Half-Hearted: Mr. Sinclair, Stop the Act!-Chapter 194: Another Dream

Sienna Monroe also hadn’t expected Caleb Sinclair to come looking for her.

She didn’t want anything more to do with him.

So when she heard his opening line, she interrupted him without hesitation, "No need, it’s already solved. Don’t trouble yourself, Mr. Sinclair."

She spoke with cold indifference, then turned to leave.

Caleb saw this and hurried forward to grab her arm, "Sienna, don’t go. I just wanted to see you. It’s been too long, I really..."

miss you.

Unfortunately, before he could finish, Sienna interrupted coldly, "Let go!"

Sienna resisted his touch, scolded him, then forcefully shook off his hand.

"Okay, I won’t touch you, don’t be mad."

Caleb quickly withdrew his hand upon seeing her strong reaction.

He softened his tone, appearing somewhat humble and pleading, "Sienna, I know you’re angry with me, but it’s been almost a month. Can you?"

As Sienna heard these words, she lifted her eyes to look at him, thinking this was probably the biggest joke she’d heard all year.

She asked in return, "What? Do you think that cheating on me with my best friend, getting her pregnant, conspiring to deceive me, and then drugging me are things that can be erased with a month’s time?

Caleb Sinclair, do you really have no heart? How can you shamelessly speak such words as if nothing happened?

Or do you think, since the consequences haven’t affected you, you don’t feel the pain, and instead blame me for making a big deal out of it?"

Caleb opened his mouth, but Sienna’s words were like daggers, cutting into the softest part of his heart.

His complexion changed, embarrassment and awkwardness spreading across his face.

He stammered in explanation, "Sienna, I didn’t mean it like that. I know that those things were my mistakes..."

But Sienna didn’t want to listen, there was no need to hear his repetitive words.

Since she exposed his actions until now.

He’s repeated those words countless times.

Apologizing again and again, but what’s the result?

Sienna sneered lightly and turned to walk toward her car.

But footsteps followed her, hurried and anxious.

She opened the car door, not rushing to get inside.

Instead, she turned her head to warn, "Caleb Sinclair, don’t follow me, or I’ll call the police to report you for malicious harassment!"

"I..."

Caleb’s helpless voice was cut off outside the car door, mingling with the sound of the engine.

In the end, he could do nothing but watch her drive away in the dust.

Just like the day she moved out from under the moon.

The taste of deep helplessness was even more bitter than Chinese medicine.

He slowly lowered his arm, and suddenly his phone beeped.

It was a message notification.

He stiffened, took a deep breath, and checked the message content on his phone.

[Sienna Monroe and Sebastian Prescott live in the same neighborhood, the same building. Did you know? Have you heard the saying "the moon comes early to places near the water"? If you don’t take action, you’ll completely lose Sienna Monroe.

Women are sentimental. You’ve been together for over six years, are you really willing to hand her over?]

His pupils trembled violently.

The same neighborhood?!

Sebastian also lives at The Left Bank Courtyard?

How could they live so close?

Was it... already planned?

He recalled Sebastian’s extremely cold and disdainful response outside the courthouse.

"I never denied."

"Friends, pursuer."

He felt a sharp pain, suddenly struggling to breathe.

Sebastian admitted he liked Sienna. This was his acknowledgment.

What about Sienna?

What feelings does she have for Sebastian?

If Sienna is interested in him too...

They now live so close, plus they have the lawyer-client relationship.

Wouldn’t they be...

He stared intently at the phrase "the moon comes early to places near the water."

His jaw tightened, and the shadowy gloom slowly surfaced in his eyes, completely covering the warmth and softness.

Almost crushing his molars.

If Sienna and Sebastian really ended up together, then what?

He’d be completely abandoned by Sienna.

Sienna would never belong to him again in this lifetime.

Yet he dared not imagine what his life would become if he truly lost Sienna for good?

He focused on the words "sentimental" in the message, his eyes slightly dimming, heart pounding intensely.

*

Sienna returned home, shaking off the frustration from her encounter with Caleb.

She walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, watered the azaleas on the low table, then went to the bathroom for a shower.

After coming out, she applied simple skincare and went to bed early.

After midnight, the embroidering black night started to spread the mist that lingered in the air bit by bit.

This rain fell with exceptional patience, like The Enlightened Sage using willow branches to wipe the already sleeping city repeatedly with a glass bottle.

Sienna was not disturbed by the sound of rain.

Instead, she was deeply immersed in a dream.

In the dream, it was the same afternoon of March 4th, when online exposure revealed Audrey’s painting "Quantum Rose’s Sigh" plagiarized "Indigo Quill" master’s "Crimson Paradox."

The incident came so suddenly, causing a great uproar online.

She discussed with Audrey and decided to ask "Indigo Quill" master to explain the matter.

But unlike now, in the dream, "Indigo Quill" master appeared at the exhibition’s closing ceremony as the final guest, explaining the matter in front of numerous reporters and media.

The online rumors, insults, and slander then subsided and ceased.

As for the mastermind behind the plagiarism, the dream’s her seemed unaware.

The images were not very clear; afterward, there was a lack of order.

This time she didn’t wake abruptly, but slowly opened her eyes in the darkness.

The sound of rain hitting the glass drifted into her slightly buzzing ears.

She furrowed her brows slightly, raised a hand to her forehead.

Another dream like this.

Her gaze, trapped in the night, was hazy and lost, as if something was being drawn from her body.

She let those blurry, chaotic images gradually fade away in her mind.

The clarification of the plagiarism incident used the same method but was resolved two days earlier than in the dream.

The clarification happened that evening.