Bonnie rolled her eyes.
Perhaps to Theo, this was an impossible question to answer, but to her, she did not even hesitate.
"If I were you, I wouldn't have chosen a dead person over the people around me, knowing that my actions would hurt them, and besides..."
She turned to shoot Theo a cold glare." Even if Roanne were still alive, you wouldn't have loved her back, anyway. Your feelings toward her now are built on guilt rather than true love.
"I can never do what you did, blaming someone else's death on yourself and sacrificing everything just to make up for that. What happened in the past will always remain in the past, and since I can’t change anything about that, I won’t make myself miserable because of this."
Bonnie sneered and added, "If I were you, this wouldn't even have been a choice in the first place.”
"Is that so?" Theo could not help snickering when he heard Bonnie's reply. He shot her a taunting glance and said, "What if Roanne was the old Jim, and Rachel was the new him? Who would you choose, then?
Bonnie furrowed her brows upon hearing this. "That's not fair! They're not the same!"
"How are they different, then?" Theo sneered. "You told me that what happened in the past will always remain in the past, and so you won't make yourself miserable over something you can't change, but..."
He lifted his head to meet Bonnie's gaze." Aren’t you keeping yourself in the past by fixating and obsessing over the old Jim? You're so drowned by your love for him that you can’t even see the fact that he doesn't love you anymore. Aren’t you doing the same thing as me? Lying to yourself and making yourself miserable over something that won't return?"
Bonnie’s words caught in her throat.
At this moment, he looked even more cold and aloof than how she had left him. He had changed into a fresh set of clothes and
was sitting quietly in the driver's seat, looking like an actual taxi driver.
Bonnie froze for a moment, then suddenly realized that she had not gotten into a taxi at all, but Jim's black Kayenne!
She was so outraged by Theo that she had mistaken such an expensive car for a taxi!
Seeing that Bonnie was silent, Jim curled her lips into a smirk and smiled at her through the rearview mirror.
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