I Was His Substitute Bride Chapter 24
“I…”
He wiped his tears with his sleeve. The gesture was so childish it was endearing. “Why didn’t you say so sooner? You don’t like me hanging around Blair. Why didn’t you just say so?”
My expression hardened. I frowned. “How can you say I didn’t?”
He shook his head desperately. “You didn’t. You never got mad. You never blew up. You just looked at me like a professor lecturing a student. Told me you didn’t like Blair. Other couples fight. You never fought with me. You never got angry. How was I supposed to know how much you hated her? Victoria, I’m really dumb. Next time, just spell it out. I’ll change. I swear.”
I froze.
My feet felt rooted to the ground. I couldn’t move.
Back when I was with Cole, I always kept my emotions steady.
Never got angry. Never threw a tantrum. Faced every problem with calm discussion. Always offered a solution.
Sometimes we understood each other’s unspoken words with just a glance.
Many colleagues said Cole and I seemed to have our own force field. No one else could ever penetrate it. The two of us existed like precise machines, emitting a vibe that kept people at arm’s length.
I never saw anything wrong with that.
So when I got together with Spencer, I was the same.
Calmly negotiated with him. Almost wanted to prepare a PowerPoint presentation.
Every time, Spencer would grin and throw himself at me halfway through, messing up my hair, telling me not to be so serious.
I just assumed he didn’t want to listen. Labeled him as disrespectful.
Cole was right.
We were so alike.
The same… arrogance.
