Chapter 196

Natalia's POV

I kept my eyes fixed on Max while he drove. But my thoughts were elsewhere at the time.

"Where are you lost?" he asked.

Almost instantly, I turned my gaze away from him. "Nowhere."

I closed my eyes as I leaned back against the seat. My thoughts kept going back to the apology that Adrian had made.

Regarding the two years that I had spent with him, I could not help but laugh at myself.

I did not do anything he disliked. Like a doll, whenever he returned home, I used to serve him. He never came back home early so that he did not have to eat dinner with me.

How could apologizing make me feel better?

I would never be able to forgive him.

It was beyond my ability.

"Natalia."

I opened my eyes and turned to Max.

"Thank you, Max. I am blessed to have a friend like you. You are ready to help my brother. I can't be more grateful to anyone than you."

When he picked me up from the bridge an hour ago, he took me to a restaurant so that we could have a conversation.

I convinced him to