"Please, don't do that, Bryan." She pleaded. "Even in the future, please refrain from doing so."

  "Is it because of him?" Sadness flashed across his handsome face. His blue eyes filled with regret and pain. "I wished I could go back in time, and we're not as strangers as this is."

  Hailey meets Bryan's eyes, who are gazing at her tenderly. In the past, she wished that too. There are times she would contemplate; everything is not Bryan's fault. That's why she stops blaming him.

  The only regret she has now is how their beautiful relationship ends, which causes the heartbreak she felt.

  "I don't know why our good relationship ends up just like that, Bryan." Hailey looked at him with regret. And these regrets are the reason she was always pulled back to the past. Maybe it's time to let go or start something that would heal them both…


  "If there is something I wish to return to, it is to prevent the time where we both get hurt for what had happened," she told Bryan and added, "However, I want nothing to change or go back to the past."

  'I don't want to miss the chance I meet Vince.' Hailey thought to herself.

  She no longer wishes to go back when she and Bryan are still not engaged. She was thinking……

  How if she never accepts Bryan's proposal? Is Liam would not think of using Eva to destroy their relationship?

  Then, if that never happens, she would not set her mind to work even harder to finish Dream City as soon as possible. Perhaps she would not eagerly search for the best architect to work in her city.

  Her broken engagement is what she used as a mindset, and seriously taking her position as CEO is her way of mending her broken heart. She decided to do it by herself rather than relying on her executives all the time.

  Honestly, it helps her grow up. Visiting P Country, she was able to meet new amazing people, where her greatest adventure began. And that when she crossed paths with Vince, again…


  Everything that happens to her in Metro City, she would never trade that, even if she has the chance to change things back to where she wanted.

  She would never wish to go back in time because she doesn't want to lose the child inside her.

  And with that thought, Hailey unconsciously touches her flat stomach.

  Having this new life inside her is one of the most incredible things that happened to her after her sadness when her mom died.

  "Bryan, I'm pregnant," she told Bryan.

  Bryan feels like a bucket of ice is pouring on him. He closes his eyes as emotion floods into his heart.

  Hailey confessed she was pregnant. How he wished it was his child. For a thousand times, he dreams of this scenario. But his dream of having a family with Hailee shattered a year ago.

  At this point, the little hope he's holding in his heart that Hailey would consider him again, and they would start over, has been crushed into tiny pieces.

  After he betrayed her, his heart also aches for what had happened. Every single day, he wants to punish himself. And today……

  Is it time to give up?

  "Hail, is it really impossible for us to start over?"

  Hailey was dumbfounded by what Bryan had told her. She just confesses to him she is pregnant, which was someone else's child. But Bryan still hopes for them to forget the past and have a future together?

  It must be a joke. There's no way she'll go back to Bryan and forget her present happiness.

  "You're losing your mind, Bryan." There is a bitter smile on her lips that, in the next moment, it left her rendered speechless.

  "Hail, I regret I didn't confess my true feelings when I had all the chances before Eva destroyed our relationship. But I truly love you! Ever since you were younger, I have been in love with you."

  She pressed her lips. Hailey isn't sure how she could enlighten him at this point.

  "I'm sorry, Bryan. But I can't return the love you've offered me." Hailee heaves a long sigh before she goes on. She stares at Bryan with a faint smile on her face.

  "When Eva came into the picture, it helped me realize my true feelings for you. The love that I felt will remain as brotherly love. I tried to love you in different ways; even so, I can never turn my feelings into romantic love." She admitted.

  "Bryan, we can never start over, but only our friendship. You were still the best brother that I have. It hurts me to let you go. But I don't want Vincent to feel less because of our relationship that was built through decades."

  Bryan softens his gaze and keeps pushing back the tears that threaten to escape from his eyes as his heart was splitting in two.

  In the end, it was another man who weighed more than him inside her heart. The decades of friendship they have are no match for the man she just met, now is her lover.

  Anyway, he deserves to be hurt like this. He already missed his chances. Although he is determined to beg Hailee, the way she firmly rejected him, she's making a final decision.

  "How can you be so sure that he would stay faithful to you and no other women can seduce him?"

  Hailey tightens her jaw to hear Bryan's opinion about Vincent. The frown on her face was visible to Bryan. He knew he judged Hailee's lover, but at least he wanted to stand as a brother to her. He truly hurt her in the past, so he won't allow anyone to hurt her again.

  "You need not worry about these matters, Bryan. There is no need for another woman to tempt him. I can do that."

  Bryan is rendered speechless by what she remarks. It appears Hailee is no longer the princess he loves. She is a woman now who can make any man go crazy about her.

  "Hail, I just wanted to make sure that he won't hurt you." he smiled awkwardly with bitterness on his lips.

  "Don't worry, Mr. Anderson. I assure you. Hailee is the only woman I ever love. I would never do what you did to her before. My existence is to love her through eternity," said of the man who appeared out of nowhere.