Chapter 643

Sweat beaded on Simon’s forehead.

Eddy had always been a careless sort. After getting beaten up, he seemed to have become sharper.

“Mr. Eddy started up.

“Simon was still pondering how to answer Eddy’s question when a crying voice “Oh, Eddy, how could you have been beaten up this way?”

Seeing Layla throw herself into his arms, still crying, Eddy looked over at Simon, feeling troubled.

Simon took this opportunity to say, “Mr. Eddy, Since Ms. Layla is here, I’ll take my leave now. If you need anything, you can ring the bell.”

Before Eddy could say anything, Simon wisely ran off.

Now that Simon was gone, Layla was even more uninhibited in the way she held Eddy. “Eddy, who on earth hit you? Are we living in a lawless society now?”

“Indeed, it’s getting lawless here.” Eddy was annoyed as he pushed Layla away.

“Didn’t I already tell you that it’s better we stay friends in the future?”

Hearing this, Layla cried hard. “E–Eddy, h–how could you say that? What have I done wrong? Can you please tell me? I swear, I’ll change!”

Eddy wanted to plug his ears. How had he never noticed how awful Layla sounded when she cried before?

“You did nothing wrong. It’s just that I can’t keep disappointing Grandpa. Before he passed, he didn’t even manage to see me get together with Caroline.

“I don’t want this regret to persist. At least, I would like him to see us together from where he is in heaven.”

“It’s all because of …” Layla forcefully swallowed the rest of her words back into her stomach. She didn’t believe that Eddy was doing this all for Jude.

“Eddy, did Caroline say something to you?” She had intentionally lowered her voice, making herself seem more pitiful.

Eddy frowned, displeased.

He hadn’t found anything wrong with it when Layla had said such things before. But now “Caroline didn’t say anything. Stop making wild guesses. I’m only doing this because of Grandpa. I don’t care if you believe me or not.”

Layla gritted her teeth. She really didn’t believe that Caroline hadn’t done anything.

After all, she could see clearly just how distant Eddy had been with her during this time. It was the kind of distance that had pushed him to break up with her.

This time, Layla was truly panicked. The danger she felt, which she had never felt before, was suffocating her.

“Then what does the relationship between us mean?” She decided to try and persuade Eddy with her tears, which had always come easily.

Eddy avoided Layla’s gaze. “Layla, there are no feelings between us. Even if there was, it would be my guilt toward you.”

“Guilt?” Layla didn’t get it. “What guilt?”

“Have you forgotten?” Eddy looked at Layla with a strange gaze. “Back then, when we had been kidnapped, I had nearly died when that gas tank exploded.

“You risked everything and pushed me away.”

As Eddy spoke, his gaze fell on Layla’s arm. There should still be a scar there, though it must have faded a lot through the years.

“The scar on your arm was from that incident. Have you forgotten?”

This was a bolt out of the blue for Layla.

She had never dreamed that Eddy was so nice to her because …

Although that kidnapping had happened when she had just been five or six years old, she could remember it very clearly. She had had to get therapy before she had gotten over the incident.

As for the person who had pushed Eddy aside, that was Caroline.

Not her.