The Headline Queen: President Hawthorne is Her Die-Hard Fan!-Chapter 528: Beyond Redemption

Henry Hale’s eyes were red, staring intensely at Paige Sterling.

"Paige, can’t you just give in to me? As long as you give in, I can give you anything."

Paige’s response was to somehow find a shard of glass and stab it towards him.

This time, Henry detected her movement in time, grabbed her hand, glanced at the shard of glass in her hand, and said, "Paige, so you really want me dead."

"You know this already, don’t you?"

Henry’s expression was furious; he always felt powerless on how to conquer Paige, "Paige, do you really think I won’t do anything to you?"

His gaze was penetrating, obsessive, and frantic, "If I die, I’ll take you with me. If you die, I’ll accompany you in death. You’ll never escape from my side in this lifetime."

Then Paige witnessed Henry staging a live performance of multiple personalities; one moment, he was ferocious; the next, he became gentle.

"Paige, why don’t we get married?"

Paige saw his face change back and forth and genuinely didn’t want to provoke him anymore.

Yet she still loathed Henry’s words.

"Henry Hale, can you keep it down to earth with your words?"

Henry seemed pained, "In your eyes, me wanting to marry you is unrealistic? Paige? It’s just marriage, and you are so repulsive of me?"

Paige responded to Henry with a sarcastic laugh, refusing to budge an inch.

Henry said, "Think seriously about it. Take as long as you need; I can wait until you figure it out."

"Have you forgotten that I have a marital relationship with Julian Hawthorne?"

Henry’s brows furrowed, "Don’t mention him in front of me anymore. One day, I’ll make him disappear completely!"

Paige didn’t argue anything concerning this topic with Henry.

If Henry could really deal with Julian, he’d have done it already.

"Paige, give me a chance, I can be better to you than Julian, I can give you everything I have."

Paige closed her eyes, no longer wanting to speak with Henry.

Especially now, in the public eye, Henry truly seemed like a lunatic.

In the end, it was simply that Henry couldn’t have what he desired, so he fixated on it. Paige owed Henry nothing and had no obligation to cooperate with him.

Paige calmed down, and Henry stopped speaking, directly carrying Paige back to the room.

Paige had some scrapes on her body, and Henry insisted on applying medicine despite her struggles, his hands rather indiscreet.

Paige’s face was icy, "Henry Hale, if you don’t like your hands, just let me know."

Her icy demeanor starkly contrasted with her bright face, which sent Henry into another frenzy, suddenly pinning Paige to the bed.

Paige struggled, but the more she struggled, the more excited Henry became.

He seemed to discover a way to deal with Paige and laughed with great malice.

Paige knew Henry was now enjoying her struggling, so she ceased her efforts, only to hear Henry whisper in her ear, "Paige, are you thinking that if you stop struggling, I’ll lose interest? You think too naively, when a man wants to do bad things, whether you struggle or not..."

Paige didn’t speak, only her gaze turned even colder.

Henry laughed, "No matter what you’re thinking, my intention won’t change. I’ll make Julian see the day you’re laughing in my arms."

Paige chuckled, "Didn’t you say not to bring up Julian? Seems you are indeed intimidated by him."

Henry suddenly choked, "Do you have to provoke me?"

Paige, "Please, if you’re sick, go to the hospital for treatment, don’t go mad in front of me."

Henry, "You’re just taking advantage of my reluctance to do anything to you, so you dare to provoke me."

Paige scoffed, "Whether or not you dare to do something to me is your problem. What does it have to do with me? Stop putting gold on your own face."

Henry felt suffocated with anger from Paige.

He sighed, "I promise today’s event won’t happen again in the future."

Paige didn’t care about this; regarding people she didn’t care about, no matter what they did to her, she wouldn’t have any surplus emotion.

Because only those who matter most can truly hurt us.

She didn’t care about Henry, so the harm he could cause her was only physical.

Henry subsequently said, "So I hope you can let go of your prejudice against me. Let’s get along well in the future; maybe you’ll find I’m the most suitable person for you."

Paige didn’t speak, and Henry continued talking on his own, "Paige, I will prove with actions that everything I said today is true. Someday, you’ll believe me."

He thought Paige wouldn’t respond to him anymore, but to his surprise, she said, "Henry Hale, I once truly admired you."

She looked at Henry, "But that was in the past."

Henry looked at her, his lips moved slightly, "Why?"

Paige said, "Everyone has their own thoughts, but I believe no matter how deviant or unaccepted one’s ideas are, there should at least be basic boundaries. Yet you have completely lost the bottom line of being human. Of course, I have no right to criticize you, but I can choose not to stand with you because I have my own stance. So, Henry, our values don’t align. You can restrain me, Mrs. Yorke can lock me up forever, or kill me. I will never yield to your means or emotions. My stance will never change."

Fatty Sterling had never, in his life, said so much to Henry Hale in one breath, leaving him momentarily speechless.

Because he had no way to refute Paige’s words, it took him a while to say, "Paige, I don’t deny what you say, but stance is something that can change."

"Then why can’t your stance change?"

"My stance is correct; I will never change."

"Why demand me to change then? Don’t impose on others what you don’t desire. I haven’t forced you, so please don’t force me."

"In the end, you just blame me for using some means on you."

Going around in circles, the topic returned.

Paige found that sometimes Henry could be quite unreasonable.

She sighed, "Whatever, do as you please, neither of us can convince the other anyway."

Henry didn’t stop the conversation, "Paige, if you could believe in my sincerity and accept it, then your and my stance will eventually align. We will pursue our shared ideals together..."

Paige felt Henry was beyond redemption.