back the document after she read it—this would save her a lot of trouble.
However, she had just taken two steps when her arm was grabbed from behind. “Myra, wait—”
“Let go of me!” She reflexively broke free of Sean’s grasp and looked at him warily.
Sean felt a bit sad when he saw the look in Myra’s eyes. Then, as if the apathy he displayed toward Eve just now no longer existed, he said to Myra with a pained expression, “Myra, I’m already in the process of divorcing Lyla. I’ll go through the formalities very soon—”
“This is none of my business.” Myra shook her head. Back when she loved him, she hoped that he could transfer his affections for Lyla to her. However, she no longer had feelings for him right now. Even if Sean offered the entire world to her at this moment, she wouldn’t be swayed anymore.
“I only hated your guts back then because of her concealment!” Sean no longer touched Myra, but his hands clenched tightly into fists at his sides. “Had I known back then that she was lying to me, I wouldn’t have been so cold toward you for so many years, Myra—”
“You’ve said these words to me before, Director Chase,” Myra interrupted him impatiently. Then, she lowered her head and pretended to check the time. “I have something else to attend to later, so I’ll be leaving first.”
Sean stood in front of her right away. “Wait a minute!”
They were in the Chase Group’s ground floor lobby, so many saw their dispute as they came and went. Myra felt deeply uncomfortable, for she didn’t want to give rise to any slanderous gossip; even if there was nothing between them, she didn’t want Tony to get involved in this and be remarked on. When Sean tried to stop her, she took out her cell phone right away. “I have nothing to talk to you about, Director Chase. If you don’t get out of my way, I can only call the police.”
Sean had a hurt and remorseful look in his eyes. “Myra, do you really want our relationship to come to this point?!”
“You’ve misunderstood me, Director Chase—I don’t have any other purpose. I just want to leave, that’s all.” Myra looked emotionless before she continued, “It doesn’t matter if you want to talk to me about our past or Tony, Director Chase; none of this is necessary. Also, stop keeping my affairs in your mind. Don’t do what you did with the Stark Group’s shares again, for I don’t want anyone else to misunderstand that there’s something between us.”
“Misunderstand? Did Tony misunderstand you?” Sean asked immediately.
Myra let out a faint sneer, though one didn’t know whether it was a sneer of ridicule or a sneer with emotion. She looked Sean square in the eye. “He has always believed me. Perhaps you’re unwilling to admit it, but the days I’ve spent with him are the happiest days of my life. I love him, Director Chase.”
I love him… I love him… I love him… Sean had been hearing this sentence a lot recently, for Myra explicitly said she liked and loved Tony. Myra was right; he just didn’t want to admit it. He thought that there was still a chance for them to get back together…
“Myra, you were the one who single-handedly saved the Chase Group. If you want it, I’m willing to transfer the entire Chase Group under your name—”
“I don’t want it,” Myra interrupted him again with an expressionless face. “I don’t want something that isn’t mine—especially when it’s yours, Director Chase.”
With that, she left right away amid Sean’s stupefaction.
Sean opened his mouth and tried to say something, but he felt that he had never known Myra so well at this moment. Myra had always been such a woman; back when she was still together with him, she stayed by his side without hesitation and was never afraid that she might be implicated if the Chase Group went bankrupt. Moreover, she never demanded anything undue from him except for his love.
But now, she no longer needed his love when he was willing to give it…
A strong feeling of grief and remorse enveloped Sean, for he suddenly realized that Myra had really left him. She didn’t love him anymore, and she had found another partner with whom she would live happily ever after. She would gradually forget everything she used to share with him. She’ll slowly forget about me, won’t she?
Sean had never been so sober as he watched Myra walking out of his sight and his life; he had really lost her this time.
He didn’t notice Lyla, who looked at all of this apathetically from a short distance away.
The ups and downs in Lyla’s life over the years and the days she spent adrift had made her see through the ways of the world a long time ago. She slowly became materialistic, but what she experienced these days made her feel as though she had reached the end of her journey through life.
She was really tired of living in this glorious social class behind different masks of hypocrisy, so she agreed to get a divorce without taking much of the Chase Group’s fortune. She took only two million, which was probably the money she used to spend in less than a few months. However, she no longer cared about it; it was as if she was merely going through the formalities for the divorce.
She turned around and left the Chase Group. Then, she hailed a taxi outside and headed for the Walton Group where Gideon was.
…
After leaving the Chase Group, Myra went back to the Hart Residence instead of returning to her flower shop.
When Sebastian saw how early she had returned that day, he cast her a sidelong glance. “Did you two have a quarrel?” he asked before looking over her shoulder incredulously. However, he didn’t see the man, so he clicked his tongue twice. “This is so strange; the pair of Siamese twins have actually split up.”
Myra was amused by Sebastian’s description, but she gave him a glare. “Tony and I aren’t some Siamese twins, Old Master Hart.”
“You’re really becoming more and more unruly now; you even dare to glare at me. Tell me then—you two stick together every single day, so what are you if you’re not Siamese twins?” Sebastian asked right before the fixed-line telephone in the living room rang. He went over and picked up the receiver; upon hearing the voice on the other end of the line, he instantly turned to look at Myra speechlessly. Then, he said in resignation, “She’s home. Don’t worry; what else can happen to someone at her age… She looks fine with a ruddy complexion… All right, that’s enough. I shan’t waste my breath talking to you. You want to talk to her, don’t you?” Then, he beckoned to Myra. “Hurry up—it’s a call for you.”
“Is it a call from Tony?”
Sebastian rolled his eyes at Myra. “Who else other than him would call immediately to ask about your whereabouts when you’ve only been away from him for a short while?”
Myra’s face blushed slightly as she took the receiver. She then greeted, “Hello, Tony?”
“Uh-huh.” Tony had just returned to the Hart Group after a discussion he had outside, but when he called the flower shop, an employee told him that Myra had left. Upon hearing the employee’s run-down of what had happened, he figured that Myra went to the Chase Group to return the document given by Sean. However, he learned from the Chase Group that she had left the Chase Group’s premises, but he didn’t see her returning to the Hart Group. Hence, he simply called the Hart Residence.
Myra felt uncomfortable while speaking, for she saw Sebastian staring at her from the side. “Why didn’t you call me on my cell phone?”
“Your cell phone has been switched off.” Tony’s flat voice could be heard over the phone; even his voice alone made Myra feel incredibly relieved. She immediately searched through her handbag—which she had placed on the sofa next to her—and took out her cell phone. Indeed, it had been switched off. “Oh, that’s right. My cell phone was running out of battery when I was leaving the flower shop. After that, I went to the Chase Group and was held up for some time.” Since she had nothing to hide from Tony, she told him what happened when she went to the Chase Group; she did so because of the trust they placed in each other.
