Chapter 1096 The Real Executive from Paternoster Square (IV)

• “Sorry…” Chadwick Fullner watched Kate Penrose sob her heart out. He reached out, then knew he couldn’t touch her, and slowly let his hand fall. It took him forever to say, “I know this is wrong, but honestly, I’m not happy either.”
• That really was the deepest thing he’d felt all night. He knew Kate should be happy, yet he couldn’t explain why watching her beam and say those things made a heavy, hollow ache sink into him.
• He didn’t say the rest: I want you happy, but seeing your happiness have nothing to do with me—seeing I’m just a passerby in your life—still guts me. And the rational part of me keeps telling me I can’t give you happiness. Only someone like Donnie Burns is truly right for you. I can’t give you joy, and I can’t take it from you either.