All Chapters of Bury My Love for Him: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

I pulled out all my winter clothes and carefully folded them into my suitcase.Suddenly, the front door opened.Someone tiptoed inside. A pair of large hands wrapped around me from behind, and ten cold fingers covered my eyes."Guess who?"The man lowered his voice on purpose, making it deep and smooth, just like he always did when he came home from a business trip and wanted to tease me.The old me would have laughed and said, "Obviously, it’s my handsome man," before taking his hands and warming them for him.Not anymore.There was no sweetness left in me, and I had no interest in playing along. I pulled his hands away and kept folding clothes without looking at him.My boyfriend, Jim Carter, froze for a moment, his cold fingers slowly curling into fists. A second later, however, his shoulders drooped, and whatever anger he had been holding onto seemed to disappear. He looked like a sad puppy caught in the rain."Rose, what's wrong? Isn't a month of giving me the silent tr

"Is that the woman from the video who caused a scene at Mr. Carter's wedding at headquarters? Seriously? She took bereavement leave and disappeared for a while. How does she even have the nerve to come back?""I bet she's here to resign. She's been with the company for ten years, yet she's still only a minor team leader. I heard she applied for a promotion five times and got rejected every time. Some people really are hopeless."Those cutting remarks used to leave me miserable. Now, they barely registered. After all, I had heard plenty of comments like that while arranging my mother's funeral.I kept my eyes straight ahead and knocked on the door of my supervisor's office."Come in."Tessa Wallace glanced at the forms in my hands and nodded with approval."Rose, I couldn't believe you when you told me a couple of days ago that you wanted an overseas assignment. Every time I asked you to take one before, you said you wanted to stay close to your boyfriend and couldn't handle a lon

I reached for another fork, twirled a few noodles around it, and took a bite. They were bland and tasteless.Without looking up, I answered Jim."Since you have your wife to take care of you, why do you need me?"Jim's face darkened instantly. The air around him seemed to turn cold."What wife? Rose, there is a limit to how jealous you can get. Those were just people we both know. Lucia and I were only putting on a show! Do you think I enjoy drinking? I only did it for you!"I almost laughed.He had looked like he was having the time of his life with Lucia. Now, he was standing here, acting like he was the victim.I looked at Jim and slowly repeated, "For me?""Yes, for you!" Jim answered as if it were obvious. "Dad said he'd only make me the heir to the company if I married Lucia. That was the only way I could stay with you and get you transferred to headquarters. All of it is for you and your career!"Lucia's brows tightened almost imperceptibly, and a flash of malice crosse

As if something had just occurred to him, Jim's eyes flickered. He lowered his voice and asked,"Why didn't you tell me that your mom passed away?"I found the question almost laughable.My mother had always thought highly of Jim as her future son-in-law. She used to tell me that marrying him was the luckiest thing that could have happened to me. She had spent years looking forward to the day he would finally become a family.Instead, she got to watch Jim marry someone else.I answered calmly, "There was no need, Mr. Carter. Does headquarters really need to know about an ordinary employee's family matters?"Jim suddenly felt as if the situation was slipping out of his control. The uneasiness inside him kept growing until he could no longer hold it back.His jaw tightened, and his temper flared."How could there be no need? I'm her damn son-in-law!""Whose son-in-law are you?"Everyone froze. Before anyone could react, the office doors swung open.A middle-aged man walked in.

"Rose, don't leave. I’ll forget about becoming president. I don't want the position anymore. All I want is to marry you. I'll get my identification documents back from Dad right now, then we'll go register our marriage. Please?"...Jim was thirty, but because his family had protected him so well, he was still like a child. He seemed to believe that if he put on a wounded expression and apologized, the whole world would have to forgive him.Once, I had found that childish side of him endearing. I had wanted him to stay carefree forever.Now, I was completely disappointed.He had chased after me with that pleading look on his face, not because he loved me, but because he was afraid of losing the obedient, easygoing toy he had always been able to keep by his side.However, the world had never been built to give him everything he wanted. It was time for him to grow up.I looked at Jim, my expression completely calm."Go home. Stop joking around. You spent ten years working for tha