บททั้งหมดของ Giving up After 99 Bad Omens: บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 10

Clara froze, too. "You two…"Caleb quickly grabbed her hand. "Clara, please don't ask, okay? I..."I couldn't stand another second of his performance. I turned on my heel to leave, but Clara stopped me again."I don't care what your history is. You bumped into him, so you owe him an apology. Caleb is a doctor. His hands are precious, and you almost injured him earlier."The burn on the back of my hand felt as if something were biting into the skin, the pain radiating all the way to my chest. I lifted my hand, exposing the raw, angry red skin to her."There's plenty of space in the aisle. I was standing beside my own table. He was the one who came over and ran into me. Besides, I'm hurt, too. This wasn't my fault, so I'm not apologizing."Clara's gaze fell on the back of my hand. For a brief second, something shifted in her calm eyes.I pushed past them, asked a server for an ice pack, and left.As I headed for the exit, I couldn't help but glance back one last time.Caleb was

Dylan's eyes had reddened by the time he was done talking, and even his breathing was unsteady. It was obvious he felt bad for me.Everyone in our circle knew I had spent three years chasing after Clara without getting anything in return. Yet the moment Caleb came back to Corvia, I was kicked out of my own home, and even Clara was snatched away from me.They were all waiting for me to make a fool of myself.I gave an indifferent laugh and comforted him instead, "Relax. I'm marrying Selene Shaw. When that happens, they're going to be choking on their own envy."The Shaw family's empire sat on a foundation far deeper than ours. Rumor had it that they had connections in politics, too, and that made them practically untouchable in Arland.At that thought, Dylan immediately gave me a look that said I had better not forget him once I made it big. "True. When that happens, you'd better slap the smug looks right off their faces!"He suddenly brightened, pointing at a white suit displayed

I nodded calmly."Yes, I knew. If I'd known sooner that you were so sick of me you had to pull something like that just to make me back off, I would've given up a long time ago. With that said, Clara, I won't like you anymore."Clara's eyes widened in disbelief as the color drained from her face.After a long while, she stammered, "N-No… I wasn't sick of you…"I had no patience left for her excuses, so I turned and stepped into the elevator. Clara stood there and watched me in silence, a flash of pain crossing her eyes.Outside the hotel, we ran right into Caleb, who had his arm around Dad and was laughing joyfully. When his eyes landed on me and on Selene holding my hand, jealousy flickered across his gaze.Dad was surprised the moment he noticed Selene, but he quickly recovered. He immediately put on a smile and stepped forward to greet her.I tugged Selene back. She had been about to say hello, but she caught the displeasure in my eyes and bit back the greeting."Ms. Shaw, w

I rolled my eyes in sheer disbelief and signaled for the track manager to come over. "Hi, could I see the surveillance footage from this area?"Caleb looked up in shock when he heard that.The manager knew I had come with Selene, so he quickly had someone pull the footage.Panicking, Caleb tried to stop him. "N-No, you can't!"Catching the flicker of confusion in Clara's eyes, he stammered, "C-Clara, do you not believe me? Why would you need to check the footage?"Clara's brows furrowed ever so slightly, but she didn't say anything.Caleb's eyes darted around in panic. When he realized he couldn't stop it, he fell back on the same pitiful act again. "Fine. If you don't trust me, I'll just leave! Lucas only slapped me because he was upset. I'm fine, really."Clara instinctively reached out and caught his hand. Caleb shot me a subtle, triumphant smirk.The next second, the manager came over with a tablet. "I have the footage right here, Mr. Lucas."Caleb's smirk froze on his fac

Side Story"The first time Clara met me was in the backyard of the tarot studio.I was holding a coin, trying to toss it into a wishing well, but I took a wrong step and accidentally twisted my ankle."Clara came over and asked if I was okay. My face had been scrunched up from the pain, but somehow, the moment I saw her, I smiled.After that, I told her I was going to pursue her.Clara never understood why I had suddenly fallen for her.When she helped me back, I'd even muttered under my breath that she was like a robot, cold and detached, yet the very next day, I was standing in front of her again, smiling.She rejected me, just like she always did.But I was stubborn. No matter how distant she was, I kept showing up anyway.In the end, she had no choice but to tell me to draw a card. If I drew the Lovers card, she would marry me.I had been beaming.Seeing how happy I looked, Clara felt a strange pang of emotion in her chest. She had already hidden the Lovers card, so I ne