Chapter 185
\nBillionaire Lost to His Surrogate In A Love Game novel Chapter 185<\/p>\n
Madeleine picked up, and out came her sleep-heavy, impatient voice. \u201cYou better have something important to call me about during my beauty sleep, or see if I will put a bullet in your head.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hearing her voice, Tassach oddly felt his frustration dissipate somewhat.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Ophelia suffer a lot?\u201d he asked, voice slightly tipsy.<\/p>\n
On the other end of the line, Madeleine groaned as she demanded, \u201cWhat the hell is wrong with you, calling me dead in the night to ask me these boring questions? Don\u2019t you have anything else going on right now? Don\u2019t you sleep? If there\u2019s nothing else you want to talk about, I\u2019m hanging up.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, please! I\u2019m feeling upset right now. Will you talk to me?\u201d<\/p>\n
Noticing something different with him, Madeleine asked hesitantly, \u201cAre you drunk?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Madeleine sighed. \u201cTassach, I know I\u2019m always mean to you, but still, I\u2019ll admit that you\u2019re a talented guy with dashing good looks. Why are you still clinging onto Ophelia when you can have any woman in the world you want? She\u2019s married now and expecting a baby. Drinking your sorrows away like this won\u2019t help you score any sympathy points with her; instead, it\u2019s only going to upset her. So why are you doing this?\u201d<\/p>\n
Tassach spoke as a gentle breeze blew past him. \u201cI won\u2019t try to destroy her marriage if she\u2019s leading a happy life.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhich she is indeed. With her husband caring for her, and a baby due in a couple of months, why shouldn\u2019t she be?\u201d said Madeleine earnestly, \u201cand this is an image you should\u2019ve expected to witness when you deserted her as she tried to pay off her debts four years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTassach,\u201d continued Madeleine after some pause, \u201clisten to me. Stop drinking, go home, and take a shower before getting a good night of sleep. Tomorrow is another day, and tomorrow, what you should do is to work hard, get yourself a beautiful and hardworking girlfriend, and start family with her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tassach popped open another beer and chugged it all the way. Downing the entire bottle, he asked drunkenly, \u201cDo you think there\u2019s still a spot for me in her heart?\u201d<\/p>\n
Madeleine rolled her eyes. Why would she talk to this drunk son of a bitch when she could be having her beauty sleep right now?<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re wasted. Go home and sleep it off; you\u2019ll be fine when you wake up.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Tassach started to sing instead.<\/p>\n
Having never seen him like this before, Madeleine couldn\u2019t help but be worried. \u201cAre you okay?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d replied Tassach straightforwardly, emboldened by alcohol, \u201cI haven\u2019t been okay for the past few years. I\u2019m always thinking about Ophelia \u2013 how\u2019s she doing? How\u2019d she pay off her debts? Yes, I did leave her, but I was out and about trying to help alleviate her debts. When I finally came back, she was gone. And do you know how happy I was when she got in touch with me? But before I could come to from the joy of our reunion, I was told that she was married. That was such a huge, huge blow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Madeleine was getting tired of him. It wasn\u2019t a good look for a man to obsess over a lost relationship and wouldn\u2019t move on.<\/p>\n
Over at his end, Tassach droned on. \u201cI love you, Ophelia, I really do. I\u2019ve been in love with you for so many years, so why would you go off and marry some other guy?\u201d<\/p>\n
Tassach reached up and yanked her wrist with force, which made Madeleine sit tumbling down by his side.<\/p>\n
\u201cHey, what do you think you\u2019re doing?\u201d asked Madeleine mildly angrily.<\/p>\n
Tassach let out a faint laugh. \u201cNothing. Just wanted to ask you to sit down and talk to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
He cracked open a beer and handed it to her. \u201cThank you, Madeleine. You\u2019re always mean to me, but you do care, right? Or you wouldn\u2019t have come all the way here in the middle of the night.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to make sure you didn\u2019t die here and cause the police any trouble, is all,\u201d said Madeleine stubbornly.<\/p>\n
Tassach continued to smile. \u201cIt\u2019s nice that Ophelia\u2019s got a good friend in you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Madeleine took a sip of the beer next to him. In the light breeze, she said, \u201cOf course! But again, Ophelia is worth all the love she\u2019s been given.\u201d<\/p>\n
Perhaps it was due to the cozy riverside surroundings, but anyway, Madeleine decided to drop her previous prejudice and drink with him.<\/p>\n
Tassach spoke with fewer inhibitions as he got drunker. \u201cOphelia\u2019s life was quite miserable at the time, wasn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1059","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirvanaharapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirvanaharapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirvanaharapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nirvanaharapan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}