CHAPTER 66: CHAPTER 66: SEEING HIM WITH HIS FIANCÉE, ANNELISE BREAKS DOWN

Even if she had replayed the scene of Elias Warner being with another woman in her mind countless times,

when it truly unfolded before her eyes, her heart still hurt this much.

She clutched her chest and ran out of the villa.

She ran several hundred meters until the villa was far behind her.

The dark clouds overhead loomed, thunder exploded, and the autumn rain seemed even fiercer than summer rain.

Like a torrential downpour, it mercilessly drenched Annelise Winter.

Accompanied by the reckless sound of the wind.

Annelise’s face was already indistinguishable between tears and rain.

Her dress was soaked through.

It wasn’t until she couldn’t cry anymore, until she thought of her daughter Luna, that she stumbled and hailed a taxi.

Though her heart felt dead, Luna still needed her.

She couldn’t just collapse like this.

Annelise hailed a taxi.

The driver was a kind-hearted uncle, who, seeing how soaked Annelise was, asked with concern, "Miss, didn’t you bring an umbrella? Where’s your husband? A pretty girl like you should have a boyfriend, right?"

The emotions Annelise had just managed to gather were unraveled by the uncle’s questions, and her lips trembled.

"No!"

"No? Miss, listen to someone who’s been there. Sometimes life isn’t just about love, it’s about the essentials of life, it’s enough to be with someone suitable."

The uncle continued to say a lot more, but Annelise didn’t catch any of it clearly.

Because she was exhausted, physically and mentally, she didn’t want to think about anything, she just wanted to lie down and rest properly.

Living was just too tiring.

Inside the villa.

From the moment Annelise pushed open the villa door until she left, a woman had been watching her the whole time.

It wasn’t until Annelise disappeared from the doorway that the woman finally smiled.

Satisfied, she picked up the clothes scattered on the floor.

It seemed like everything that had just happened never happened at all.

At eight o’clock in the evening, Elias Warner finished the new season’s pilot training plan in his study and looked up to see the sky had turned dark.

Outside, the rain was pouring, with flashes of lightning and claps of thunder.

Elias looked at his watch, then furrowed his brows in cold displeasure.

She didn’t come? Or didn’t bring an umbrella!

The rain was too heavy, and in the end, with a grim expression, he decided to go out to see where Annelise had gone.

He got up and walked downstairs.

Unexpectedly, sitting in the dimly lit living room downstairs was a beautiful woman who resembled a wallflower.

But this woman was not who he had been expecting.

He frowned.

Standing on the steps above her, dressed in a black robe that made him look noble and pristine, he asked in a cold voice, "Why are you here? How did you get in?"

Elias’s cold voice, combined with the autumn wind outside, made the woman shiver.

Elias seemed not to care about her answer at all, directly calling Annelise in front of her.

But the call went unanswered.

His brow furrowed even more tightly.

Did she treat his words as background noise?

So, did she not come at all, or did she come?

Elias looked at the torrential rain outside the window, then towards the villa entrance.

The doorway was brightly lit, reflecting even the raindrops in the autumn storm with clarity.

But there was no sign of anyone.

The woman on the sofa watched Elias’s every move clearly.

His worry and anticipation were evident in his eyes.

She felt a pang in her heart.

It hurt a little.

She was clearly his fiancée, yet he was worrying about someone else.

How ironic.

After all these years, she had liked him for so long.

Yet Elias had never cast her a single glance.

Not once had he ever looked at her.

The woman clenched her fists tightly, got up, and walked step by step to Elias, looking up at him.

"Elias, it’s raining so hard outside, you wouldn’t drive me away, would you?"

The woman gazed at his slightly exposed chest, the muscles faintly visible.

She couldn’t help but want to take another glance.

But Elias stepped back, opening the distance between them, not giving her a single chance to get closer.

"I asked you, how did you get in?"

The same question again, but when he asked her, it was as if he were interrogating her.

"Ms. Warner gave me the code, saying we’re about to get engaged, and she asked me to move in to get closer to you and build a relationship."

The woman answered shakily.

But she was watching for any micro-expressions on his face.

Every expression could tug at her emotions.

It was clear he didn’t like her moving in.

Today she had deliberately dressed more provocatively, the softness of her chest barely concealed, as long as he glanced down, he would see.

Any man should find it hard to resist a figure like hers.

But Elias acted as if he saw nothing.

"The code will be changed! Please leave, you’re not welcome here! Without my permission, don’t come in again!"

The woman’s eyes glistened with tears of grievance.

"I understand, I won’t come to bother you again, it’s all my fault!"

Elias directly called Renee Perry.

"Mom, why did you give the house code to an outsider?"

"Outsider? Elias? Isn’t she your acknowledged fiancée?! Sooner or later you two will be family. I gave her the house code so you could try living together to foster affection, what’s wrong with that?"

"No more next time!!"

Elias had never been this angry.

"Elias, how are you speaking to your mother? If you don’t let your fiancée in, who else do you want living there? Don’t tell me it’s Annelise!"

"You know I don’t like having my life dictated by anyone. If you decide whether I get engaged or not, then there will be no engagement!"

Elias hung up the phone abruptly.

The woman pressed her lips together.

Tears streamed down like rain.

This was his marital home, and he had waited for Annelise all night.

If she hadn’t found out the secret between him and Annelise, discovered that he forced Annelise to meet,

who knows, maybe he and Annelise would have already ended up in bed together.

How was she lacking compared to Annelise?

Why did they treat her like this?

"You should go, don’t come here again."

Her heart was broken, but she was proud.

She gritted her teeth, preventing herself from making a scene, knowing that causing trouble now might completely ruin her chances.

So she left without noise or fuss.

At least, he and Annelise had another misunderstanding, which meant she still had a chance.

Just when the woman left, Elias grabbed an umbrella and headed outside the villa.