I ignored him and didn’t say anything.
He reach out his arm to me, but I shook off his hand, “If you touch me again, Leon Hua, I’ll scream and accuse you of indecent assault!”
“I don’t want to do anything to you, I just want to talk to you. We haven’t seen each other for a long time. Don’t you want to talk to me, too?” Leon’s tone was actually a little sad, or maybe I was just thinking too much. How could someone cruel like him could actually be sad?
“There is nothing more to be said between us. I only want you to be kind to the kid and I want to see him.”
“But how can I let you see the kid, with you giving me such a bad attitude?” Leon said coldly.
It’s a little threatening, and I was not happy about it.
“That’s my baby. Why can’t I?”
“The baby is mine, and you can see him only if I allow you to, and you can’t see him if I don’t allow you to. Such a clever woman as you should know that if you want to see the kid, you should get on well with me.”
I snorted and cursed him for being shameless.
I cursed in a very low voice but he still heard me. “Your attitude really sucks, if you go on like this, I am afraid you won’t have the chance to see Alex ever again in your lifetime!”
“You cannot be as shameless as this! He’s my son too, It is unfair not only to me, but also to him.” I said coldly.
Leon did not fight back immediately this time. As I walked toward the dining room, he just followed me.
I saw that he was going to the dining room, too, so I turned around and started to walk back. But he also turned around and started to walk. A very unpleasant word suddenly occurred to me, tail.
“Don’t you follow me.” I yelled at him helplessly.
“It’s not your place, why can you walk around here yet I can’t?” He asked me with an emotionless face.
I was speechless, even though I knew he was playing a trick.
Of course I had to go in the direction of my room, but he just kept following. He just followed wherever I went. How unfortunate I was! Why did I misread the room number? Why would I mess with him? If I had been a little more careful not to get the wrong room number, we wouldn’t have met each other at all, he would be in his own room and I’d be in mine.
“Leon Hua, you are also a man of dignity. Are you not ashamed to be such a thick-faced follower?” I turned around and yelled at him.
“I am just following my wife to protect her. There’s nothing to be ashamed of.” Leon was quite calm.
“Don’t follow me. I’m tired of seeing you.” I cried.
“We haven’t seen each other for so long. I’d like to invite you for dinner. If you say yes, I will stop pestering you and you can see Alex when he returns from abroad.” Leon said earnestly.
I actually was moved. Although I hated him for being ruthless, I didn’t really get tired of him, otherwise I wouldn’t have cried like a baby when I saw him at the airport.
But I did not want to promise him anything, because I was afraid if I spent too much time with him, I would lose my ground, I would forget how cruel he had been to me.
You just have to stay completely away from that wrong person to avoid further more hurt and entanglement and repeating the same mistakes.
“You may rest assured that I shall do nothing to you. I promise I just want to have dinner with you. If you don’t say yes, I’ll haunt you forever. I’ll come and knock at your door in the middle of the night. I mean what I say.”
I had a voice inside shouting, Say yes, say yes!
But another voice warned, Stay away from him! Don’t forgive him, he’s the one who left you when he got high!
The two voices alternated in a violent struggle, and for a moment I could not make up my mind.
“That person today is not your boyfriend. I didn’t know it at that time, but then I figured it out. The way you looked at him was not only unfamiliar but also cautious. How could he be your boyfriend? Since he’s not your boyfriend, then you are single and alone, why not accompany me to have a meal? Just be friends again.”
Leon’s tone softened a little, it did not sound so blunt and threatening any more, instead, it sounded more like a persuasion.
The little angle that kept persuading me to stay away from him finally got beaten by the little devil who’d been telling me to say yes, I based my decision more on sentiment than reason, and I nodded my head!
Leon’s eyes lit up. “What would you like to eat? Let’s eat out instead of in the hotel restaurant, let’s eat crawfish and we can drink!”
The image of the golden crawfish immediately jumped in my brain, and it had really been a long time since I last ate it! Since I already promised him, it would be the same no matter where or what we eat, so crawfish it was!
When we left the hotel, Leon led me to a Cadillac, and I didn’t whether it was a car he had called or whether it belonged to the branch company here. I sat in the back seat, and Leon sat beside me, the driver started to drive without saying a word.
I suddenly felt that I had fallen, I had made countless vows in my heart that I would talk to this person again, but with his endless entanglement, I compromised after all. I just didn’t know whether it was him or myself that I compromised to.
The place was reserved in advance, I supposed, because the driver didn’t even ask for the address. He drove us directly to a restaurant in the suburb and opened the door for us to get out of the car.
The restaurant was called Come on Shrimp, which was a professional place to eat crawfish. Leon doesn’t really like crawfish, but he knew I do.
We went up to the third floor, and there was an open roof with grapes and other plants on it, and a pavilion was built in the middle, with a table and two seats, and that’s where we ate.
The environment was certainly perfect for eating crawfish. Crawfish has long been considered unclassy and is not served at some high-end restaurants, because many upper class people think it dirty as its living environment is not clean. I used to know a lot of people who refused to eat it. Leon seemed to hold the same opinion, and the only reason why he offered to eat crawfish today was that he just wanted to please me.
It would arouse a lot of attention and suspicion if the chairman of the Hua’s Group got photographed eating crawfish in such a small restaurant.
“Well, is this place satisfactory?” Leon looked at me ingratiatingly.
“How did you know this place?” I asked lightly.
“From the first moment I saw you at the airport, I was thinking about what we were going to eat tonight. You haven’t had crawfish for a long time, so I started looking for a place and it took me the whole day to finally find this place.”
My inner voice screamed again, Don’t be impressed, don’t be fooled by one of his small gestures!
“You’re truly confident about yourself. How did you know I’d agree? If it were not for your clinging like a piece of candy, I would not have dinner with you.” I said coldly.