Lindsey gaped, and for a second, she was unable to process what just happened.


    Her shock was so great that she immediately ran to Domenic, forgetting to take her suitcase with her.


    “Are you crazy?! It’s a red diamond ne worth one billion, and you just threw it away? Are you kidding me right now?” she screeched at the top of her voice.


    Domenic Lowered his gaze and replied in a deep voice, “I’ve told you, I don’t take back things I’ve given someone.


    Since you don’t want it anymore, I threw it away.


    ”


    With that parting shot, he turned and walked back into a room without sparing Lindsey another nce.


    Lindsey was at a loss for words.


    She stared in the direction he threw the ne, then back at the apartment.


    After a second’s hesitation, she quickly went back to get her suitcase and then hurried downstairs.


    When Domenic saw Lindsey hurrying away without so much as a backward nce, his heart splintered into a million pieces.


    In that moment, it finally hit him that their rtionship was well and truly over.


    Domenic stood there in a dazed trance for a very long time.


    Finally, he shook off his mncholic thoughts and went to the bedroom.Exclusive ? material by N?(/v)elDrama.Org.


    There, he opened the bedside drawer and took out a sandalwood bracelet.


    Then he started rubbing it back and forth in his palm.


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    This bracelet was a birthday gift from Lindsey.


    Initially, it was an amulet when Lindsey gifted it to him.


    No matter what, he would never throw it away.


    After that fateful day, he had his people search around for a long time until they found all the beads scattered around the surrounding grass.


    Then he got the best craftsman to repair the beads and put them together again.


    Domenic was sad and upset, but as he stared at the bracelet, he was reminded that the ordinary life he lived with Lindsey not so long ago was not a figment of his imagination but reality.


    Unfortunately, all he had left was this string of rosewood bracelet.


    Domenic sat on the edge of the bed, clutching the rosewood bracelet in his palm protectively, and he couldn’t help butugh at himself.


    He just couldn’t understand why Lindsey had left him.


    She had been willing to stay with him when he had nothing, so why did she decide to walk away after she found out that he was loaded? Was it because she thought he deceived her?


    But he had exined everything to her and even promised not to hide anything from her again.


    Erroneously, he had believed that was enough to make here back to him.


    Why was she so unwilling to trust him again? All he was asking for was another chance.


    That was not too much to ask, was it?


    Was it possible that she was refusing him because of Sumner? Juanita had mentioned that Lindsey and Sumner were engaged.


    This could only mean that Lindsey never had any intentions of marrying Domenic in the first ce.


    She only used the excuse of her returning a favor to refuse him so that she could stay with Sumner.


    Did she feel pressurized by his true identity, or did she simply prefer Sumner to him? Did she feel more rxed and free around Sumner?


    Even after several minutes of analyzing everything, Domenic still couldn’t understand it.


    At this point, he wasn’t even sure that Lindsey ever Loved him.


    From the onset till this moment, he was always overlooked.


    Never the chosen one, always left behind in favor of another.


    It was a fate he had known for as long as he could remember.


    It took him a lot of courage to open his heart, but all he had to show for his effort was pain and misery.


    He was even more pathetic now than he had been in the beginning.


    Unfortunately, Domenic couldn’t afford to wallow in his misery.


    In order to safeguard Lindsey’s well-being, avoid being dragged back to the Walsh Group and forced to be under his grandfather’s thumb, but more importantly, to ensure that he would never have to marry a woman he didn’t love, he had to shake off his despair and make the Vitality Group the most sessfulpany in the cutthroat business world.


    On the other side, Lindsey was near the bush downstairs frantically searching for the red diamond ne Domenic had thrown away earlier.


    Lindsey gazed toward the bushes where Domenic had flung the ne, then she concealed her suitcase in a hidden spot and started her searching.