Whenever he thought of the things she had done, he couldn't help feeling disgusted, couldn't help wanting to strangle her to death with his own hands.
"I understand."
For a long while, he only heard Elly Campbell respond to him with this calm statement before she went to the dressing room.
Adam Jones lifted his gaze, his deep eyes resting on her slender back. Her reaction just now not only failed to give him the pleasure of revenge but also made his heart even more irritable.
Elly Campbell came out of the dressing room in fresh clothes, her hair still dripping with water droplets. That face, without a touch of makeup, still looked so beautiful that it was hard to look away.
Even though he despised her, hated her through and through, he had to admit that this woman indeed had a face that could wreck nations. When he first saw her in his youth, he...
He closed his eyes bitterly, not allowing himself to think any further.
Elly Campbell hadn't expected Adam Jones to still be in the room. She paused in her steps, hesitated for a moment, then walked toward him, just in time to meet Adam Jones's suddenly open eyes.
Those dark eyes, like a whirlpool, she still hadn't understood him to this day. At this moment, she suddenly started to think, what was the meaning of her persistence and effort over the past three years?
"Adam..."
After opening and closing her mouth several times, in the end, the many words that reached her lips were swallowed back down again.
She only said slowly, "I'm sorry, I didn't know my one-sided feelings made you so unhappy."
When she spoke those words, she still felt a sharp sting in her heart.
That dull, aching feeling became particularly intense when she made up her mind to let go of Adam Jones.
When she looked up again, the reluctance that had been reignited several times over the past three years now seemed much fainter.
And that "I'm sorry" made Adam Jones's heart suddenly tremble.
His normally cold eyes fixed on her calm and resigned face, a mysterious panic flashing across his heart.
After saying that, Elly Campbell turned and walked away, her eyes that had always clung to him didn't glance at him again.
Adam Jones felt an increasing panic in his heart as she stepped out the door, his voice involuntarily blurting out, "Where are you going?!"
"To the hospital to see Grandma."
Elly Campbell didn't turn back, just answering Adam Jones with her back to him.
Adam Jones's heart was in a mess and filled with irritation at that moment. Why did this damned woman have to say that sentence just now? Did she think he would soften?
A single "sorry" was supposed to make him forgive the nauseating things she had done?
"You don't need to go. Grandma is still in a coma, it's not convenient for outsiders to disturb."
Outsiders...
Elly Campbell forced a smile, nodding her head, accepting that status.
"Alright."
She responded softly, then continued, "I'm quite busy these days. I will move out when I have time."
After holding on for three years, she hadn't expected to still fail to persist. All her insistence, all her concessions made in the belief that they could move Adam Jones, were just a joke.
This was the answer Adam Jones had always wanted, yet, paradoxically, when he heard her say this, he was not only unsatisfied but his inner panic and irritation intensified.
He cast a cold glance at Elly Campbell, not able to resist saying sarcastically, "You think by dragging it out for a few days, I will change my mind?"
The mocking tone made Elly Campbell frown, turning around to face his only mocking and cold eyes.
"Adam Jones, if three years can't make you change your mind, what use are these few days? You have so little confidence in yourself?"