Hello, Mr. Major General (1)

Chapter 95 - Promise Me

The hotel garden was no ordinary garden: it was located on the hotel rooftop, enclosed in a glass greenhouse.

The garden was beautiful at night; visitors had only to lift their heads to see the twinkling stars up above, beyond the glass ceiling. A wide variety of flowers bloomed throughout
the garden. The rainforest plants were strong and healthy.

On the ground, artificial brooks meandered through the garden, accompanied by the tinkling sound of water, digitally simulated.

Parth stood beneath the verdant leaves of a giant alocasia, his hands in his pockets. His face, adorned with
gold-rimmed glasses, was handsome and elegant; he was the type high school girls found irresistible.

Shefali no longer concealed her feelings for Parth.

Her eyes shone with her love for him.

She wrung her hands nervously as she looked up at Parth. Her voice was hoarser than usual, betraying her
agitation. “Parth, you walked into my heart in my second year of high school, and have stayed there ever since.”

Parth sighed softly, his beautiful eyebrows knitted together behind his gold-rimmed glasses. He did not want Shefali to continue; he opened his mouth with the intention of telling her to stop it.

But Shefali barged on. She said, in a single breath: “…I know you’re in love with someone else. And I know you had a girlfriend before this. I was her best friend. And because I was her best friend, I let it go. I watched over the two of you, never saying a word about how I truly felt. Every time you went out on a date with her, she would tell me all about it. Every time the two of you got into an argument, she would come crying to me. Every time she wanted to break up with you, I was the one who persuaded her not to. Yes, it was me…”

Parth’s eyes widened behind his gold-rimmed glasses.

There was a crack in his usual calm and composed demeanor.

He knew Shefali was his first girlfriend’s best friend, but he had not realised they were that close.

His relationship with his first girlfriend had not been smooth sailing, but he had cherished every moment of it, all the same. He had thought their relationship troubles were private, a secret shared between him and his girlfriend – but his girlfriend had evidently thought otherwise.

She had blabbed all about it to someone else. How could she?

Anger bubbled up within Parth. His eyes darkened, and the lines on his face drew tight.

Shefali did not miss the change in Parth’s expression. She quickly changed the subject: “…Parth, I’m only telling you all this now because the two of you are no longer together. If you were still with her today, I would
never have breathed a single word of this – not even if I was about to drown in my love for you.”

Parth lowered his head. He stared at the stretch of floor between him and Shefali.

He could see that Shefali was wearing a pair of elegant, pointed high heels, made of black leather.

“But look at the person you’re trying to date now. Does your family know about her?” Shefali’s voice was now slightly resentful. “I don’t see why you chose her over me. I was willing to go on with the rest of my life without saying anything, since you refused to open your eyes and see how much I’d done for you, how long I’d waited for you. But then you almost died at Sahyadri Mountain, and that was a wake-up call for me. If I don’t get this off my chest, I will never be happy for the rest of my life.”

Shefali paused before stepping forward. She grabbed hold of Parth’s hand, and looked up at his lowered
face expectantly. “Parth, give me a chance. Give yourself a chance to be happy. Be with me for the rest of your life – you won’t regret choosing me today.”