It was only because he didn't like long-distance relationships. He was ecstatic when he learned that I had given up the opportunity to study abroad.
That night he cried and proposed to me. He made a promise for life with me forever and ever.
I always thought that I was right to give up my dream of love. But now it seems that I was really wrong.
When I looked at him, our eyes met. But I couldn't see a trace of love for me in his eyes. The question that almost came out of my mouth was swallowed by me.
Maximilian frowned when I looked at him. He then snatched the flowers in the hands of his mother. Maximilian forcefully stuffed them into my hands.
“Alright, no need for you to apologize, Pauline. Take the flowers and go quickly.”
He thought that I was still that little girl who could smile and forgive him with a little coaxing. He also didn't believe that I would give up on him just after giving up the opportunity to study abroad for him. I immediately returned the flower to him.
“This is what your mother gave to Jocelyn, Maximilian. It's not appropriate for me to accept it. I won't apologize and I won't marry you.”
An inexplicable uneasiness welled up in Maximilian's heart. It seemed that something important was passing away.
Maximilian asked in his heart, ‘Didn't Pauline Moonstone give up so much just to marry me? What did it mean to keep saying she wouldn't marry now? It couldn't be that she was really angry, could it?’
I could see anxiety flashing in his eyes. His hand subconsciously wanted to hold me.
“Pauline, I just …”
Maximilian's mother hurriedly coughed a few times. It made Maximilian immediately change his words. “I am more generous, Pauline. As long as you behave yourself, I will definitely marry you!”
But I smiled indifferently. “Oh, you should accompany your girlfriend quickly.”
Getting such a careless attitude from me, Maximilian's heart once again thumped. He always felt that I was very different after Rosie's death. But he couldn't say where it was different.
Maximilian's mother looked at his son. She then pulled him away.
“My son, don't look at her. Jocelyn is injured just when she needs you! It's just playing hard to get. I'm a woman and I know that you are too innocent to have had too few relationships!”
Listening to the way she purposely said it to me in a loud voice, my heart didn't hurt as much as I thought it would. The pain in my belly was crushing.