Chapter 113: Evelyn Grant, I Am Not Afraid

Chapter 113: Chapter 113: Evelyn Grant, I Am Not Afraid

"Don’t do this, Ryan Sterling! Don’t humble yourself like this..."

How could Evelyn Grant bear to see a golden boy like him stooping so low to beg her?

"I don’t care what happens to me. I only want you. I can compromise on everything else. There’s nothing I can’t accept."

No one could ever know what he went through during those years abroad!

Every day, Ryan Sterling found himself wanting to know about Evelyn Grant, yet simultaneously dreading what he might learn!

It was a torment that no one who hadn’t experienced it could ever possibly comprehend!

Even Ryan Sterling, who had mentally prepared himself before going abroad, couldn’t restrain himself—so how could anyone else?

Truly, every single second was an ordeal.

"Ryan Sterling, you told your mother, so you should be well aware of what we’ll face in the future... We might be dealing with judgmental stares from countless people and a lack of understanding from our families. This situation might follow us for the rest of our lives. Have you thought this all through?"

Ryan Sterling didn’t answer her question, asking Evelyn Grant one in return instead.

"What about you? Are you afraid?"

’Afraid?’

After a few seconds’ pause, Evelyn Grant laughed.

"If it weren’t for my mother, I’d have nothing to be afraid of. I’ve even been through a death sentence—what’s left for me to fear?" But after saying this, she quickly backtracked. "But you’re different! Ryan Sterling, if you walk away now, we can still put everything back where it was."

It was genuinely painful for her to see Ryan Sterling sacrificing so much on her behalf.

’If it weren’t for me, he wouldn’t have to be like this at all.’

’Ryan Sterling is the powerful president of a corporation, the pride of the entire Sterling Clan, a good son and brother in the eyes of his parents and siblings, and yet now...’

’His entire image has shattered.’

’Everything is different now.’

"We can’t go back! We passed that point a long time ago! From the moment I returned, I never had any intention of handing you over to anyone else—including my own brother! He already failed you; he doesn’t have the right to be by your side again! And as for anyone else, I’d trust them even less!"

"You—"

"Evelyn Grant, I’m not afraid."

Ryan Sterling cut her off, his voice filled with unshakable resolve. "I’m not afraid of any gossip or slander, and I don’t fear anyone’s judgmental gaze! The only thing in this world I’m afraid of is you leaving me, of you not being mine."

He no longer had any pride to speak of. He was ready to give up everything else.

"Evelyn Grant, I want to have a home with you. To come home from work every day and see you, to see our child, and then... to hold him, kiss him, watch him grow up bit by bit, learn to walk and talk, and hear him call me ’Daddy’! What a blissful life that would be. I never even dared to imagine it before!"

"Will you regret this one day...? I’m afraid you’ll come to regret it, afraid our marriage won’t last, either."

In the end, Evelyn Grant was still haunted by her past.

She had already failed once. If it happened again, Evelyn Grant didn’t know how she would be able to face it!

"Trust me, just this once, hmm? You don’t have to answer me now. I’ll say it again: I will wait for you. I will always be waiting. I’ll wait for whenever you’re ready, whenever you’re truly willing to be my wife! I won’t force you to agree right now."

He had made every possible concession, putting everything he had to offer on the table.