He Wants to Buy My Heart—But It’s Not for Sale Chapter 11

He Wants to Buy My Heart—But It’s Not for Sale Chapter 11

He lifted his head and looked at me, a faint hope in his eyes.

“I want you to come back with me.”

“Impossible.”

I refused without hesitation.

“Then I’ll wait here forever.”

He answered just as quickly.

I looked at him and suddenly found it ridiculous.

“Thayer, don’t tell me you’ve fallen in love with me again.”

At my words, his body stiffened.

His eyes shifted away.

He did not admit it.

He did not deny it either.

He simply lowered his head again and fell silent.

I laughed coldly.

“Love that cheap makes me sick.”

Days passed.

Thayer still came every day.

Until Delphine found him.

—

She arrived with her pregnant belly, her makeup perfect, though it could not hide the malice in her eyes.

The moment she saw Thayer, she rushed over and grabbed his arm.

“Thayer, you can’t do this to me and our baby.”

“I don’t want anything else. I only want us to be a family. Thayer!”

Thayer frowned and tried to shake her off.

“Why are you here?”

“I came to bring you home.”

Tears streamed down Delphine’s face.

“Thayer, come back with me. The baby and I need you.”

I stood in the doorway and watched quietly.

The whole scene felt absurd.

A man like Thayer would hurt any woman who stayed beside him.

His voice turned cold.

“Delphine, I already told you. We’re done.”

“I don’t want that child. Stop clinging to me.”

Delphine stared at him in disbelief.

“What did you say?”

“Thayer, how can you be this heartless?”

—

“That’s your own flesh and blood.”

“That child has nothing to do with me.”

As Thayer said it, his gaze instinctively shifted toward me, as if he wanted to see even the slightest reaction on my face.

But I only stood there in silence.

No expression.

As if I were watching a ridiculous drama that had nothing to do with me.

At that moment, Thayer finally understood.

I truly did not love him anymore.

No matter what he did.

No matter how he struggled.

He would never win my heart back.

The obsession and hope on his face faded little by little.

All that remained was loss and unwillingness.

After a long time, he suddenly laughed coldly.

“Fine. Very good.”

“Selah, you’re impressive.”

“You think you’ll live well after leaving me? One day, you’ll regret this.”

He threw Delphine’s hand off and turned away.

—

His steps were decisive.

No hesitation.

Delphine stood frozen, then hurried after him.

Not long after, I received Thayer’s signed agreement.

He agreed to sever the mate bond.

The process went smoothly.

At the neutral council office, Thayer looked at me as I signed.

His voice carried something complicated, barely noticeable.

“Selah, I’ll say it one last time. You’ll regret this.”

I picked up the pen and signed my name without hesitation.

“I won’t.”

“Thayer, don’t ever show your face in front of me again. You’re nothing but a curse.”

I set the pen down, turned, and left the council office.

I never looked back.

After that, I stayed with my flower shop and lived a quiet, peaceful life.

I did not regret it.

The one who regretted it was Thayer.

After the bond was severed, Thayer and Delphine tore each other apart. He drank until he stopped looking like an Alpha at all.

—

One by one, Blackthorn’s human businesses began to collapse.

That part was my doing.

My father had once been powerful. The resources he left me did not need much. A few calls. A few doors closed. A few debts called in.

Thayer’s rise had never belonged to him alone.

So his fall did not either.

The Alphas he had once defeated all said the same thing.

Without love blessing him, the man was nothing.

As for Delphine, she had hoped to use the baby to win Thayer back, but she suffered complications during childbirth.

Once, I went back to visit my mother’s grave.

On my way down from Crowe Ridge Cemetery, I saw a man in a wheelchair from far away.

His back looked familiar.

I stopped, wanting to see more clearly.

But by the time I got closer, that figure had already disappeared around the corner.

I froze for a moment.

Then I shook my head and walked away.

Maybe I had seen wrong.

—

Or maybe it really had been Thayer.

Either way, it no longer mattered.

Our story had ended long ago.