Chapter 27: Elune’s Room
Elune was in tears.
While she didn’t fully break down and wail, she had been shedding tears for an hour since she started to pack ’my’ things.
But none of them were actually mine. Luc had given the instruction that I could - and should - take anything I need. I insisted that I would leave just with the old suit and shoes that I wore to come here, taking nothing with me, but Elune was irresistibly insistent that I take away with me the ’best of the best’ from my wardrobe.
She pleaded with me to stay. Just for another month. Just for a fortnight. Just for a week. Just for another day.
I firmly refused every time, but seeing her so sad like that made it harder each time.
I couldn’t quite understand. It was easy to see that she was a very gentle person and soft in the heart. And she was extremely nice to me earlier in the day before I had to go to the Zhen Tea Room. But it was incomprehensible that she could be so genuinely heartbroken over me leaving - someone she hardly knew.
On one hand this made me feel extremely guilty, bringing such distress to an angelic girl. On the other hand, it started to strengthen my resolve, ironically. It was a clear sign that I was needed - and wanted - as Lin Roen the CEO of the Roen Group. It did not matter who I was or what people knew about me. My position made me someone to be adored so unconditionally. It wasn’t about me at all. It had nothing to do with me.
"Miss Roen, could you please reconsider...?"
She asked me again for the umpteenth time. It was hard for me to say yet another ’no.’
I just shook my head to reject once again.
Then she finally broke down. Her hands trembling, eyes closed yet tears pouring down uncontrollably. I wasn’t good with such things, but I couldn’t just stand and watch her suffer like that.