Chapter 490
Matthias released Heather from his embrace while trying to calm himself down. His behavior on this
day was too abnormal; how could he hot-headedly come to Heather while his life was still in a mess?
Still, he showed no signs of forgiveness after becoming much calmer. “Now that you’ve ruined my
relationship, you have to pay the same price.”
Matthias couldn’t stay calm whenever it occurred to him that Heather would be together with another
man, for he would never allow her to be happy with someone else. He was fixated on Heather the
same way he was fixated on Myra. No matter what, Heather had to be bound to him; even if their
relationship was an unhappy one, they would stay unhappy together.
“That’s boring,” Heather uttered indifferently. The more Matthias spoke in an imperative tone, the more
she wanted to oppose him. No one could boss Heather around, and she would not show signs of
weakness even in the face of Matthias’s domineering behavior. Now that the guilt she felt toward
Matthias had vanished without a trace, the only thing left was her fight against him.
According to Robert, Matthias would never become an ally of the Langston Family. Even though it
wasn’t necessary to make an enemy, Heather would never give way again and again if Matthias
provoked her repeatedly. “Your relationship isn’t ruined at the hands of me, but at the hands of yourself.
Didn’t you come to Bradfort City for Myra?” She was confrontational. Since Matthias wanted to keep on
deceiving himself and others, she wanted him to wake up to reality.
“Yes, that’s right,” Matthias answered without the slightest hesitation.
Meanwhile, Heather sneered at the note of certainty in Matthias’s voice. The night breeze brought a
chill to the air in this barely inhabited neighborhood, and she wasn’t afraid of being seen under the dim
streetlight. Even so, she didn’t want to continue being locked in a stalemate here with Matthias
anymore. “If you really came for her, you should’ve come a long time ago. So many years have passed,
yet you put it off until Myra gave her heart to someone else and is about to marry her Mr. Right,” she
said sarcastically. She wanted to go back into her house right now, but she knew from the way Matthias
looked unwilling to give up that she had to stand in the night wind for a while longer. When she saw that
he had been swayed by her words, she followed up her success by saying, “Stop fooling yourself and
others. You came to Bradfort City for the sake of your interests, and Myra is nothing but a perk.” She
analyzed Matthias’s thinking in a leisurely manner. Since he was unwilling to confront his innermost
thoughts, she would let him have a good look at his profit-seeking self.
“I have always wanted to come to Bradfort City, but I couldn’t find a chance to come here because of
the Locke Family’s strict family rules.” Matthias continued to defend himself, but he looked a lot more
clear-headed and no longer sounded as aggressive and belligerent as before.
Heather didn’t allow Matthias to find any excuses, though. “That’s an excuse. No matter how hard it is,
one would go to their beloved person as soon as possible.” Matthias kept saying how much he loved
Heather, but that wasn’t the way he conducted himself at all. Heather wasn’t a foolish girl in love, and
she was aware of many things deep down.
“I couldn’t come out; I was constantly under surveillance by the Locke Family in Tasnia City, and they
were watching my every move,” said Matthias, continuing to talk about his difficulties. Now that he was
completely drawn into this subject by Heather, he focused on whether his feelings for Myra were just as
he said.
“Would the Lockes have killed or locked you up over the fact that you stealthily ran away to Bradfort
City?” Heather stared hard at Matthias and saw the evasiveness in his eyes. Men always liked to make
excuses for themselves. They loved themselves the most, but they kept claiming and pretending that
they were deeply in love.
“I was in a really tight spot while living with the Locke Family. I couldn’t make any mistakes.” Matthias
glowered at Heather, for he couldn’t understand why the conversation had changed into an
interrogation against him instead.
“In the end, you’re still after the position of the Locke Group’s president.” Heather smirked
contemptuously. Matthias looked absolutely pathetic, for he even wanted to deceive himself. Love was
nothing in his eyes, and his love for Myra was only an obsession caused by a missed opportunity back
then. Did Matthias understand what love was? To some extent, he was even more cold-blooded than
Heather. His inner pursuit of profit was endless, so how could such a person, who was blinded by
greed, have the right to talk about love?
Matthias blew up like a cat that had its tail stepped on. “I did nothing wrong. The position is mine in the
first place!”
“On one hand, you want to please the Locke Family and successfully become the Locke Group’s
president. On the other hand, you want to have a pure relationship. What a nice dream you have.”
Heather stared icily at Matthias. She could no longer tell whether someone like him was detestable or
pathetic.
“I want to live better and have more power. What’s wrong with that? A man can only give his woman
the best of everything by standing on the apex!” It never occurred to Matthias that he was wrong. He
did all of these for Myra’s sake; he was waiting for the day when he could meet her again and give her
everything she wanted.
“In other words, do you mean that those men who fail to reach the apex don’t deserve love? Your idea
is so ridiculously childish. Love cannot be measured with power or money; it stems from the rawest
flutter of the heart,” argued Heather plausibly, but she could only talk the talk. In reality, she wasn’t any
better than Matthias, which was why they were the same kind of people. Being incapable of love, they
predicted the future of their relationships and weighed the pros and cons like how they made
predictions about the stock market. Even if there was true love, they wouldn’t be blessed with it, for
they were the ones who abandoned love first. “Why can’t you just admit that you don’t love Myra as