Guidelines for the Perfect Goodbye - Chapter 122
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He has a lover. Is it not so anymore? No, as far as she knew, she was his long-time childhood friend.
So, they must have been together for a very long time.
‘Then why.’
A man with a lover, why on earth.
Bang!
She hit the desk without meaning to. Only her fist hurt. She buried her forehead in her fist and let out a long sigh.
“This is frustrating…”
He claimed to hate her, yet when she tried to cooperate in calling off the engagement, he refused.
‘What kind of man is this.’
He was her husband, but she couldn’t understand him at all.
‘If I tell him that his lover might die if he doesn’t break the engagement with me… would he then end it smoothly?’
Cecilia didn’t want such an ending. An ending where her biological mother committed murder because of her…
Thinking about it sent a chill down her spine, and she clenched her hands tightly.
‘Not Logan Harper.’
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Logan thought about Cecilia last night. She quickly noticed there was something foul in the tea.
If her only goal was to marry him, she would have just drunk the tea.
But Cecilia didn’t drink the tea. Instead, she signaled Logan with her eyes, as if to warn him.
‘Don’t drink it.’
In a way, it was an act of kindness,
and in another, it was an action based on her own purpose.
She was indifferent to him.
Indifferent?
No, it was a bit different.
At first, he thought it was just indifference.
But the look she gave him was different from mere disinterest.
‘Don’t drink it’ should be preceded by ‘Absolutely’.
‘Absolutely don’t drink it.’
‘Absolutely don’t fall for my father’s tricks.’
‘Absolutely.’
Absolutely… don’t try to continue this engagement with me.
Her gaze was more of a warning to herself.
And that warning carried a hint of disgust.
Logan could have gone along with it.
As she suggested, he could use this opportunity to break the engagement and head out to sea.
But he didn’t want to.
Because he loved her?
No, that wasn’t it.
It was because of the gap between the ‘obedient Cecilia’ that Adam described and the Cecilia he had seen for himself.
At first glance, she seemed quiet and docile.
But behind that, she knew all the cruel facts.
She knew that her father was a man who wouldn’t hesitate to ruin her honor and personally drug her to sell her off.
Even after confirming this with her own eyes, holding the tea in her hand, she remained calm.
As if she expected her father to act that way.
That attitude might have stirred some emotion within him.
Though he was dearly loved by his maternal family, he was still an illegitimate child.
As someone in a similar situation, he was curious about her true feelings.
In short… it was ‘interest’.
He wanted to know Cecilia a bit more in detail.
He wanted to know her for a bit longer and from a bit closer.
Therefore, it was too soon for a breakup.
He wasn’t ready to judge her yet.
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Later, Cecilia openly expressed her desire to break off the engagement to him.
But he avoided the topic like a slippery eel.
Even when she cornered him, he would just respond like this.
“Tell your father.”
This coward.
He knew full well that her father would never agree to break off the engagement just because she asked!
In the end, Cecilia had to bring up a painful truth she didn’t want to say.
In the drawing room, where she was alone with Logan, she sat down, suppressing the urge to grab him by the collar, and asked,
“If you’re engaged to me, what about your lover?”
“Lover?”
“Yes, the person you love.”
At Cecilia’s words, Logan tapped his glass for a moment.
Cecilia was half expecting that he would say, ‘I don’t have a lover.’
But he shrugged and said,
“What does my lover have to do with this engagement?”
