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Chapter 54 Halle\u2019s Half-Year Romance\u00a0<\/p>\n
She felt nothing. Not a single extra emotion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When Ayla walked out of the restroom, Troy noticed her from the corner of his eye.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He didn\u2019t feel the need to consider her feelings. He finished what he needed to say, hung up the phone, then finally turned to look at her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He looked indifferent, but he was actually studying her carefully.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She looked different.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She was wearing a white suit. It wasn\u2019t branded, but the quality and the cut was good. It highlighted her cool vibe, making her seem\u2026 sharper than usual.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And that was what made him uneasy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are you doing here?\u201d Troy asked coldly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ayla definitely wasn\u2019t going to tell the truth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Halle was her friend. Slapping Skyla\u2019s ego was done for her sake.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If someone else hurt Skyla, Troy would just coldly teach them a lesson and leave it at that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But if she did it, Troy would be furious.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Because Troy couldn\u2019t stand her disobeying him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Once, when Martin was sick and she couldn\u2019t reach Troy, she had to ask his secretary for his schedule. He got offended and didn\u2019t come home for a month.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So if she \u201cbullied\u201d the woman he loved, he definitely wouldn\u2019t tolerate it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The punishment would be more than just Halle losing a few business deals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That also showed just how badly Troy treated her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He didn\u2019t care about her family, her friends-anything about her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ayla thought about it and said flatly, \u201cAll you can do here is eat.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Troy frowned, then relaxed again.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Playing hard-to-get only works if someone cares. Troy didn\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n
1\/3\u00a0<\/p>\n
lall\u00a0<\/p>\n
+IU Free Coins\u00a0<\/p>\n
No matter what Ayla did, he wouldn\u2019t give her a second glance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But he still didn\u2019t like what she said today. He mocked her coldly, \u201cYou haven\u2019t been home for half a month. Do you even remember how to cook for me?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ayla clenched her hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In Troy\u2019s eyes, her only \u201cfunction\u201d was cooking.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ayla said coldly, \u201cI never liked cooking. It\u2019s not a bad thing that I forgot.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Troy heard the sarcasm in her voice, and his expression turned dark. \u201cSo?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, I\u2019m not cooking for you anymore.\u201d Ayla met Troy\u2019s eyes, her gaze cold. Then she turned and walked away, giving Troy an icy back.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In all the time Troy had known Ayla, he had only seen her nervously trying to please him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She chose every word to keep him happy; she was always watching his mood.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was clearly in a bad mood, yet Ayla wasn\u2019t afraid-she was escalating the situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Troy frowned. Bria was right. Ayla had changed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just not in a way he liked.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If she wanted to win him over, she should\u2019ve changed in ways that pleased him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Stupid.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Troy always knew why Ayla was upset and staying away from home. He didn\u2019t care. He wasn\u2019t even curious why she\u2019d turned cold.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Because the outcome would be the same-sooner or later, Ayla would come back.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Any extra thought was a waste of time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Troy stopped thinking about her and went back to the private room.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After Skyla finished talking with Rolf, she suddenly thought of John.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Halle might\u2019ve pissed her off, but LugiX was valuable. John worked there and could help her get information.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The thought made Skyla smirk with contempt. She\u2019d seen too many losers like John.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The fact that she\u2019d reached out to him was probably the highlight of his pathetic life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
2\/3\u00a0<\/p>\n
Asking him for a favor was basically a reward.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Skyla was just about to text him to ask what happened after Halle dragged him out, but John had already texted her first.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSkyla, Halle fired me. I didn\u2019t want to stay at that company anyway, so it\u2019s fine. You came to see me so suddenly today, you\u2019re probably still nearby, right? Want to grab lunch and catch up?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Skyla frowned in disgust.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Him? Catch up with me? Over lunch?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rolf saw her expression. \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSpam,\u201d Skyla said, then blocked John.\u00a0<\/p>\n
To avoid running into Troy, Ayla and Halle waited for a while after lunch, and left one after the other.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since Halle had been drinking, Ayla was worried and offered to drive her home.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Halle said, \u201cNo need. My boyfriend\u2019s picking me up.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ayla knew she had a fianc\u00e9.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Halle shrugged. \u201cWe\u2019re just having fun. We agreed on the first day we started dating that we\u2019d break up in six months, so I never told you about him. Let me check the calendar-we only have a few weeks left until the breakup.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ayla was baffled.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After thinking for a moment, Ayla asked, \u201cWhat about you and Will?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Halle looked at Ayla with surprise. \u201cAre you trying to set us up?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cJust curious.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Halle clicked her tongue and satisfied Ayla\u2019s curiosity. \u201cWe\u2019re just friends. Nothing\u2019s going on. If he\u2019s into me and doesn\u2019t mind a six-month relationship, I can give it a try. He\u2019s cuter than when he was a kid. I kinda like him.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
3\/3\u00a0<\/p>\n
Unwritten Feelings Drift by Austen 54 \u00a0 Chapter 54 Halle\u2019s Half-Year Romance\u00a0 She felt nothing. Not a single extra emotion.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retired-from-your-heart-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}