Capture Your Heart novel Chapter 203

Tears running out of her eyes, Milan feels confused when she watches her brother leaves in despair. Is she wrong?”

Sitting in the booth of the night club, Troy tries to drown his sorrow in the wine. Two beautiful strippers sit on both sides of him, sexually pleasing him, but he ignores them as he’s disappointed that he’s set up by his sister and brother-in-law. Fucking family…

What makes him more disappointed is that his sister would rather choose her fucking husband than choose him.

Even worse, he’s put on edge every time he thinks of that Karin has spent a night with another man in the hotel, and they might have slept together.

The beautiful strippers lean against his chest and he growls, “Get the fucking off!”

But they still press themselves against his body, and he furiously grabs a wine bottle and smashes it in the wall, which finally scares the strippers away…

Drunk as he is, he feels rational enough to regret that he has scared the strippers away. If he sleeps with them together, he and Karin will be even. And he can forgive her…

Karin sits alone in the swing chair in the evening. She has got used to spending the whole night with the moon.

She has been waiting for Troy for almost half a month.

“Hello?” Here comes a stranger’s voice.

She jumps off the swing chair and goes to open the door. “Hello.”

“Hello. I’m a designated driver. This gentleman gets drunk and tells me to drive him here.”

Karin’s heart stutters and finds Troy sleeping in the car. Her tears well up as she watches his face.

“Thanks. Please help me get him in the house.”

Then they take Troy to the bedroom.

Yuma also comes to see him and asks, “Does he need some soup to sober up?”

“Give him some honey water.”

“Okay.”

Karin rinses a towel to wash his face and says, “I’ve been waiting for you for days, but now you show up as a drunkard. Perhaps you’ll regret when you wake up tomorrow morning.”

“Here comes the honey water.”

Karin points to the table. “Just place it on the table. He can’t drink it until he wakes up.”

“Then I’ll leave you here. Call me if you need anything.”

“Okay.”

In the dimmed light, Karin lies beside Troy and murmurs her love for him.

Much as she says, sleeping Troy can hear nothing. Then she holds his palm in her hand and writes down three words: “I—LOVE—YOU”.

Here comes the next morning, and she dresses herself up to wait for Troy’s waking up. She didn’t fall asleep last night as she was afraid that she’d have a nightmare.

Troy finally opens his eyes and rubs his forehead. He’s a bit dumbfounded when his eyes meet Karin’s, but soon enough, his face darkens again.

Getting out of the covers, he opens his wardrobe and picks up a suit to wear. Then he goes into the bathroom to get wash his face before leaving for work. He stays silent in the whole process. When he’s about to step out of the house, Karin can’t help herself but to ask, “Does it hurt so much?”

Troy stumbles a bit without any words.

Karin walks up to him and says calmly, “I don’t want to see you get your sorrow drowned in the wine every day. Just let it go, and we can be back to the square one where we don’t remember each other anymore.”

Troy levels her with a hard look and snorts, “Back to the square one? Isn’t it so easy for you?”

“Then tell me what to do? Tell me what I can do for you so that you don’t have to indulge yourself in endless sorrow.”

“If I abandon you, will you live a better life than now?”

“No, but that’s all right as long as you live a happier life.”

Troy laughs at her wryly and turns around, looking into her eyes. “Don’t you ever think I’ll be happier if I give up on you?”

“Then don’t do it, and find out the truth. Learn to trust me.”

“How naïve you are! I’ve found out the truth.”

“What?”

Karin grabs him by the arm with shock. “Have you? Who did it? The one that set me up.”

“But what I want to know is what happened between you and William at that night?”

Facing his scorching gaze, she tries to prove that she’s innocent, but when she thinks about William’s silence on the sea shores, she backs off a bit.

“What? You have no ideas? Or you don’t dare to tell me the truth?”

“No. I don’t think we can do anything as we both passed out.”

Afraid to meet his eyes, Karin gives him a fallacious explanation. She’s always a bad liar.

Yuma’s right. Close as a couple can be, they can’t share all their secrets together.

She can’t trust William, and she can’t make it complicated, either.

“Really? Why did he leave Zurich?”

“Did he leave here?” Karin is shocked.

“You don’t know?”

“Of course not.”

“I don’t trust him. But I’m sure he wouldn’t have run away if he hadn’t done anything wrong.”

Karin’s heart is clenched as she slowly let go of Troy’s arm. “So, what really upsets you is that he has touched my body?”

“Yes.”

“Okay, I’ve got it. I admit it that I can’t prove my innocence now. So it’s up to you whether to give up on me or not.”

Karin turns around as she presses her lips together to smother her weep. She’s almost killed by the sadness and disappointment. No matter what kind of choice he makes, she has done her best save their love.

Silence spills between them before she hears his footsteps.

Troy stands facing her and wipes away her tears with his finger as what he used to do, while the tenderness can’t be found in his eyes as usual.

“We’ll have the wedding as planned.”

Then he kisses her on the forehead, representing his forgiveness. For some reason, his kiss feels cold.