Save Her Lose Us (Evangeline and Soren) novel Chapter 482

Jason smiled and nodded. "I will."

After Kearney left, Theresa looked at Jason, her emotions in a tangled knot.

Before she could thank him, Jason met her gaze with a soft smile. "Three years is enough time for you to do whatever you truly want."

Her eyes widened as realization struck.

So those words had just been a stalling tactic to pacify her father? A way to buy her a three-year breathing period?

A strange, inexplicable sense of disappointment washed over her.

"So what you just said... it was only to buy me time," she murmured.

He chuckled softly. "You don't have romantic feelings for me, so naturally, I was just stalling for you."

"But..." he trailed off.

Theresa noticed the smile fading from his eyes, replaced by something profound.

"If you wouldn't mind marrying me, then those words were a promise. I meant every single one." A rare, unshakeable determination flashed in his gaze.

Theresa froze, completely caught off guard.

"This time, the choice is entirely yours. Think it over carefully." He smiled, gently pinching her cheek.

His touch was incredibly tender, his eyes curving into a warm, beautiful arc.

He didn't contact her much after that day, but she heard he was leaving early and returning late, always looking bone-tired.

Soon enough, rumors reached her. Because of the complicated triangle between her, Victor, and Jason, Jason was being severely bullied within the Lockridge household.

The younger Lockridges released snakes into his room, poured filthy mop water over his bed, and even cornered him in the bathroom, threatening him to pack his bags and leave the estate.

It wasn't the first time this had happened. When he first moved in, vicious rumors circulated that he was an illegitimate child, planted there to steal Victor's position as heir.

To put him in his place, the relatives had thrown his luggage into the lake.

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