Waiting For a Girl Like You - Chapter 1044 I Will Never Leave You Again

At the last minute, he regained his balance and took her hand. “Callie, no. I… I’m living a good life now. There’s nowhere else I’d like to be other than here.”

Carla couldn’t help but cry at what he just said.

“You are lying! You call this a good life?”

She fired back at him. Compared to his figure three years ago, he was all skin and bones now. His once handsome face was marred by years of struggle Carla couldn’t even imagine.

“Callie, I’m really good. My weight dropped because I’m not feeling well these days. But I will be fine,”

Steven said as he tried to avoid eye contact with Carla.

Over the past three years, his father had been thrown into jail. The Su Family suffered a disastrous decline. He had tried his best, but his efforts were in vain. It felt like the world was asking too much from him. He just wanted to rest, a blissful respite from the greedy universe.

After everything, he had lost all hope for anything good.

Reality had shattered his faith in life.

Carla looked at him. She was too late.

If she hadn’t found him today, his tombstone would be what she saw in a year or two.

“You don’t have any choice. You have to go back with me.”

She couldn’t just stand by and do nothing. Now that Steven couldn’t live without her, she decided that he could stay with her. After all, there were already many people around her and she could manage him staying around her.

“Callie… Please don’t be like that. I promise you, I’m really good. My paintings are selling well. This whole building is owned by me. I just… I’m not lying,”

Steven lowered his head. He looked at her hand he was holding and didn’t dare to look up at her.

He was no longer the brilliant and proud man he used to be.

“Really? Well, I’m not doing well. Especially when I see the way you look right now.”

“Callie…”

Carla stepped forward and hugged him.

The hug made her sadder. He used to be healthy and so full of life. Holding him now felt like holding a bag of bones. Her heart ached for him.

“Steven, you must come back with me. You know that I’m in charge here. And I command that you to come with me!”

Carla said with conviction, her voice shaking.

He had been living miserably here in Yu Village. And she had known nothing about it. She felt sorry for him but more than that, she felt regretful that she didn’t find him

ly in her dreams if Steven had truly died.

“But you brought me back to life.” Steven hugged her tighter and continued, “Callie, since you pulled me out of desperation, I will never leave you again.”

Carla patted him on the shoulder and said unconsciously, “That’s good. I am short of help now. Since you’re practically sponging off me now, you can’t just sit and do nothing, right?”

A few years back, she wouldn’t have anticipated this problem. But being the head of an entire kingdom made her realize that manpower was a crucial thing to development.

The people whom she had trained for a long time had quit. She was almost exhausted to death from all the work she had to do to make up for the missing manpower.

Carla patted him on the shoulder before she let go of him. She moved to the table beside them and handed him a pile of documents. “Have a look at these and try to adapt to the current change in the political situation of Yu Sea City as soon as possible.

Find a way to solve these problems for me. Especially the one regarding the power and privileges given to women.

I know, it’s not easy to solve an issue that has been around for thousands of years. But we still have to try our best to solve it.”

“Callie…”

“Oh, one more thing. You have to handle the things that you promised Caroline! I know I’m in my prime. But they can’t just send me men every day!”

Carla exclaimed.

She was already married, but many people in Yu Sea City were still trying to entice her into having multiple partners. It was so immoral! That was why she was determined to change this so-called tradition.