Chapter 298

---- Chapter 298 Giselle was momentarily swept away by Donovan's sweet words before she suddenly came back to her senses. "Do you think you can simply erase the past by saying a couple of nice things to me?" She scoffed. "Forgiving me is your choice, but I get to decide if I still want to hold onto our relationship," he said with his arms still around her. "I'm not going to let you go just because you've given up on us." Giselle, who was already physically and mentally exhausted , didn't have the energy to argue with him any further. She was finally beginning to see through his tactics.

Ultimately, his strategy boiled down to being utterly shameless and persistent. No matter how much she rejected him or voiced her disdain, he'd simply ignore her. She hadn't even brought up how much he hurt her in the past. He behaved like a lust-driven animal with a complete disregard for her feelings. "Your tactics might work on other women, but they won't work on me," she declared as she tried to break free from his hold. ---- Instead of letting Giselle go, Donovan's desires got the better of him.

He pushed her onto the bed in the guest room and started kissing her neck in a frenzied manner. Giselle simply couldn't bring herself to be intimate with him. When she remembered that he'd gotten Anne pregnant in the past, she felt even more repulsed. She struggled against him and tried to get up. But to her dismay, he started pinning her down even harder. Donovan hadn't slept with Giselle since they decided to end their relationship . After the pair had broken up, he hadn't slept with anyone else either. Because of this, he was currently overwhelmed by lust and desire.

He didn't care about how much she despised him. On top of that, he didn't care about how she was struggling against him either. His gaze looked manic. He was panting heavily and behaving as if he were a ravenous animal. He aggressively ripped her shirt open and tried to force himself onto her in a dominant and passionate manner. He ignored the fact that she was fighting back and was fixated on getting what he wanted. Amid her struggle, Giselle lifted her hand and slapped Donovan across the face. ---- She hit him so hard that he froze the minute he felt a stinging pain on his cheek.

Subsequently, he proceeded to stare at her with a blank expression. While he was dazed and distracted , Giselle slid out from underneath him. When she got to her feet, she kicked him furiously and yelled, "Don't fucking force yourself onto me like it's some kind of kink! Get out!" Once he heard her harsh words and caught sight of how indifferent she looked, he couldn't help but think about the horrible events that she'd experienced overseas. Then, he suddenly realized that she must've been traumatized by what happened in the past. Thus, whatever he did just made matters worse.

Donovan immediately started to regret his actions . He grabbed the hand she used to slap him and placed a kiss on it. "I'm sorry. Does your hand hurt?" he asked. Giselle couldn't believe it. Instead of getting upset at her for slapping him, he was asking her if her hand hurt instead. Staring at him as though he was a madman, she yelled, " Are you out of your mind? I don't have time for your crazy behavior. Get out!" Before he could try anything else, she pushed him out of ---- the room with all her might and slammed the door shut.

After closing the door in his face, she locked it from the inside too. Donovan was once again locked outside. He couldn't force his way into the room. Hence, he ended up standing in front of her door for a couple of minutes. Ultimately , he didn't continue to bother her and turned to leave. On his way out, he noticed that the slippers she'd flung off of her feet were scattered across the floor. So, before he left, he patiently picked them up and placed them neatly by the door. He returned to his car and drove out of her neighborhood.