The Apple of My Eye
Chapter 809 School

Anthony stared at Sue with utter disbelief. "What the hell are you talking about?" After hearing Sue's words, he just could not relate her to the girl he had known for such a long time. His face grew increasingly pale. He had known her to be a well-educated and reasonable girl, who was always so gentle and thoughtful when she spoke to him. He had never thought that Sue would say such annoying and rude words. Sue stared at Anthony with a stern face. She could see how deeply her harsh words had affected Anthony. But she did this on purpose.

All she wanted was to generate so much of hatred and disgust for her in his heart that he would not even like to see her anymore. Yes, she wanted to break up with him once and for all.

"Sue, I... I am shocked to hear that. This is what you think about me? I've never thought that you consider me to be such a wicked man." Anthony said straight to Sue with a wry smile, "I know, I have hurt you deeply. All I want to do is to make up for that. I am awfully sorry if my action makes you get it wrong. Please trust me. That is not my intention."

"Stop it now, Anthony." Sue sneered at Anthony. The coldness in her voice ran a chill down his spine as she continued, "Don't think I've never known that you were just fooling around with me from the beginning to the end. Now, you are afraid that I will take our relationship seriously, so you can't wait to get rid of me. Anthony, you are such a disgusting scum."

"You..." Staring at Sue in front of him, Anthony was rendered speechless. He just could not find an appropriate word to reciprocate to the accusations made by her.

And more than anything else what bothered him the most was the change in her behavior that happened almost overnight.

"So? You have nothing to say? Why are you so speechless?" Sue sneered and said to Anthony who was in front of her, "Anthony, listen! I'm not a fool. I am an independent girl who can afford what she wants. Since you I don't want to take our relationship seriously, I won't be with you anymore. You can be rest assured that I will never badger with you again from now on. I give you my words on that."

Sue was breaking down into pieces inside as she watched Anthony being hurt by her rude and harsh words. Only her soul would be a witness to her bleeding heart as she craftily executed her plan to break up with the man she loved so dearly. A man on whom she showered all her love and support even after knowing that his heart rested on another woman. She gave her all to him till the night before. But everything changed now.

Indeed, she had no other choice. With Peggy coming running after her, she could not risk Anthony and his family to get involved into the muck and grime of her life. The only way for her was to end her relationship with him.

Sue took a deep glance at Anthony, and said to him, "Here is my last words to you! Please don't bother me anymore. We are strangers from now on. Even if we happen to meet each other on the street, please treat me as a stranger and just ignore me. Do you understand?"

"Sue, do you really need to be so heartless?" Anthony tried to move closer to her with an intention to persuade her and looked straight into her eyes. Anthony loved Sheryl and he was clear that he did not want any other girl to take her place. Yes, he had been with Sue during some moments of weakness but he was clear that they could not be together as a couple. Yet, he thought that they could be good friends. However, after hearing what Sue had to say to him this morning, he realized that being friend with Sue was just his illusion.

Sue sneered with coldness, and questioned Anthony, "Heartless? So what I am saying sounds heartless to you, right?"

Sue stared straight into Anthony's eyes and continued, "And what about my dignity, Anthony? My dignity as a girl? Don't you think you have denied my dignity time and again? Though you were with me, you always parked your loyalty on Sheryl. Always pining for her! And now after you have expressed clearly that you wouldn't be with me in the future, you still expect me to be shameless enough to stay with you?" "Sue, I thought we are still friends," Anthony said with a wry smile.

"Friends!" Sue scowled, "Does it even work? Do you think after the intimate relationship we had we could merely be just friends?

Let it go." Sue took a deep sigh and added, "I am really feeling exhausted. Now, please... just let me go."

"

Staring at Anthony in front of her, Sue continued, "Since it is not possible for us to be together, I would rather that we've never known each other. As far as your compensation is concerned, it is not what I want. Yes, even though her financial state was not as well as Anthony's, but her self-esteem made her to turn down his compensation.

Sue had fallen in love with Anthony, but not his property. If he could not return her love, it was alright. But she didn't want Anthony misunderstand that she had any purposes to be with him.

"As you said previously, I came with you out of my own will. As long as you do not bother my life any longer, I'd consider it to be the biggest compensation for me."

After hearing Sue's words, Anthony took a deep breath and said to her, "Well, in that case I have nothing to say. But Sue, you have my words. I know you are angry right now, and you don't want to accept any help from me, but if one day..."

Anthony spoke with a wry smile, "If one day you are really driven into the corner and need a hand, please do call me, okay?"

Anthony looked at Sue imploringly. This was the only way that he could be a little bit relieved in his heart.

However, much contrary to his expectations, Sue sneered with coldness and retorted, "Anthony Xiao, don't ever expect that from me! There won't be such a moment when I would need to ask you for help." Looking straight at Anthony, Sue continued, "And God forbid, even if I come under a hard moment ever in my life, you will be the last person on earth I would turn to."

Sue ended up the conversation with her final words. Then she turned around and left, leaving Anthony behind in the hotel room.

Anthony gazed at the closed door as Sue walked away, feeling a weird void inside his heart. He did not love her but he took support from her when he was in despair. She loved him without an expectation. Anthony would be at peace if she accepted his offer but when she chose her self-esteem and returned his offer, he became a bit unsettled. He thought for a while and realized his mistake. He suddenly thought, 'I am such a jerk. I hurt a girl who loves me so deeply.

To be honest, if I hadn't met Sheryl before or if I did not love Sheryl so deeply, perhaps I would have fallen for Sue.

However, there is no 'if' in the world. I knew and fell in love with Sheryl first, so Sue was doomed to get hurt.' Anthony finally tried to justify his action attributing it to fate.

As Sue walked out of the room, her eyes burst into tears. She knew that it was all over between Anthony and her. Now, she had never hated herself and Peggy so much in her life.

Had it not been for Peggy, she would not have ended her relationship with Anthony.

Three years ago when Peggy had compelled her to marry that old man, she was depressed. She never had hatred for her mother despite all her misdoings. But now her heart was filled with hatred for her mother. She would never forgive her for this.

Outside the hotel, Sue stopped a taxi to go home. After taking a bath at home, she went to the Shining Company with a tired body and two black eyes. The Fashion Show of Shining Company was getting closer and closer. For Sue, merely putting her attention on work could make her forget Anthony.

Nearly lunchtime, everyone went to have lunch, except Sue. Sheryl looked at Sue. Sheryl didn't come to the Shining Company for a while, but Sue had been here everyday. Sheryl observed Sue to be off the mark that day. There was obviously weird about Sue working so hard that day.

Sheryl wanted to ask Sue about what happened. But she immediately stopped herself from thinking that it would not be appropriate for her to interfere.

At that time, Charles came to invite Sheryl to have lunch, and Sheryl left with Charles.

After the lunch, Charles handed over a document, and said to Sheryl, "The kids will go to school next month. I have applied for their admission earlier. I will take Charlie to change his name to Clark tomorrow. I have already arranged an intelligence test for him in the school. If it is okay, I want him to stay in this school for the next two years. After all, he is too young. It is not a good thing for him to skip too many grades. Shirley has also attained the school going age. These are the schools I've found for her, which are also close to his school. What do you think of it?"