Chapter 282. Unspoken Confession

Harper gave a firm shake of her head. “I’ll never be able to forget the humiliation from the previous three days. Please leave.”

After leaving the one sentence behind, Harper got back up to walk up the stairs without a single glance at Preston, as if to have gotten over him.

With his eyes on the unbothered figure from behind, Preston’s heart seemed to have been seized, sore, and aching.

Obviously, with his drunken messed-up thoughts, his injury, and by insisting to stay over at her house, he could blurt out anything he wanted to, regardless of whether it was appropriate.

Yet, for some reason, he couldn’t bring himself to say, “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have done that to you.”

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In the Knight Manor, Griffon took Taya’s hand as they came to the garden after dinner… In the garden where all different flowers had been in full bloom, only a wide spread of lychee-pink roses were available at the moment. The tangy aroma of lychees refreshingly wafted into