Chapter 392 Aren’t I a B*tch?
Whitney looked down, feeling a lump in her throat before she went on and said, “I betrayed him, set him up, and ruined his reputation completely, Miss Nicole. The Lane Family later fell apart because I had to sacrifice it for the sake of my family.” Whitney clenched her teeth, describing herself as a sinful wrongdoer.
However, Nicole knew Whitney was not the kind of person she made herself sound like, having known her for quite a while. “Whitney, I know that’s not who you are.”
Surprised to hear how Nicole trusted her, Whitney was overwhelmed by her emotions as tears started to gush down from her eyes once again. Nevertheless, she only cried for a short while before she quickly pulled herself together. Upon a brief contemplation, she replied, “It was my father, Miss Nicole. He threatened me with my mother’s life. She was sick and bedridden at that time, and I was left with no choice.”
Whitney answered with a heavy heart but was still confused about how her father could bring himself to threaten her with her mother’s life, considering the fact that both of them were soulmates. While it had been five years since Whitney’s mother was bedridden, her father had already had an affair with another woman two months after she went out of action.
Besides that, when Whitney was still dating Douglas, her father wouldn’t stop threatening her to make her do his bidding, or he would undermine her mother’s life support. Because of that, she was forced to sacrifice her relationship with Douglas to save her mother despite her love for him.
In the meantime, Nicole was stunned after hearing about Whitney’s checkered past. Oh gosh! I didn’t know she’s been carrying so much weight on her shoulders. It looks like her outgoing attitude had been fooling me into thinking she was an optimistic person all along. “It wasn’t your fault, Whitney,” Nicole comforted the sad lady, thinking she would have done the same thing as well if she had been in Whitney’s position.
“B-But, it was me who ruined his life, Miss Nicole! I destroyed the future he could have had. He used to be so outgoing and kind. It was all my fault!” The emotional floodgates within Whitney opened once again, not long after she calmed herself down.
Meanwhile, Nicole sympathetically looked at Whitney and rubbed her head with her hand. “Whitney, Douglas is living a good life now, so you should probably put it behind you and move on.”
At the thought of the conversation between Nicole and Emily back in the restaurant, Whitney nodded understandably but could barely hide her bitter smile. Yeah, she is right. Douglas now has a good life with a happy family. He has a good wife and a lovely child. With a happy life like that, what more could he ask for? “I heard you, Miss Nicole. I just need more time to get over it, probably because my guilt is still playing tricks with me in my head. Maybe… I still have feelings for him… Oh gosh! I’m such a b*tch, aren’t I?” Whitney bitterly asked Nicole, having little respect for herself due to her love for Douglas even though she was the one who gave up on their relationship.
“You need to pull yourself together right now because you’re going to have to move on one way or another. Furthermore, I have faith that you’ll meet someone better in the future.” Nicole consoled Whitney but refused to give her false hope by telling her that she could still work things out with Douglas. After all, Douglas and Emily seemed to be living a happy life at the moment.
On the other hand, Whitney felt so much more relieved upon revealing the secret that she had been buried inside of her for so long. At the same time, she realized she should move on with her life happily since Douglas had already found happiness for himself. She then shed a drop of tear from her eyes and blinked, her eyelashes shaking for a second before she pulled herself together and hid the sad look on her face. “You’re right, Miss Nicole. I should move on with my life now. Douglas is now leading a happy life, which is all the more reason I should leave him and his family alone.”
Noticing the gloomy look on Whitney’s face, Nicole let out a sigh and comforted, “I can assure you that Douglas is living the best time of his life. Not only is he one of the shareholders of Aimee International, but he is also the president of F&R Enterprise.”
The president of F&R Enterprise? Whitney was stunned to hear Nicole’s words. Although F&R Enterprise was not known to be a huge corporation across the globe, it somehow managed to make a name for itself with its advanced technology.
