Chasing The Vengeful Villainous Heiress-Chapter 83: Do you believe?

That was the whole story, the misunderstanding, and how they parted without getting to clear the air.

Valerie stared at Max, waiting to hear what he had to say but Max was incredibly dumbfounded. He was shocked. Everything he told himself till this moment were lies and the ones who caused it were...

"At some point, a few years after that, I was tempted to find you but... I decided against it." Valerie said. "I decided to simply watch you from afar. I saw the news about you, your accomplishments, and the likes and I said to myself, ’With all this, he’s become a man out of reach. I’d be shameless to simply approach him out of nowhere and after all these years of separation’." She said and lowered her head.

She twiddled her thumbs.

"I was the one who drove you away. I was the one who hurt you and caused you pain. And while you were making your life so much better, I was playing villainess and making a mess out of my life." She explained and looked up with an awkward smile. "I deserve it."

"No, you don’t." Max said and grabbed her hand. She looked at him and the serious expression on his face. What was he thinking? "I lived my life with one purpose. Just one. And that was to find you and make you suffer the pains you made me suffer. But to think that the pain I suffered from was never your fault, it makes all my effort so futile."

"What are you talking about? It was indeed because of me that you suffered, and... You’re the representative of Stewart. What’s futile about that?"

"It’s because you never cared about my position." He said, shutting her up in a confused way.

He gritted his teeth, shoved his fingers through his hair, and aggressively scattered it.

"Dammit, what’s all this?" He cussed and got up, walked a few steps forward, and then suddenly rushed back to Valerie to kneel in front of her and hold her hands. "I can’t believe you suffered like that. You made it seem like you were indeed the selfish and shallow type when you were out for me the whole time. You cared for me."

"Max, I said awful things to you."

"You didn’t have a choice." Max intercepted, once again shutting her up. "Just as you said, you couldn’t protect me so you had to push me away."

Valerie was silent. Why was he the one putting meaning to her words? She thought he would refuse to believe her. She thought he would brush it off and continue with his pursuit of revenge against her. She thought...

It was almost like he had been looking for an excuse to believe her and love her wholeheartedly again. She didn’t want to delude herself with some stupid thoughts so she closed her eyes for a moment and then asked,

"Max, why do you believe me so easily?" She opened her eyes, hoping to see doubt in his eyes but there was none. Rather, there was this tender and caring look in his eyes and a warm smile directed at her.

"It’s because I love you." He said. "And my heart can’t lie."

Valerie’s heart skipped a beat. What sort of absurd reasoning was that?

Yet, that absurd reasoning was making her heart flutter and her cheeks flushed.

"Do you believe that all I did was for your best interest? Pushing you away, that is." She asked and he nodded, resting his head on her thighs.

"Yes, I believe it." He said.

"Do you believe I actually cared for you back then and lied that I was just with you because you saved me from those girls at the auditorium?" She asked again and once more, he answered positively.

"Yes, I believe." He said. "I believe you more than anyone. I believe in you, Valerie."

"Max, I love you." She suddenly confessed out of the blue and he raised his head to look her in the eye. "I sincerely do and I..." She sniffed. "I want to be with you for the rest of my life."

"Valerie."

"I wished for a family with you." She said, beads of tears slowly slipping down her cheeks. "A happy family with you and kids that look exactly like you. I wanted to be the only one by your side, the only one you’d look at. I..."

Her words were cut short when Max crashed his lips on hers, kissing her passionately while she cried with relief and happiness.

It was finally over. The misunderstanding that gave her so much heartache. The misunderstanding that made him go insane with ambition. The misunderstanding that tore them apart.

"Valerie, there were so many things I wanted to hear from you." Max said, interlocking their fingers together. "I wanted to know why you kept shutting people out. I wanted to know if you were shutting me out for that same reason."

"Have you found your answer yet?" She asked and his eyes turned dark.

"It was those bastards all along." He said in a dangerous tone. "If it wasn’t them, I’d have had you to myself a long time ago."

"Yes, you’re right about that." She said and he looked at her, wondering what she was talking about. "Your mother said it before. If my parents hadn’t died back then, we would’ve been engaged. Our lives would’ve been tied together and we might’ve had a fairly normal love life, no struggles, no pain, and no misunderstanding."

She tapped her forehead on his and smiled.

"If they hadn’t set my parents up and got them killed in that accident, I would’ve been yours all along." She said with eyes that glowed.

Max followed her vibe. He understood her intentions with those simple words and his eyes equally glowed, giving the feeling that he was going to kill someone very soon.

Those people... They had given him enough reason to want to destroy them entirely.

"Don’t worry." Max said. "I became the capable man you always wanted. I’ll use my connections to crush them."

"Thank you." She said.

Meanwhile, Lucy got the news that something went wrong with her wedding gown and she could not use that for her wedding. She threw a heavy tantrum as she liked that wedding gown a lot. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

But it couldn’t be helped. She would have to wear something else. What mattered was that she would get married that day and to the representative of Stewart.

Unknowing to her, the guy she was dreaming of getting married to was the same guy whom she had set thugs to beat up seven years ago, and was very much dancing in the tip of their palms, Valerie and Max’s, and they were snickering at her downfall that was heavily approaching.