every attempt she made to approach him was blocked by his bodyguards without exception
Chapter 23
Things only got worse for Josiah when Sinclair Group launched a full–scale offensive against his company. As a newcomer in the industry, he was in no position to withstand the pressure of an old, established powerhouse.
Turled by the rage of Brittany’s betrayal, Josiah made several impulsive and disastrous decisions, which pushed his already struggling company even closer to collapse. There was now no room left for reromery.
When it became clear that bankruptcy was inevitable and ineversible, Josiah’s already fragile body–having recently been rushed to the emergency room paveout. He coughed up blood in his office and was sent to the ER again
finally
By the time he was discharged, his company had officially declared bankruptcy. Liquidation had begun. His bank accounts, properties, and cars were all frozen
With nowhere else to go, Josiah’s thoughts used back to Priscilla. She had treated him so well, yet he never appreciated her.
All it took was one look from Brittany, and he had chased after her like a dog. That weakness led to everything falling apart.
Unable to accept that his downfall was entirely of his own making–chasing one woman while clinging to another–Josiah pushed the blame onto Brittany. He went looking for her, desperate to take it out on someone.
Backed into a corner, Brittany, too, tumed to the men she muce kept on a string. But now, she could only reach a few clueless “small fish“, and the things she managed to get from them were nowhere near enough to restore her to her previous lifestyle.
When she saw Josiah at her door, she thought he wanted to make up and start over. But it burned out that he was there to blame her for his bankruptcy, What followed was nothing short of a public fight between two rabid dogs snapping at each other.
“You’re a failure, and now you’re blaming me? Did 1 ask you to chase after me like a lapdog?”
“And why did 1 do that? You kept leading me on–dropping hints and sending mixed signals. Priscilla and I wouldn’t have broken up if it weren’t for you.” “I only lifted my pinky finger, and you came running. How is that my fault? When Priscilla was in the hospital after the car crash, you left her to play with me.
“Did I tie you down? You left her alone on the highway during a storm while she was on her period, was that my idea?”
Listening to Brittany talk about how he had neglected Priscilla from an outsides’s perspective, Joslah finally realized just how cruel he had truly been. He was the one who wronged Priscilla and hurt her. Everything that happened was his fault, no one else’s
“Brittany, do you seriously feel no guilt or regret for everything that’s happened? Josiah asked. He stared at her as she kept running her mouth It was a question that felt almost laughable to him the moment it left his lips.
“Guilt? Regret? Why should I feel either?
“Josiah, we’ve been friends since we were young. Don’t pretend that you don’t know exactly what idad of person I am.
“You’re the one who believed everything I said. Have you truly never noticed how many lies I told? The truth is, all I ever did was
as say what you were too afraid to
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You used me as a mouthpiece, then acted like it was all for me. But from the very beginning, you were only ever thinking about yourself,” Josiah was left speechless. He couldn’t say anything in return, so he turned and walked away.
something inside him finally collapsed. But even so, he still wanted to see Priscilla de more time just to say sorry.
When he went looking for her, Maddox’s bodyguards made sure that he never even got close. Josiah was entirely shut out of her world. The boomerang be had once thrown had finally come backand struck him square in the face.
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At last, during a moment of garelessness on the guards‘ part, he found an opening and slipped into the parking garage. When Priscilla appeared, he stepped in of her
Priscilla stared at the man blocking her path. It took her a long while to recognize Joslali. He was no longer the man he used to be. He appeared all won down and broken
But she felt notining even at the sight of his haggard, fallen figure. Not a flicker of emotion stined in her heart. She simply frowned and looked at him in silence. “What are you doing here?”
Seeing that Priscilla truly showed no action toward him at all, Josialı felt a sharp pain pierce though his chest. A wave of sorrow washed over him. His eyes turned bloodshot, and his voice caught in his throat.
“Priscilla, I came to apologize.
“When we were together, it was my neglect that made you suffer so much. Every time I lied about going on business trips, Helt guilty. “That’s why I had my astutan send you all those gifts. I thought they could make up for bow little attention i was giving you.
was so fierce and full. It was I was the
“When I was pursuing brittany, I never once tuned back to look at you. But the love in your eyes when you looked at me was so qne who let you down
“If there’s any chance at all, please let me make it up to you. Come back to me. I’ll give you everything i have, “I’ll build everything from the ground up and love only you.”
