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Chapter 19
The waiter who just walked to their table noticed the tension that he needed to clear his throat just to break whatever they were talking about while their
faces were leveled.
Clara took her composure right away as she sat straight and fixed herself gradually while Callum leaned against his seat as well. His eyes were intensely looking at Clara, and he knew that once the waiter would leave, he’d answer her right away about her last statement.
“Enjoy your meal, ma’am, sir,” the waiter said politely after placing all of their food on the table as he glanced at them one by one.
Ciara nodded and smiled a little to Accommodate the waiter’s service, Callum didn’t budge at all, as he still looked angry, and the controlled wrath on his
face was vividly expressed.
The two courses of food they ordered looked so delicious that Ciara was distracted for a bit as she started taking her spoon and trying the food she
ordered to check the taste.
Callum, whose brows were still furrowed and wanting to answer her last rant, hesitated to fire his words when he saw how Ciara was now more invested in the food instead of discussing it continuously.
So he sighed frustratingly, clicked his neck, and checked his food too while throwing a glare at Ciara, who’s now unfazed by him.
Clara nodded at the taste, took her phone out, and took a picture of if so she could send it to her daughter as she typed a text on her phone.
Ciam:
Look, sweetheart. Their food tastes good. Do you want to taste it, too? I’ll take it out for you.
Callum noticed the sudden softness in Ciara’s expression that he hadn’t seen for a long time. She looked so peaceful and content that he even caught her small smile while her eyes were lighting up as if she were talking to the most precious people existing in her life at the moment.
“You should take a photo of who you are with to let your man know that you are seeing someone else,” Callum inserted while his eyes were on his food.
“Don’t flatter yourself, Callum. I don’t consider this a secret that could ruin a reputation. Go and publicize it yourself,” she answered nonchalantly while she was busy on her phone.
Ciara has been so cold and distant since day one. That was Callum’s impression of her, and she just got worse. He felt like he lost the other side of Ciara that she wasn’t willing to show to Callum anymore, such as her own life.
She was now completely a stranger to him, and it didn’t even matter to her whether he was still existing or not. He felt like air she could feel, but it was too hard to even notice.
Ciara continued eating. Callum continued as well, but he didn’t talk for a while, saving it for later as he knew he wouldn’t go home unless he talked more
about it to Ciara.
Their dinner might have looked so peaceful as they weren’t talking to each other, nor was Ciara looking at Callum, but the tension and the inner grudge against each other were just too obvious from the both of them as if they were like tamed volcanoes that would explode right then if triggered.
Callum would always be amazed at how unfazed Ciara is as woman. She seems like a lioness who won’t be snapped by anyone, not even by him. A he knows that if he messes with her, she’s going to be the deadliest opponent because she is an alpha hersell–every man’s downfall.
And
After eating, Ciara even got the nerve to order a champagne drink for herself, but in Callum’s mind, something was flashing to him years ago that he knew existed because they had done it again yesterday.
“Do you have a driver?” He asked, a bit concerned.
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Clara arched her brow. “Even if I could go to hell while driving, is that your problem?”
Goddammit this woman….
Callum can’t really hide the piss in his face every time she answers him blatantly. He would be torn between being amazed by her and being pissed at the same time because she knows how to get on his nerves.
“Then I have no choice but to drive you home if you drink too much,” Callum offered.
Ciara laughed. “Oh wow, how gentlemanly, Mr. Haynes, Is that another strategy to pry on your competitors?” She asked while smirking as she sipped on her drink, and her eyes were on him.
“If you’d get into an accident after this, and let’s say you die right there and then, you think I could still sleep knowing I could have done something to. stop it?”
Ciara smirked even more, and Callum could smell the burning comeback that would roast his whole existence.
“Really? It seems like you were sleeping peacefully for five years after not doing something you could have stopped a long time ago. This isn’t your first time, Callum. Sleep well”
Oh, damn it, really. This woman is Satan’s reincarnation.
“Don’t make me feel guilty for signing the divorce papers you desperately wanted, Ciara.”
Ciara’s eyes remained like a hook on him as she sipped on her champagne drink, her eyes screaming all the murderous language they could say through
her eyes.
“Then why are you suddenly popping into my life like you’ve regretted signing it and you want me back, Callum?” She asked without beating around the bush. “Because I am in your enemy’s den? Jealous? Or…hmm…you wanted to use our past against me so you could have the upper hand in your so- called competition with the Sullivans?”
Callum seems to have underestimated Clara. Back in the days when he knew her, she was fierce yet tamed. She doesn’t bite. But now he could really tell how dangerous she was as a woman. She knows how to fire her words and stand her ground without being snapped by men around her.
Callum has really no answer for it, or maybe yes, but his mouth has suddenly failed to spout all of the words hidden at the back of his mind. He wasn’t
ready for it. Or he knew that Ciara didn’t want to hear it anymore.
“I won’t work with you anymore. Let’s be clear with that, I don’t want to see you in one place nor breathe the same air with you the reason why loven
“You left to hide your crime scene, Ciara,” Callum fired darkly.
“Because you’ve murdered me. I cleared your own mess by not leaving blood in the house you’ve abandoned, Callum,” she hissed,
Right at that moment, Callum almost wanted to
o surrender, as he could accept defeat.
“I may be guilty of leaving, but you were the main suspect, Callum. Don’t make it appear like I was the mastermind of the crime you started on your own. I just finished what you couldn’t,” she continued.
The metaphors she used cut so deep that Callum unconsciously reached for the bottle of champagne, poured himself one and gulped it down in one
shot.
Clara was pure libido. She could feel the wrath burning on the sides of her eyes, which she controlled not to burst. She hasn’t shouted the pain from the past, and whispering it now to the killer of her own fairytale felt so satisfying.
Unable to hold her emotions, she took her purse and got some bills, which she put roughly on the table while looking at Callum. She then took her purse
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Callum’s jaw clenched. Ciara was unstoppable as she walked to the parking lot hastily with her serious and darkening expression, and she hated why she felt the pain that she thought she had already buried for so long.
“Ciaral” Callum’s voice boomed behind her.
Clara’s walk doubled in speed as she unlocked the car alarm of her sports car. But before she could open the door and slip herself in, Callum had already pulled her arm.
To Ciara’s anger, as soon as she faced him, she used her left hand and slapped his face. Callum glanced at the side as he could feel the burning pain trickling down on his cheek while he slowly looked at the front.
“I don’t know what you were up to, but I won’t let you ruin me
ne the second time, Callum,” she spat.
Callum’s jaw clenched. “Ruin? When it was you who hurt me? What do you mean ruin when it was your choice to leave, Ciara?”
“Because you’ve given me enough reason to file for divorce! Can’t you see it? You’ve chosen another woman, Callum! That day, I begged for you because I needed you the most. You chose to abandon me!”
“I was doing my best for the both of us, Clara, and yet, you were selfishly acting up! You weren’t like that! You never care
“I never care! Well, then, I should have made a lot of excuses when you offered that goddamn marriage to me just to decline it. How stupid of me to assume that we could build a real family with that pretentious act I signed!”
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