Because I Was an and He Threw Away 173

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Chapter 173 The Unstable Man

Emily felt a wave of sadness and instinctively reached up to touch her cheek.

Before long, a faint scent of tobacco drifted from behind her.

She turned around almost immediately, but she was still too slow. Alexander’s hand had already rested on her shoulder.

When she looked back, he let out a low chuckle at her guarded reaction and said, “You’re like a little puppy.”

He knew she had just been crying, yet he didn’t ask a single question about it. Instead, he teased her.

He wanted to see her smile.

Emily lifted her face to look at Alexander and asked in confusion, “How do you always show up without a sound?”

Alexander reached into his pocket and took out a clean handkerchief. He carefully dabbed away the tears at the corner of her eye. “When you really care about someone,” he said, lowering his voice, “your attention follows them everywhere. Even when you’re not looking, you’re aware.”

Here he went again. Whenever he spoke sweet words, they qange in endless variations.

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Emily clearly didn’t believe a single word. She stood up, took a step back, and said, “It’s late. I need to go back.”

As soon as the words left her mouth, she turned to leave. But Alexander reacted quickly and grabbed her arm.

When she struggled, Alexander tightened his grip as well. With little effort, he pulled her into his arms.

His right arm locked around her waist, pressing her firmly against his chest.

At the same time, he used his left hand to guide Emily’s hand toward his abdomen.

Sliding her hand beneath the hem of his shirt, Alexander pressed her fingers against his abdominal muscles. He lowered his gaze, watching her flustered eyes dart away, and asked, “Did you feel it?”

Aside from the firm lines beneath his skin, Emily felt nothing.

She tried to pull her hand back, but he pressed it more tightly against his stomach.

In an instant, Emily broke out in a sweat. She struggled and said, “Let go of me.”

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Alexander lowered his head, his gaze stubbornly fixed on Emily. All he saw on her face was panic and unease.

He gazed at her intensely, and his tone suddenly turned despondent as he said, “So you really forgot, Emily. You liar.”

With that, he released her hand and her waist.

After Emily stepped out of his arms, she had no time to process what he meant. Her phone rang.

It was Ethan.

Worried that Alexander might do something reckless, Emily answered immediately.

Once the call connected, Ethan’s voice came through, “Where

are you?”

Before Emily could respond, Ethan added, “Grandpa asked me to come pick you up.”

Hearing this, Emily quickly glanced at Alexander. He was staring at her with open resentment, a look that sent a shiver down her spine.

For some reason, Emily felt that Alexander’s gaze was telling her that she had failed him.

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That has to be my imagination.

She and Alexander barely had any real interaction to begin with.

After a moment, Emily replied to Ethan, “I’ll be right out.”

After hanging up, she didn’t say a single word to Alexander. She turned around and ran toward the banquet hall.

However, the closer she got, the more she sensed that something was wrong with the noise inside.

When she finally drew near, she realized that the sounds were panicked shouts, mixed with the crashing of objects being smashed.

Emily immediately understood that something had likely gone wrong in the banquet hall.

But the only way out required passing through it. Emily decided to take a look through the back entrance to see what was happening inside.

Through the partially open door, she saw that many items in the hall had been destroyed. The troublemaker was holding a big cleaver and waving it wildly.

Most of the people in the banquet hall had already scattered. 4/6

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The man was looking around and shouting loudly, “Where is everyone? Come out and face me.”

When he turned his head, Emily recognized him–the man who had tried to touch Lydia earlier.

Emily’s heart sank. She suspected that this man might be coming after her.

Just then, a figure came down the stairs.

It was Nancy.

The out–of–control man spotted Nancy and charged straight toward her with the cleaver.

It seemed that Nancy had only just realized something was wrong. When she saw the man rushing at her with the weapon, she screamed in terror and ran back upstairs.