Chapter 5 Breaking off the Engagement

"Someone who doesn't want us together sent it. I don't know who they are, and I don't care. I just want y'all to leave me alone. Have a happy relationship and leave me alone. Have I made myself clear?"

For the first time, Ramsey's feathers were ruffled. He stepped forward and grabbed Bianca's arm. Giving her an intense gaze that momentarily rendered her breathless, he grunted.

"You can't cancel our Marriage. What about my family's company? It will go bankrupt. I will not allow that to happen."

Talking all this while, Bianca couldn't face Ramsey mainly because despite everything, her heart was still flustered when she saw him. Thinking that if she kept looking at him, she would lose her resolve to break up with him, she decisively focused her anger on Chloe. The moment she felt those hands on her, she shivered and almost moaned. But before her treacherous body could betray her, his words jabbed her in the ribs, waking her up from his spell. Going from bedazzled to extremely angry, Bianca glared at him and stomped on his foot.

Caught off guard, Ramsey let go of her and took a step back.

"Bianca!" He growled.

"Never in your life touch me like that again. You have no right!" She growled back at him, looking as wild as an angry wolf.

All he ever cared about was his family business and Chloe. Why did she have to love someone so despicable? Why is it so hard to hate this man who has cost her everything? She was more angry with herself than with him. But that anger gave her the courage to face him.

"Bianca, don't create a scene!" An agitated Chloe whispered while darting her eyes around nervously. They were beginning to attract people's gazes. If someone from the media should recognize them, it will create a lot of trouble.

"Shut up!" Bianca snapped at her, making Chloe jump with a yelp.

"You don't have to worry." She returned her icy gaze to Ramsey. "Everything else remains as promised. Only the marriage is canceled."

Done, she flipped her hair and walked past them in giant strides.

Ramsey and Chloe were so shocked by her parting words that she was gone before they came back to their senses.

"Did she just say that, or did I hear wrong?" Chloe grabbed Ramsey's arms and asked. "Does that mean we don't have to break up anymore?" Her once agitated tone swiftly became excited. With glittering eyes, she looked up to Ramsey, expecting him to be as excited as herself.

Just now, when Bianca stomped his foot, her face turned bloody. It was like a flash that stunned and terrified him. Right after that, a wave of guilt crashed on his chest. The pain of it was as real as getting pinched. The more Bianca vented, the guiltier Ramsey felt.

Am I going crazy? He asked himself.

He was in a daze, trying to sort out what was happening to him when Chloe grabbed his arm, bringing him back to his senses.

Seeing that Bianca was gone, he felt a deep sense of loss.

"I can't let her go. I must marry her." He subconsciously muttered aloud.

"What?" Chloe almost choked. "But she said she doesn't want to marry you. How are you going to make her?" She asked in a quivering voice. Her back was breaking out with sweat because of Ramsey's tone. After spending so much time with him, she knows when he is absolutely serious.

Yanking Chloe's hands off, he hurried towards the exit, only to see Bianca entering a taxi.

As Ramsey watched the taxi pull away, his heartbeat raced and he started feeling panicky.

"Ramsey,"

Chloe broke into his thoughts again. He instinctively moved out of the way before she could hold him, and her hands ended up hanging in the air, empty and awkward.

"Did you do this?" Ramsey looked down at the 5'7 woman whose head just managed to reach his chest.

"What? Do you think I did this? You think I exposed our relationship?" Chloe's puppy eyes instantly started flooding. "How will that benefit me? It's not like you will ever marry me."

Seeing her tears, Ramsey's gaze turned soft. Just like Bianca, he was never able to stand her tears. It tugged at his heart, forcing him to back down.

"If you didn't do it, then who did? Those pictures are from our vacations for the past two years. You were the one who took them. How did they end up in her hands if you didn't send them to her?"

"I... I... "

This!

Chloe was also confused.

Ramsey was really right. Those pictures weren't even on her phone. They were all kept in her cloud space. How did they get out?

"Oh, no! Someone must have hacked my account. I swear I didn't send them to her or anyone. They are not even on my phone. Someone must have hacked my cloud space. Who is trying to fuck with us?" Chloe croaked in between sniffs.

"Are you sure?"

Remembering how furious Chloe was when he told her about the marriage proposal, he found it hard to believe that she didn't do this. That she didn't send it to Bianca directly didn't mean that she didn't send it through a third party. He will definitely look into it and if it turns out that she was lying, Ramsey will deal with her.

Though they had been dating for more than four years, she knew from the beginning that he could never marry her. She is an adopted daughter of his best friend's family and has no status. Not even within her family. There is no way his father or mother will allow him to marry outside their circle...

"Ramy, you have to look into this. Someone is trying to mess with us."

And if she is right, then who could be messing with them and what do they want?

The attitude of several of his friends and associates during this period has made him realize that most of his so-called friends are fake. The moment they sniffed the problematic situation of his family business, they started avoiding him and his father. They clearly wanted to see him fail. What better way to ensure his family's bankruptcy than to jeopardize his relationship with the only person who is ready to help him?

Several faces flashed across Ramsey's mind and his heart felt heavy. Those were his friends. When did things change? Why didn't he notice until it was too late?

Luckily, Bianca is still willing to give him the money. He will first sort out his issues with Bianca, then slowly deal with these backstabbers.

Heaving, Ramsey started heading towards the exit door of the arrival terminal, leaving Chloe to literally run after him as one of his strides was like two steps for her.