Chapter 28: I Miss You

Bella frowned tightly, what did he mean? Could he help her? Help her for no reason at all? She might not have ambitions, but she wasn't stupid. The messages he implied both directly and indirectly, along with his previous actions, made her unable to help but think in that direction. Unwritten rules? How could he have the nerve to blatantly make such a request? Did he think she was that kind of person? Or did he think she simply couldn't and wouldn't refuse?

Devon didn't say anything more, casually ending the conversation and telling her not to overthink it and rest well. Bella felt nauseous, sitting alone afterward, replaying the sequence of events in her mind. Where did it all start? When he inexplicably called her to the office that day, saying some ambiguous things, did he start setting traps for her from that moment?

Unwritten rules like this happening to her, if she mentioned it to Fiona, Fiona would definitely laugh at her for being delusional. How could a married woman like h