The Principessa Bought a Genius Boyfriend Chapter 10

The Principessa Bought a Genius Boyfriend Chapter 10

Vincent drove to his place.

It was my third time here, but I felt completely different than before.

“Let’s get everything out in the open today.” Vincent poured me a cup of coffee.

“Isabella, I have a lot of questions to ask you.”

“Go ahead.”

“Why did you break up with me?”

“I became a burden. After thinking about it over and over, breaking up was the right call.”

“Was it because you got bored of me?”

I froze for a second, then remembered that “Bored” was the reason I gave him when we broke up.

Right after I said that, Vincent walked away without looking back.

He said heavily, “I thought you saw me as just a toy. Four years, you got bored of me, then your family fell apart, I couldn’t help you with anything, so you just dumped me.”

How could he think that?

I opened my mouth, but before I could answer, Vincent cut me off. “Even if that’s true, it’s okay.”

Like he was scared of hearing the answer, he showed his hand first.

“Isabella, I’ve already made up my mind.

“Even if I’m just a toy, I still wanna stay right here with you.”

I processed his words for a long time before I spoke, “You got it wrong.”

“Hmm?”

“That was just angry words. Vincent, I never saw you as a toy. I was serious

about us, I really loved you.”

“Why did you say it in anger?”

“Before graduation, you told your friend you’d never marry me.”

Now it was Vincent’s turn to freeze.

He thought back for a long time, and started laughing through his confusion.

“What I meant back then was, we just graduated, I wasn’t in a place to get married. Actually… I’d been looking at engagement rings for a long time, I just really couldn’t afford one.”

We went through one thing after another together.

We realized we’d both misunderstood each other completely.

How did this happen?

The root of it all was just that the gap between our realities was too big.

Vincent thought I supported him financially just because I wanted a good time.

And I thought Vincent only stayed with me because he felt obligated, because he owed me.

Neither of us could believe the other actually loved us.

Back to the present.

Vincent asked, “Isabella, why would you rather accept Marcus’ help than take mine?”

“First off, I never accepted his help. Second, it’s because I love you, I didn’t want our relationship to turn into that —”

It suddenly clicked for me.

Vincent nodded. “Exactly, I felt the exact same way back then.”

“Wait, when I confessed to you, you already liked me too?”

“Yeah, Isabella. I liked you, actually even before you liked me.

“The first day of freshmen orientation, when you told me your name was Isabella, I remembered it right away…”

Vincent’s story let me see the silly girl I was back then in a whole new light.

He’d fallen for me earlier than I did.

He just confessed a step later.

And my way of showing affection was wrong from the very start.

I used the thing he needed most to bribe him with.

That made it really hard for him to speak up.

He actually said he loved me so many times.

But no one believed him.

Everyone thought he was lying, just saying what I wanted to hear.

After a while, I believed it, and even he almost believed it too—

Did he love Isabella, or did he love her money for his grandpa’s medical bills?

After being laughed at so many times, after being reminded of the gap between us so many times, even Vincent couldn’t tell for sure anymore.

He was conflicted and twisted, torturing himself day after day.

Anyone could help him.

Just not me.

Because money would’ve changed what love really meant.

If Vincent hadn’t been so stubborn, he could’ve just coasted comfortably by my side this whole time.

But he didn’t.

And exactly because he didn’t, he was the boy I fell in love with.