Chapter 450 Billionaire's Lies

• As Clarisse retraced the well-known route to her apartment, her mind reeled like a tempest within. The chill of the evening air left her untouched, her gaze unfocused as she looked straight ahead. Her heart was trapped in ice, but it was an ice that seared, making her restless and vulnerable.
• Saben now belongs to someone else.
• The words themselves seemed to ring in her head like a harsh mantra, every repetition a bitter reminder of all that she had worked so desperately to deny. She had never really accepted in her own mind how much she had desired Saben, how much she had wished for a future with him, even though she had known at the bottom of her heart that the relationship wasn't as powerful as she had wanted it to have been. Clarisse had attempted to persuade herself that they were meant for each other, that perhaps, with time, she would feel that spark. But it never materialized.