Standing Before Love (Myra and Sean)

Chapter 498

He hadn’t expected Heather to make such a move at all, and Matthias bumped into her vehicle head-

on since it was too late for him to dodge her car. As he muttered an expletive under his breath, he

immediately flung his arms over his head while his car shook violently.

Perhaps no woman could be crazier than Heather. She staggered out of her car after the crash, and

Matthias also got out of his car soon after that.

Then, Heather stopped moving and fixed her unexpressive eyes that showed no sadness or joy on

Matthias. Meanwhile, Matthias suppressed his anger and approached Heather step by step. He didn’t

expect that Heather would actually do such a dangerous thing as to crash her car into his. “Are you

insane, Heather?” he scolded loudly. Heather was simply courting death, for even Matthias didn’t have

the nerve to do such a thing.

However, Heather merely stared at Matthias without any response until he got close to her. Matthias

could no longer conceal the anger on his face as he grabbed her, but she didn’t even look at him, and

her tone of voice was extremely chilly. “Don’t touch me. I’ll pay you for the car.” She had no warmth

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Matthias let go of Heather, but he had to constantly remind himself of the purpose for coming to her.

“You don’t have to pay me; if you want to pay me for the car, just give yourself up to me as

compensation.” As he spoke, he kept a slight distance away from her. He mustn’t risk big losses for the

sake of small gains. At any rate, neither of them suffered any injuries in this time’s car crash.

Unfortunately, Matthias’s car was completely wrecked in the crash. The car was his favorite, yet this

was already the second time Heather had bumped her car against it. The last car crash only resulted in

a scrape, whereas the damage done to his car this time seemed quite serious.

“I’m begging you—please don’t follow me around anymore. I have many matters to attend to right now,

so I don’t have any time to waste on you.” Heather was really tired of getting along with Matthias in

such a way. Nothing good would happen whenever she was with him, for he brought her lots of trouble.

“What do you want to do? I’ll keep you company.” Matthias tightened the screws on Heather. He

decided to put on a brazen front this time, for he had to persuade her no matter what.

I want you to stay away from me, Heather thought to herself. Could this be Matthias’s retaliation? She

grew increasingly wary at the sight of his ‘malicious-looking’ face.

“Please give me a chance.” Matthias was pondering in his mind, thinking about how he should profess

his love to her. The thought of professing his love made him blush, for he no longer had the motivation

he once had when he was younger.

A nameless atmosphere filled the air between them as Heather didn’t know what Matthias meant by the

word ‘chance.’ Just then, they heard the wailing of police sirens. Since they did not know who had

‘kindheartedly’ called the police for them, they looked at each other in dismay. Now, they were in

trouble by attracting the police.

As she looked at the scene before her eyes, Heather wondered how to explain this situation to the

police. Just as she was looking around for any surveillance cameras, Matthias leaned over and said to

her, “There aren’t any surveillance cameras.”

“I don’t have time to go to the police station right now.” Heather looked at Matthias frostily. She didn’t

know whether she was teaching Matthias a lesson or giving herself a hard time, for even the police had

been alerted this time.

“It’s not a problem.” Surprisingly, Matthias was unusually good-tempered that day. Heather thought he

was going to blow his top, so it surprised her that he didn’t seem angry at all. When the police car

pulled over, Matthias stepped up and explained as if he was an outsider, “I’m sorry, but a car accident

just happened.”

The police officer glanced at the two cars. Both cars were luxury vehicles, so the two people before him

seemed to be rich. Furthermore, there were no signs of distress on their faces. He wondered who

these two people were, though he surmised that they must be remarkably wealthy. “Which one of them

is yours?” he asked Matthias as a matter of routine. It was a car accident, after all.

Matthias pointed to his car and answered, “That’s my car. I’m the one responsible for the accident, and

I’m willing to take full responsibility for that.” Since Heather didn’t want to waste any time, he would

settle this matter as soon as possible.

The police officer was baffled by this as he looked at Matthias with a frown. Is there anyone responsible

for an accident who will take the blame so readily? Furthermore, the atmosphere was very weird since

Heather was merely standing off to the side silently.

The police officer didn’t come to his senses for a long while. Just then, he heard Heather rebut, “I’m the

one responsible for the accident, and I’m willing to take full responsibility for that.” She didn’t want

Matthias to cover for her since she was willing to admit her own wrongdoings.

The police officer’s face seemed to have several question marks popping up on it. This accident was

becoming increasingly weird; it was so strange that these two people were scrambling to take the

blame for the car accident and talked so big as to offer to take full responsibility. “This is a surveillance

blind spot. Which of you is responsible for the accident?” The police officer felt that he was being

fooled. Do these two rich people have too much free time on their hands?!

“It’s me,” Heather and Matthias chorused.

Heather felt that Matthias was deliberately messing with her. She was the one who purposely rammed

her car into his, yet he scrambled to claim responsibility for the car accident. Clearly, he was wasting

her time in a different way.

“Please come with me to the police station, both of you,” ordered the police officer as he was put on the

spot. It seemed that the matter wasn’t going to be solved for a while, so he’d better take them to the

police station to have their statements recorded!

“I don’t have time to go to the police station. I have something urgent to attend to.” Heather had

contacted Leon and asked him to drive over to pick her up. She had provided him with all the

necessary equipment, so he would probably arrive in a minute.

Matthias thought for a moment before he agreed, “That’s right. I don’t have time to go to the police

station either; I also have something urgent to attend to.”

The police officer was bummed out at once. What do these two people mean? Both of them are putting

on airs as if they’re some big guns, he thought to himself. Just then, Matthias added on purpose, “We’ll

settle the claims for the cars ourselves, so we don’t have to go to the police station.”

However, this upset the police officer even more. Do they think they’re in the right? They simply have

no regard for the law! Thus, he said angrily, “This is not only about your cars. You two have damaged

public property!”

Matthias glanced at the damage done to the public property before he frowned slightly. “How much

money should I pay as compensation? I’ll pay the money right now,” he asked while taking out his

wallet. Matthias pretended to be in a rush and continued, “I really have something urgent to attend to.

I’ll lose 100 million if I’m held up any longer.”

His tone of voice annoyed the police officer, but Heather wasn’t easy to deal with either. She echoed, “I

also have an emergency to deal with. If you want to take my statement, you may go to the Langston

Group and ask for me.” She mentioned the Langston Group directly while glancing at her watch in a

seemingly anxious manner. After all, almost everyone in Bradfort City knew the Langston Group.

After the long dilly-dallying, the police officer finally had to let Heather and Matthias off due to the

double pressure from them. On the other hand, Leon—who had arrived long ago—kept looking on

without saying a word; it wasn’t until the police car drove away that he opened the car door.

Since he noticed Leon’s car a while ago, Matthias had been wondering why someone would drive to

the scene of a car accident. When he saw Leon getting out of his car, he instantly got angry. He was

immensely displeased since he didn’t expect Heather to call Leon over directly.

Meanwhile, Leon leaned against the car while he urged Heather, “Hurry up and come over.” As he

spoke, he threw Matthias a provocative look. He had known Matthias for a long time, for Matthias was

the one who previously tied Heather up in knots. Leon had such a person checked out a long time ago,

so he knew Matthias to a certain extent.

As Heather hurried up to Leon, Matthias looked at his hand in disappointment; he could never hold

Heather’s hand in his. Seeing how compatible Heather and Leon looked as they stood side by side, he

felt an inexplicable sense of loss. He wanted to speak, but his words were stuck in his throat. In the

end, he could only watch as Heather got into Leon’s car and left behind a heap of mess before him. He

had an indescribable feeling inside him, for he had never been so upset.

Meanwhile, Leon made faces at Heather in the car and was greeted with a slap from her. Why must he

make his face look so funny? she thought to herself.

“The way I see it, President Locke is very much enamored by you,” Leon remarked without fear of

death.

Heather’s face froze visibly. “What nonsense are you talking about?” she muttered in an annoyed tone.

After all, she didn’t want to get involved with Matthias in any way.

However, Leon didn’t stop asking for trouble. “Since you both love each other, why should you two

keep tormenting each other pointlessly?”

Heather furrowed her brows as she had an urge to kick Leon out of the car directly. “You really are a

blabbermouth.” She didn’t want to listen to his nonsense anymore, so she took out her earphones.

“Where would you like to go, my president?” Leon was still speaking in a bantering tone, but how could

Heather know the care and thought behind his words? After watching Heather as she let one man slip

after another through her fingers over the years, he was worried that Heather might actually plan to

remain single for the rest of her life—he could never approve of this. Now that he saw Matthias, he

thought that Heather could try dating Matthias even though he didn’t have a good opinion of the latter.

“An Apple Store,” Heather uttered icily. It seemed that Matthias was a great influence on her; he

affected her mood, yet she stubbornly pretended that she didn’t care about him. Unfortunately, the

various details about her response gave her feelings away.

Like a child who would never be satisfied, Leon loved Heather’s haughtiness very, very much. “I don’t

know my way around here,” he said in displeasure, for Heather was obviously picking on him for having

no sense of direction.

Come to think of it, Leon couldn’t be blamed for having no sense of direction. After all, he had just

arrived in Bradfort City recently, so how could he know the way to an Apple Store? However, Heather

would never make someone else feel comfortable when she was feeling ill at ease. “Don’t ever mention

Matthias in front of me again,” she said while taking Leon’s cell phone. After finding and opening the

navigation app, she looked at him coldy and loftily. “Just follow the navigation instructions.”

Leon could only continue driving without any protests. He thought he’d better not mess with Heather at

this moment, for her frosty expression seemed a bit scary.

On the other hand, Heather was somewhat peeved after checking the time; she had wasted more than

an hour. Then, she wondered if she should go to church when she was free. She didn’t know if her birth

chart was incompatible with Matthias’s, but his presence brought her so much bad luck that she simply

took him for a plague that she couldn’t wait to stay away from. When the car stopped in front of the

Apple Store, she instructed Leon and said, “Just wait for me outside. I’ll come out in a minute.”

Heather simply bought an iPhone 7 since it happened to come on the market. She was a marvelously

quick buyer, so she told the salesperson what she wanted and picked it up directly. The phone in her

hand had a black glossy finish, and it emitted a different feel compared to the previous models. Then,

Heather quickly inserted her SIM card into it. The new cell phone gave her an indescribable feeling,

though she couldn’t tell whether she felt good or bad.

After tapping into her Facebook, she immediately opened her photo album—she had the photo of the

person stalking Myra saved there. Then, Heather showed it to Leon since they had some time while

waiting for the traffic light to turn green. “Please check out this person for me.” She wanted to keep this

matter quiet. Since Leon was trustworthy, she thought she’d better let him help her, for he must have a

good way to do this.

“You’ve been ordering me around instead of giving me a welcome ever since I arrived in Bradfort City.”

Leon began to banter facetiously again. No matter what, he had to tease Heather every single day to

be happy.

“What do you want—a car or a house?” Heather had always been generous.

“What a squanderer you are! You should give presents within reasonable limits. Don’t give away a few

million at the drop of a hat. Your money didn’t grow on trees; instead, you earned them bit by bit.”

Leon’s heart ached for the money Heather gave away, for he had seen with his own eyes how Heather

got hospitalized after overworking herself. Sadly, Heather never cared about the money she worked

hard to earn, and she was always lavish with gifts.