Chapter 23
Scarlett immediately understood what was happening. She frowned and murmured, “Mr. Hall, I should just go back to my research.”
Turning on her heel, she headed for the exit. But before she could step into the hallway,
Harrison reached out and grabbed her wrist.
“Scarlett, why are you avoiding me?”
She pulled free and replied calmly, “I’m not avoiding you.”
His voice trembled with emotion as he said, “Liar. You saw me and tried to leave. If you really didn’t care about me, why can’t you even face me?”
Scarlett let out a weary sigh. Then, meeting his gaze head–on, she said evenly, “See? I’m not avoiding you. I told you already. I just don’t want to waste my time on you anymore. That’s all.
And that was the truth.
She had already wasted her entire lifetime in the last life and her youth in this one. She refused to let even a single second be tangled up with him again.
Harrison’s expression darkened with pain.
“I’m sorry, Scarlett. I was
wrong.”
The man who had always carried himself with arrogance now stood before her with his head bowed. His voice was quiet and pleading as he said, “Please, forgive me. I know I treated you terribly before, but I swear I’ll spend the rest of my life treating you right. Come back with me, please.”
Scarlett only looked at him indifferently. “There’s no need to beg me. I already told you. We ended our engagement. That means we’re nothing to each other now. There’s nothing left to say between us.”
“But I don’t want to lose you.” Harrison grabbed her arm again. “You don’t understand. I had a dream after.
left. It felt so real, like a memory from my past life.
“In that dream, we were married, but I treated you horribly. In the end, I died. And you were stabbed to death because of me.
“When I woke up, my chest hurt so badly. That’s when I finally understood that I love you. It always have. Please, don’t leave me again.”
Harrison had only mentioned the dream to explain how he had come to realize his true feelings.
But the moment Scarlett heard his words, her expression shifted. She stared at him for a long
time before finally speaking. “What if it wasn’t just a dream?”
Harrison froze. “What do you mean?”
She pulled her arm free from his grasp and replied calmly, “It seems there’s no point in hiding It from you anymore. Harrison, I’ve gone back in time.
I
“That dream of yours wasn’t just a dream. It was our past life. Everything, I suffered in your dream the pain and the despair was all real”
