chapter2139

Nicholas only needed one word from Jocelyn. Her current marital status didn't matter to him.

Jocelyn didn't know how to feel at that moment.

The man she loved had now returned her feelings, so her love wasn't unrequited.

But alas, she was married. The marriage was arranged by her parents, and she had agreed to it, not to mention that Yannick was good to her. She couldn't betray him.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Rainsworth, you may have misunderstood my feelings for you. My kindness toward you was out of professional duty as your subordinate, not the love you speak of." Jocelyn paused, then continued, "Furthermore, I am already married. My husband treats me very well, and we are very much in love. I will not divorce him."

That sentence, "we're very much in love," sounded exceptionally sharp and piercing to Nicholas' ears.

His throat tightened. "Jocelyn, are you deliberately trying to deceive me because you're angry at me?"

"I am speaking the truth, Mr. Rainsworth. Yannick and I are each other's first spouses, whereas you've gotten a divorce. Besides, we've spent so many years together, but I truly don't harbor those kinds of feelings for you," Jocelyn enunciated.

To be honest, she couldn't understand Nicholas.

He was the same with Cecilia. He could have clarified everything with her before he fell ill and left the country, but he didn't.

When he returned upon recovery and saw that Cecilia was married to Nathaniel, he wanted to snatch her back.

It truly seemed to confirm the saying that the best things were the ones one couldn't have, or the ones that belonged to others.

"I don't believe you." Nicholas wasn't a fool. He could feel that Jocelyn genuinely liked him.

Jocelyn didn't want to talk to him anymore, afraid that she would regret it if she did.

"Mr. Rainsworth, if there's nothing else, I'm hanging up. Please don't call me again. I'm worried my husband might misunderstand," she said.

Without waiting for Nicholas' reply, she hung up the phone.

The moment the call ended, she felt inexplicably relieved.

Meanwhile, in the hospital, Nicholas' headache worsened significantly. He coughed violently while his heart throbbed terribly, but he didn't know if it was due to physical or emotional pain.

Pulling out the needle for the IV drip, Nicholas tried to get out of bed.

When a nurse noticed his actions, she said, "You haven't recovered yet, so you might faint if you get up now."

"It's fine. I have something important to do. I need to be discharged," Nicholas replied.

The nurse couldn't stop him.

Using the wall for support, Nicholas coughed as he walked out of the hospital step by step.

He needed to see Jocelyn and clarify everything with her.

He had already lost Cecilia, and he didn't want to lose Jocelyn.

Over the past few days, he deeply realized just how important Jocelyn was to him.

After completing all the discharge procedures, Nicholas hailed a taxi and asked the driver to take him to Jocelyn's office.

He had looked up her workplace previously, so he didn't need to search now.

When he arrived downstairs, he picked up his phone and called

again Jocelyn, I'm waiting

Sat your office building

right now. Let's meet."

Jocelyn, who was working, was shocked to hear this.

She clenched her fist and steeled her heart to say, "I'm sorry, Mr. Rainsworth. I'm still working, sol can't see you You uld just go

back." '

Nicholas didn't give up.

In between coughs, he replied, "It's okay. I'll wait until you get off work. We can

talk then."

Jocelyn was in a dilemma.

However, in the end, she dropped one last sentence and hung up on him again.

"I'm sorry, but we have nothing left to talk about."