Ignored When Chasing: Why Cry After I Got Engaged-Chapter 117: It’s a Pity He’s Long Dead

Cecilia Nathan froze for a moment.

Damian Hawthorne’s voice faltered, and his expression stiffened. ’I can’t believe I just said something like that.’

Cecilia smiled teasingly, as if she had long since seen through him. "Damian Hawthorne, don’t tell me... you’ve fallen in love with me?"

Her mocking question made Damian’s face turn cold. "I will never fall in love with anyone, and especially not you."

"I just never expected the person who claimed to like me to be so fickle."

"Fickle?" A faint smile touched Cecilia’s lips. "No matter how fickle I am, I can’t compare to Mr. Hawthorne and his reputation as a playboy."

Their sarcastic words left no room for reconciliation between them.

"A playboy..." Damian sneered. "And how are you any better?"

"You pursued me while you clearly had Hugo in your heart. Compared to me being a playboy, isn’t what you did even worse?" Damian raised an eyebrow at her, an unreadable emotion swirling in his eyes.

"I remember you proposing to me just a month ago."

"Yes, but that was all a lie." Cecilia was smiling, but inside, she was in unbearable pain.

’When I proposed, I was serious. It was because I was pregnant back then.’

’But later, the baby’s test results were bad, and I had no choice but to terminate the pregnancy. I never blamed Damian for it.’

’It’s my body. If I had wanted to give birth, no one could have stopped me.’

’By the same token, if I didn’t want the child, no one could have saved it.’

’The decision to have an abortion was always mine to make.’

But this was the first time she had ever confronted Damian so directly.

"Back then, I just wanted to get the child registered. If I had wanted to give birth, I would have found another man even without you."

As Cecilia’s words fell, Damian’s brown eyes constricted.

’If Cecilia hadn’t brought it up, he would have almost forgotten that they once had a child together.’

’She would have found another man... ’

’So, in Cecilia’s eyes, he was just an accessory for the child.’

"Damian Hawthorne, I wanted you to see him that day. Even though he wasn’t fully formed, just a bloody mess, he was still a life. A pity you were off having a romantic time with Serena Hughes..."

Cecilia’s every word was like a thousand needles, stabbing mercilessly into his heart.

Damian closed his eyes and clenched his fists.

’At the time, he thought Serena Hughes was Luna, so he took her to the old house where he and Luna had lived for a long time.’

’That was the place where he had first met Luna, and it was also where he had regained his sight.’

’He never imagined he would be completely played by Serena, and on top of that, he missed Cecilia’s procedure.’

"I had Hugo Grant go see you back then..." Damian pressed his lips together as he spoke.

’Cecilia was right. In the end, he wasn’t there.’

’No wonder she left the Hawthorne Family without a single look back.’

"Now, I’ve left you. Damian Hawthorne, I don’t like you anymore," Cecilia said with a smile. "I’m not coming back."

’Not coming back... ’

"You’re not coming back because Miles Sinclair has returned, right?" Damian’s brown eyes were filled with ice. "Too bad Miles Sinclair died a long time ago."

The atmosphere grew frigid, and you could hear a pin drop.

A sharp pain suddenly pierced Cecilia’s chest.

"Damian Hawthorne, I never hear a kind word from you. Hugo is still alive. Don’t you dare curse him."

"Alive?" Damian closed the distance between them, placing both hands on her shoulders with a somewhat malevolent smile. "You love your Hugo so much, but you can’t even recognize what he really looks like anymore?"

"The dead cannot be brought back to life. Everything you’re doing is just self-deception." 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

SMACK! Cecilia angrily slapped his hands off her shoulders.

His arms were firm with muscle, and the impact made her hand ache, but no physical pain could compare to the gaping hole in her heart.

Damian’s words had torn open the wound in her heart, and a cold, painful wind seemed to howl through it.

"If you came here just to say all this, then you’ve achieved your goal." Cecilia was so angry she clutched her chest, struggling to breathe.

Ever since Hugo’s accident all those years ago, she had suffered from heart palpitations.

She had been to the hospital several times, but they only said it was a psychosomatic stress response to Hugo’s death.

Watching Cecilia in distress, Damian pressed his lips together tightly and remained silent for a long time.

Her pain pained him too.

But what he couldn’t accept was that she loved Miles Sinclair to such an extent.

"Damian Hawthorne, Hugo is standing right in front of me, alive and well. From now on, please don’t you ever use the word ’dead’ to describe him again." Cecilia took a deep breath, finally managing to calm her racing heart.

"Fine, Cecilia. I just hope you don’t regret this later."

In the end, he couldn’t bear to provoke her any further.

Damian knew that Cecilia’s heart was now completely filled with Miles Sinclair.

Hugo Grant was right. He hadn’t cherished her back then, so what right did he have now to interfere in her love life?

He understood the principle, but putting it into practice was not as easy as he had imagined.

Just then, his assistant, Justin Bell, called.

"President Hawthorne, we have news about Miss Luna!"

...

Linden Nathan had just finished a meeting at his hotel when he received a call from Cecilia.

"There’s something I need to tell you," Cecilia said, getting straight to the point.

Linden Nathan was naturally happy to receive a call from Cecilia.

Over the years, Cecilia had rarely called him on her own initiative.

"I’m meeting a friend at The Heart’s Content Cafe in Korsyth this afternoon. You can come over after I’m done seeing him."

Although he was the head of the Nathan Family, he seemed to get busier the closer he got to retirement age.

"Okay." Cecilia’s voice was flat as she calmly hung up the phone.

She intended to tell Linden Nathan in person about Sharon Quincy hiring someone to run her down.

The Heart’s Content Cafe.

Frances Bennett sat leisurely by the window, wearing sunglasses and carrying an H Brand bag.

"Are you sure Linden Nathan is coming today?" Frances Bennett sent a message to her assistant.

Although she had her own connections, Linden Nathan’s schedule was rarely disclosed to others.

She had tried to schedule a meeting with him, only to find he was booked solid for the next month.

Left with no other choice, she could only try to stage a "chance" encounter with him at a place like this.

After being played so badly by Sharon Quincy, she was determined to set Sharon up with a fifty-year-old man from the Hawthorne Family.

He was one of the children the elder Mr. Hawthorne had adopted years ago. While not exactly a "normal" person, he was more than a fitting match for an orphan like Sharon Quincy.

"I’m sure of it, President Bennett. Just wait. Mr. Nathan has an appointment here and is already on his way."