I Bought a Boyfriend, Then He Spent Years Looking for Me Chapter 10

I Bought a Boyfriend, Then He Spent Years Looking for Me Chapter 10

When Stella Monroe was chased away, she looked dazed and broken.

Ethan Carter was not a generous person.

He hated the rumors from back then to the bone.

Naturally, he had no good expression for Stella Monroe.

Ethan Carter didn’t usually curse.

But he was a top student.

He could leave someone with lifelong trauma without using a single dirty word.

Stella Monroe probably wouldn’t dare see him again.

“Are you okay?”

I looked at Ethan Carter.

His wounds were shallow, and they had all been treated.

“Will this affect your company?”

“Don’t worry. It’s not a big problem.”

“But Lucas Grant needs stitches.”

“Stitches are too kind for him. Hope his face scars.”

Ethan Carter suddenly laughed.

“That’s more like it.”

—

“What?”

“That’s you.”

“How long has it been since you said something that willful?”

“Say a few more. I want to hear it.”

“Screw their business. They’re all liars.”

“What else?”

“Pork prices went up again. Are we supposed to live like this?”

“Good. Keep going.”

“What overtime? I want to stay home, watch TV, and sleep.”

“…Are you complaining about me?”

“I’m not. I wouldn’t dare.”

“You’re the only one who would.”

Sunlight fell on the snow.

We bickered the whole way back.

Suddenly, it felt like we had returned to our college days.

I released all the emotions I had suppressed these past years.

As I spoke, I started crying.

“Will you wait for me?”

“I’ll pay all the money back to you.”

—

Ethan Carter panicked again.

“What are you talking about?”

“And why were you suddenly mad before?”

“It was wrong of me to pay your debt without asking, but you can’t just ignore me.”

“You treated me like a burden. How was I supposed to answer you?”

“A burden?”

Ethan Carter frowned.

“Who said that?”

“Stella Monroe…”

Wait.

Had she been driving a wedge between us?

But the screenshot had to be real.

I pulled up the chat history.

Ethan Carter looked furious after reading it.

“I wasn’t talking about you at all.”

Ethan Carter took out the chat records on his own phone.

When he told his roommates “it’s paid off,” he was talking about a batch of overdue project payments his company had finally cleared.

Only after that did the rest of those messages happen.

—

Somehow, the chat record had ended up in Stella Monroe’s hands.

With one screenshot, she had twisted the meaning completely.

“But how did she know you were going to help me pay my debt?”

“She has experience paying off debts for people.”

“So I asked her about it.”

Ethan Carter drove to his home.

It was my third time there, but my mood was completely different.

“Since we’re here today, let’s talk everything through.”

Ethan Carter poured me a cup of coffee.

“Mia Sullivan, I have a lot of questions for you.”

“Ask.”

“Why did you break up with me?”

“I became a burden. After thinking about it, breaking up seemed better.”

“Not because you got bored?”

I froze for a moment.

Then I remembered.

“Bored” was the reason I had given when we broke up.

After those words came out, Ethan Carter left without turning back.

—

His voice was heavy.

“I thought you treated me like a toy.”

“Four years, and you got tired of playing.”

“Then your family changed, and I couldn’t help with anything.”

“So you didn’t want me anymore.”

How could he think that?

I opened my mouth but hadn’t answered yet.

Ethan Carter spoke first.

“Even if that’s true, it doesn’t matter.”

As if afraid to hear the answer, he laid down his cards first.

“Mia Sullivan, I’ve already thought it through.”

“Even if I’m only a toy, I still want to stay by your side forever.”